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From: Corel
Category: Software

List Price: ~~$39.99~~
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

65 reviews
Sales Rank: 131

Format: Dvd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: DVD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.9 x 2.1

MPN: PA7ENPC
Model: PA7ENPC
UPC: 735163122305
EAN: 0735163122305
ASIN: B001CXE1CW

Release Date: September 5, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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

Accessories:

•	Corel Painter X Win/Mac
•	Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
•	Corel VideoStudio X2
•	Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate & VideoStudio Pro X2 Bundle
•	Corel Painter Essentials 4 (Win/Mac)

What's New

Project Launcher
This exciting new tool puts the features of Photo Album 7 Deluxe at your fingertips and makes it easy to get started right away. Just click on the photo task you want to perform (Import, Browse, Enhance or Create), and the intuitive, visual interface walks you through each step, making it easy to get going.

Makeover Tools
Help everyone in your photos look their best with innovative makeover tools. Remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan!

Picture Tubes
Add flair to any photo with these fun and colorful artistic embellishments.

The Project Launcher puts the features of Photo Album 7 Deluxe at your fingertips and makes it easy to get started right away.Click to enlarge.

Remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan. Click to enlarge.

Share your photos with family and friends in email, print or on DVD. Click to enlarge.

Project templates
Choose from hundreds of creative project templates to create scrapbooks, calendars, photo collages and more. Simply select a theme, then drag and drop your photos into the template.

Greeting cards
Collages
Calendars
Scrapbook pages
Magazine covers

Special scrapbook designs by Sandra Magsaman and Smilebox

Sharing Tools
Email photos and slide shows as attachments to share with friends instantly.

Video Tools
Trim unwanted portions of video clips to focus on the action, save video frames as thumbnails and images, and incorporate video clips into your slide shows.

Features

Edit Photos
Enhance your photos with powerful, easy-to-use tools

Download photos from your camera automatically
Improve photos in one click with Quick Fix
Brighten dark photos
Fix red eye
Rotate, crop and resize
Remove blemishes
Paint on a suntan
Whiten teeth
Convert to black & white or sepia

Combine photos, video clips and music to make an amazing slide show that can be played on your TV. Click to enlarge.

Easily fix Red Eye. Click to enlarge.

Edit Videos
Download, view and share video clips

Download video clips from your camera to your computer automatically
Watch video clips as thumbnails or in full screen view
Cut the unwanted portions of your video clip
Save individual video frames as still pictures
Turn basic video clips into music videos or sentimental tributes

Get Started Quickly with the Project Launcher
Work quickly and easily with this intuitive visual interface

Click on an icon to select your task
- Import
- Browse
- Enhance
- Create
The Project Launcher walks you through the steps to get you started

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
Rate your photos to find the best ones later
Tag your photos to make them easier to find next time
Add comments to your photos to capture the spirit of the event

Make scrapbooks, calendars and more with Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe. Chose from hundreds of professionally designed templates. Click to enlarge.

Place your photos into scrap book pages and add fun artistic embellishments. Click to enlarge.

Create Photo Projects
Turn your favorite photos into special keepsakes

Select from hundreds of professionally designed templates for
- Greeting cards
- Collages
- Calendars
- Scrapbook pages
- Magazine covers
Choose photos and simply drop them into unique, creative designs
Select scrapbook designs by Sandra Magsamen or Smilebox for that special look
Decorate your photos and scrapbook pages with fun, artistic embellishments
Add fun graphics to your favorite pictures using Picture Tubes
Perk up your favorite photos by adding a frame or photo edge
Place yourself on a magazine cover

Produce Amazing Slide Shows
Show off your photos and video clips the fun way

Combine your favorite photos, video clips and video stills into a slide show
Add music and transitions to slides to make an impressive show
Share photo slide shows over email in just a few clicks
Watch slide shows with music on your TV or computer

Share Photos and Video
Let friends and family enjoy your favorite shots

Print photos of any size, including 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, wallets and more
Save photos and videos to CD or DVD for easy storage and playback on your TV
Order prints and share them online quickly with family and friends

Back Up Photos Online--Automatically
Protect your photo collection from hard drive crashes

Store your entire photo collection online with Sharpcast, an online service offering automatic photo protection and backup
New photos transferred from your camera to your computer are automatically detected and backed up online
Recover all your photos easily in case of a hard drive failure
Store as many photos as you want, for as long as you want!*

* Subject to Sharpcast user agreement. Photos will be backed up for 30 days at their full resolution. After 30 days, they will be resized to a maximum of 1600 x 1200 pixels (suitable for a 4 x 6 print). Customers who wish to maintain photos at their full resolution for longer periods of time will need to subscribe to a Sharpcast premium plan. See Sharpcast application for more details.

