Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $35.99

Features:

• Organize Photos--Sort and find your photos quickly, Search photos by text in captions, tags or filenames, Sort your photos by date, file, name or rating
• Project Launcher--get started right away with just a click on the photo task to perform (Import, Browse, Enhance or Create), and get walk through step by step instructions making it easy to get going
• Project templates--Choose from hundreds of creative project templates to create scrapbooks, calendars, photo collages and more including scrapbook designs by Sandra Magsaman and Smilebox
• Sharing Tools--Email photos and slide shows as attachments to share with family and friends instantly
• Download photos from your camera automatically as well as download, view, cut unwanted portions, and share video clips

Customer Reviews:

Well-rounded basic photograph organizer and editor [Posted on 2008-11-13]
I think a lot of the negative comments regarding Photo Album 7 exist because the market has been fairly well dominated by the Adobe products (Elements 7, Lightroom 2, and CS4) as well as Google's free Picasa. However, for those who are loyal for whatever reason to Corel, will find this to be a well-rounded basic program for both organizing photos and editing.

The organizer is not too different from other competitors, giving the usual ability to use tags and ratings. The editor is more task-oriented, streamlined version of its competitors. I find this to be what most average consumers need. Power users are already loyal to Adobe CS4. Those who like to be power users but don't want to spend the money on CS4 will already be using Elements 6 or 7. Picasa, however, is free and is definitely a worthwhile organizer and basic editor.

In the end, I think those who are not tech savvy or serious photographers will enjoy this piece of cohesive, all-in-one software solution.

Easy-to-use, basic bundle of common photo functions. [Posted on 2008-11-13]
Chances are good that if you frequently use Photoshop or Corel's own Paint Shop Pro or Photo-Paint, you will both want far more editing capabilities and not care for some of the features that are bundled with this software suite. I consider myself to be a fairly serious and adept amateur photographer as well as an expert computer user of graphics software, and so the limited (albeit very easy-to-use) photo editing functions and options to help you organize/store/archive your photos was of no use to me. However, all of the other bells and whistles novel features that let you use your photos in hundreds of pre-made templates to create your own greeting cards, calendars, and even fake magazine covers (which can be a real hoot to print and give to friends... and this opinion comes from an adult; kids will find it entertaining as well) made this package worthwhile. The only other software bundle that I have previously used to select pre-made templates to create greeting cards (especially with the holiday season coming up) and calendars was the software that is bundled with HP Photosmart printers - ArcSoft software combined with HP's own basic software that lets you organize your photos and perform basic editing; the variety of templates included here far exceeds the variety that is included in the software bundled with those photo printers.

As mentioned, my one main gripe is the limited photo editing/retouching abilities of the software. Otherwise, it would truly be a nice one-size-fits-all package. But the easy-to-use retouching features such as being able to whiten teeth, add a tan, and remove skin blemishes was, not too long ago during the days of film cameras, not always easy to do for the average casual photographer. I, personally, would rate this software 4 stars. But for a package that the whole family can use without having to resort to far more complex (and costlier) separate dedicated software to perform all of the different photo editing, organizing, file management, and CD/DVD burning functions, it deserves 5 stars!

Excellent Product with Superb User Guide  [Posted on 2008-11-13]
Photo Album 7 is a great product with an exceptional user guide. It is fun to use and allows me to do so much more with my digital photos.

This was the first "independent" photo product I have used. I have a digital camera and while it came with software to edit pictures it is not nearly as good as this product. I really did not use my other photo albums because they were not easy to use.

When I first got Photo Album 7 I loaded the software and was able to figure a lot by myself. The software is easy to use. There is a great help system as well. Some of my favorite features are "quick fix" which automatically improves the quality of photos and photo fix which allows you to manually do this while displaying a before and after picture so you can see the results of the changes made. Other features allow you to remove blemishes, red eye or add a tan to a person. Another fun feature is the ability to change the photo to black and white or Sepia.

I then decided to look at the User Guide, which on page 7 lists "Workflow Tips" which is a diagram showing five key features of this product. The features are, Download and organize, Edit and enhance, Create, Share and Protect. The next two pages of the guide describe these features and tell you where in the guide you can find them. Additionally there is a great index in the back of the guide. The user guide is full of drawings and pictures which give great explanations on how to use Photo Album 7. Since I am a first time user this information was extremely helpful. I was able to do so much more.

My digital camera allows me to take short videos and now I can view these with the software. You can also create photo shows that I have yet to do but plan to once I have the time. A create button in the software allows you to make calendars, greeting cards, collages and a bunch of other creative things.

Photo Album 7 is a product that will give me and my family a chance to add so much to the photos taken on my digital camera. I am looking forward to all it has to offer. This is a great product and highly recommended.

Very Good for What it is [Posted on 2008-11-13]
I'm a Photoshop user, have been since version 4 and have faithfully upgraded every year all the way through CS3 and very soon I'll be upgrading again. Yes, Photoshop is a complicated program with a steep learning curve, but I've you've lived with it as long as I have you don't think about it. So, basically I wasn't all that interested in Corel Photo Album 7, as I didn't see what it could possibly have to offer me.

Yes you can whiten teeth with few clicks, but for me, I do what I have to do in Photoshop with such speed, what's a click or two here or there. And I have my photos organized just the way I want, thank you very much.

But I did install the software. That went without a hitch, took about six or seven minutes. And then I played around with it and I must admit I like the quick way you can align you're photos if they're not straight, it beats Photoshops rotating tool all to heck, but I don't think I'd be doing much photo retouching or editing with this program.

But my better half the writer, who takes bazillions of photos with his iPhone and his Cool Pix, just loves this program. He does not have Photoshop on his computer, hates it, says it bloat ware. He's been doing photo editing with Vista's built in software and he likes Photo Album 7 oh so much better. He says it's intuitive, easy to use and that he does everything he wants. And that caused me to reassess this program. I wasn't going to give it a very high grade, but after listening to him I see that Corel didn't make the program for people like me, they made it for him and all the people out there who doesn't want to shell out hundreds and hundreds of dollars for Photoshop and believe me, I've dug very deeply into my pockets over the years to stay current with Photoshop. So, from that point of view, this really is a five star program.

Nice Photo Editing Program [Posted on 2008-11-13]
This is a very nice little photo editing program that allows even the novice (me) to fix photo faux pas without spending hours poring over a manuel or a help screen. Wanna whiten teeth, no problem and it looks good too. Wanna add a suntan, you can do that easily as well, though that doesn't look all that good. Wanna make a calendar or a fake magazine cover, you can do it with Corel Photo Album 7 and you can do it without reading the manuel. You can make greeting, birthday, Christmas or any other kinds of cards too, so no more shopping at the Hallmark Store for that perfect card, because you can design one just the way you like.

Again I'll say it, this is a nice little program that does just what I want it to do, plus it automatically organizes your photos, I had almost five hundred photos on my computer and the program had no problem with them. I like the way I can turn a photo into black and white or sepia without any effort and I like the automatic color enhancement. So far everytime I've asked the program to automatically fix the color it's improved the photo. I don't see how anyone could go wrong with this software.

Oh yes, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the excellent redeye removal (did I say that right) that this software does. That's way cool. Nobody wants their little darlings to look like little devils.

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