Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe
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Software Reviews of Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe
Customer Review: Love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Easy to use....also comes with a hardcopy instruction booklet...but I love it because I hate doing too much reading...I just want to get my photos ready to share...especially printed photos...this does the job easily without any headaches!Customer Review: Great for the Beginner...
Summary: 4 Stars
A simple, easy to use photo enhancer that also provides a great way to organize your digital photos. "Sharing" involves signing up for an online service, but much like any site (ie: Shutterfly, Kodak) is pretty straight forward and simple to use. This is a very BASIC photo editor but for the novice, it is clean, simple and the tutorial is user friendly. I loaded it on my Dell PC with Vista quite fast. This would make a good gift for grandparents or tweens just starting out. The scrapbooking pages are very simple and not very creative, they really could have put more imagination into them. Customer Review: Not for digital scrapbooking
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this only for the scrapbooking capability. It does produce album pages, however they are not very creative. Each scrapbooking template has it's own design that is unchangeable. It takes all the fun out of creating my own page. I wish it allowed add-ons to the page or even the possibility to add more text boxes. All you can change is which picture you put in which designated picture design.Customer Review: Disappointing - free programs are better
Summary: 2 Stars
I saw this as a half-priced Amazon GoldBox special and, always being on the lookout for a no-brain, photo cataloging solution that I would try this.
Mistake.
Even at half-price, Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe isn't as functional as free programs such as Picassa 3, IrfanView and others.
The program demands the full screen of your monitor and appears not to be resizeable. Many may not care about this: I do. This makes using Photo Album concurrently with other programs, such as an instant messenger, cumbersome.
The album function is passable, but certainly not superior to Picassa 3 or many7 other commercial programs. The user can add tags, captions and other information.
The "Adjust Photo" option is silly. It contains four options. Rotate Right, Rotate Left, View Photo Info - and what amounts to an advertising or another Corel program. There doesn't appear to be an option to switch this to choose another image editing program that you might prefer. I don't like vendors who incorporate advertising for other products into the product I am using.
The "Enhance" pallette offers six additional options, inluding Quick Fix, Photo Fix, Fix Red Eye, Crop, Straighten and Makeover. The last option is more a farce than a feature. It is intended to provide for blemish removal, teeth whitening and such - it doesn't work well. And, of course, there is as link to use another Corel program.
There is a limited selection of added effects such as picture frames, fake magazine covers, greeting cards and the like that you can use. The stress is on the word "limited".
Limited is a word that nicely sums up Corel Photo Album 7. It is like a sampler that you pay for, supposedly I think to whet your appetite for Corel's more expensive and allegedly more capable programs.
As I said, I got this at half-price through Amazon's GoldBox promotion. Even at half-price, it isn't worth it. Picassa 3 is free, IrfanView is donationware - and there are numerous commercial programs that provide you with much more capability.
You can safely pass Corel Photo Album 7 by without fear that you've missed anything. You haven't.
Jerry
Customer Review: All I would ever need for my digital photo needs
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm very new to this type of software-so I can't comment for those that may be demanding professionals in this area. But, from what i've seen and the little i've played with this software, I can't complain. It will probably suit any individual who just needs to maintain their own digital camera pictures. I do recommend this.
As I said, i'm not professional photog/picture editor, but this does seem to fill the need of most folks who have a PC with digital pictures stored.