Product Description
The easy way to edit, share and get creative with photos and videos Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is packed with easy-to-use photo-editing features, hundreds of creative templates for photo projects, automatic photo backup, tools for creating slide shows and more! Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is your complete digital photo editing suite! Enhance your photos in an instant with easy photo-fixes and effects. Use powerful editing tools to remove blemishes, whiten teeth and paint on a suntan, so everyone looks their best! Make scrapbooks, greeting cards, calendars, collages and more using hundreds of professionally designed templates. Email, print or save your photos on DVDs. Download, view, trim and show off video clips. You can even combine photos, video clips and music to make an amazing slide show you can burn to DVD to play on your TV. Photo Album gives you all the tools you need to make the most of your photos and videos.

Customer Reviews: Read 60 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars

Missing some features from earlier versions September 11, 2008
K. Hawkins (Arlington, Texas United States)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful

I have to admit I've used this product for five minutes, but it doesn't appear to have the same features as Photo Album 4 or 6. This looks to be perfectly adequate software if you're starting from scratch with your photo collection, but if you expect it to be an "upgrade" from an earlier version of Photo Album you may be disappointed.

The earlier versions created an Access database of the photos, that you could export and have as a record of the photo file names, captions, keywords, etc. Very useful when transferring large quantities of photos (not in slideshows) to someone else who didn't have Photo Album. While that wasn't an advertised function of the package it was nice, and appears to be missing from this software.

The use of keywords for photos has been changed to using tags. Instead of being able to assign photos to keywords by clicking on the applicable keywords in a list, you now have to either retype the tags for each group of photos, or drag each group of photos to each tag.

I've written to Corel support to see if I just can't find these features, so if I do find they exist I'll edit this review.

4 out of 5 stars

Photo Album has replaced Picasa for me! October 22, 2008
Biblioholic Beth (Portland, Oregon USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Let me preface the rest of this review with a small note about me: I am fairly computer savvy, though not in a tech sort of way. Oh, and I hate reading manuals unless I have no choice. When I purchase a piece of software, I want it to be fairly intuitive - I don't mind playing for a little bit to figure something out, but if it takes me longer than 15-20 minutes, then I get frustrated. 3 or 4 of those kinds of things, and I'll stop using it and look for something easier.

So, having said that - I do like Corel Photo Album 7. I do not have any previous knowledge of Photo Album, so I cannot compare to what it used to have or do. Before installing the software, I made a list of the main questions I had as a newbie and tried to answer those questions for this review.

1. Installation - I have Vista, and installation was a piece of cake. There were no issues, and it proceeded fairly quickly. It picked up all of my photos and kept them in the same folders/files I already had them in, which was nice. I like to be able to find things, and already having some type of organization in place, I didn't want to have to re-do it.

2. Navigation - The interface is fairly clean, almost like a safari-type. The left side has the majority of the navigation tools, with a few small buttons at the top. The majority of the screen is taken up with the photo screen. There are four categories: Home, Share, Enhance, and Create. These are similar to folders, and when you click on them, they open to reveal further options.

3. Ease of use - It is pretty intuitive. This entire review will come from having not opened the manual, for those of you who tend to be like me. It took me a bit to figure out that I couldn't just burn a CD of photos...I have to create a "show" with the program first. But that is pretty easy to do, and it doesn't have to be complicated - it's just an extra step.
I will be examining the manual to see if it's possible to "fix" more than one photo at a time...for example, when my photos imported, there were several that were sideways (I had just loaded them). The program did not automatically fix that, and it would be nice to be able to highlight and correct several at the same time, rather than one-by-one. I also wish that there was a small pop-up dialogue box that would give a brief description of what the option does when the pointer rests on it.

4. Comparison to Picasa - I have been using Picasa to store/edit my photos for the last couple of years. I like *free* and it worked for my needs. It's a very easy program, so I was curious how they would compare. I assumed I would prefer Picasa, but surprisingly, I prefer the Corel. There are a few more features that I really enjoy with the Corel.

5. Features - As I said at the beginning of the review, I have no prior knowledge of any incarnation of Photo Album. I love, love the Quick Fix...it's much more accurate than Picasa's and requires less extra editing. I also really enjoyed playing with the "picture tubes" - little pictures (almost like stamps) that could be inserted into photos. The projects in the Create folder will take quite some time to explore, but give a good representation of what most hobby-type photographers would want. You can create Smilebox shows, scrapbook pages, calendars, and more. I'm looking forward to working on Christmas gifts with a couple of them!

So, there you have it. My review. Again, I'm not a tech person, so this is purely amateur-based, but I plan on keeping the Photo Album installed and using it as my primary photo organization program.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Easy To Use Software October 22, 2008
Theresa M. Studer (Hopedale, MA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

I received this product today and loaded it with amazing ease. After playing around with it and making different projects I find this to be a great beginners photo editing program for those that are just starting out with a digital camera. It really makes some great scrapbook pages and you can add all kinds of frames, graphics and such to your project. I love the Magazine photo page. It is so cute putting the kids pictures up there and jazzing them up.
I do also own Adobe Photo Elements and a Kodak program and have to say that this Corel's program is so much better. I like the Kodak one but it doesn't come with all the little do dad's that this one does and Adobe's program is just too far advanced for the average user. If you are considering one program to buy for editing photos I would pick this one hands down. Reasonable price, ease of use and so many different projects will delight everyone in the household.

4 out of 5 stars

For the price a good solid program, some minor annoyances October 23, 2008
Water Monkey (Santa Clarita, Ca.)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Photo Album 7 is a nice little program for those who lack the time and/or desire to edit photos idividually. It is great if you do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on either the CorelDraw suite or one of the many versions of Adobe CS3.I am a former user of the CorelDraw suite who has coverted (reluctantly) to the Adobe suite of products. So you might want to take my criticisms with a grain of salt.

Photo Album is one of those pieces of software that I call 80% software. What I mean by that is Corel has scaled down the complexity of their PhotoPaint software to fit the needs of about 80% of the general users. Like many software publishers Corel realized the majority of users did not want a full photo editing suite. The basic user wants to be able to have one step fixes to exposure, be able to crop, and then do some cutesy tricks with their photos. For that Photo Album is great.

The first time I opened Photo Album the software immediate started to index all my photos. Since I have over 25000 images in my My Documents folder this took quite some time. I was not to thrilled with the way Photo Album organizes the photos. One of the things it does is to place thumbnails of all the images in a strip at the bottom of the program. When dealing with a large number of photos it becomes difficult to search through them.

After the indexing was finished, I selected a few photos I had from a recent trip to the beach. I selected these photos specifically because I had already edited them in PhotoShop and printed them. I took original unedited versions of these photos and ran them through Photo Album. I first used the "Quick Fix" feature to see how they would be altered. Whilr the Quick Fix feature did deepen some of the washed out colors, I did find that it did not seem to do as good of a job as Adobe CS3. Overall though it was fine and Photo Album allows you to make some adjustments to saturation and darkness as well as some other basic levels (but nowhere near the control as the expensive suite give you).

I did find the randomize button a little goofy within the Quick Fix. Basically the randomize button is suppose to shuffle the sliders for the colors, hue, saturation, etc. and show you what the photo would look like. I guess this is a fun way to see how the different levels affect your photos.

The makeover tools are preset tools that will help portraits look better. The Blemish tool will place a skin tone dab of color over an area (presumably a skin defect like pimples or wrinkles) with a blemish. The toothbrush can be used to whiten areas and is not restricted to just teeth. The suntan will darken an area to give it a deeper tone. From a cursory test run these tools did function decently.

Photo Album also comes with some fun things that Corel hopes will entice you to buy this program. Picture tubes is a way to place a repeating GIF image on top of your photo. You can add from a host of GIFs already in Photo Album such as flames, flower, butterflies. This can be a liitle goofy, but can also serve the purpose of hiding unwanted areas of the photo.

You also have the ability to create greeting cards scrapbooks and calendars (plus more) from preset templates. If this is something you would want to do, then this feature alone may make this program worth while. I don't do any photo printing from home, I use one of the online companies for printing (it tends to be cheaper and better quality). I have the ability to create bound picture books and calendar that look like they were done professionally, so for me this would not be a feature I would use.

Overall, for this price I don't think any beginning photo bug could go wrong buying this. There are enough basic feature to keep you entertained and it is by no means overwhekming to learn. In fact, most people will probably not even need to open the manual.

4 out of 5 stars

An Intuitive Photo Editing Software Suite For The Novice. October 22, 2008
TMStyles (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I had little photo editing experience when I used "Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe". I found this software suite to be an excellent digital photo editing tool for basic users. It allows novice users to perform complex or seemingly impossible editing tasks with little more than intuition and this tool. It is not a resource designed for the advanced user or photographer who needs more sensitive and professional tools.

It allows the user to easily organize, sort, edit, share, retouch, and, in general, explore creatively with your digital photo file. It guides the user in linking music with slide shows and video presentations, including song selection and music synchronization.

This suite is simple and intuitve for any user in my estimation. It loads easily and its features can be addressed through drag and drop icons in a fairly user friendly manner. I found the retouching tools to be the most useful as well as the most fun element for me in my explorations. All the standard retouching tools are available including erasing blemishes, whitening teeth, eliminating red eye, and even a painting on a suntan tool.

The intuitive interface allows easy organiztion of your photos from sort, find, search by various identifiers (name, text, date, etc.)to editing and sending. There are a large number of project templates (calendars, scrapbooks, collages, etc.) that I did not explore. Lastly, the working with videos section seems equally simple and self-explanatory but I have not done any video editing yet.

All in all, many of the features of "Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe" can be found in freeware or among resident tools on some computers. But this software suite has combined a large number of useful digital photo and video editing tools into one simple user friendly package. Believe me when I say I enjoyed several hours exploring many of its features and I am definitely a novice at photo editing. I recommend this product for what it does and how it does it.

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