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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: It is nice but not very practical, you cannot add or delete pictures, it is not easy to use, it takes a lot of space. PhotoJam 3 does the same and maybe more and it's more versatile, easier and cheaper!
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Summary: Wedding Album
Review: Recently, my youngest son married and we have pictures and a musical recording from his wedding. I was able to put both pictures and wedding music into a 3D-Album and share it with all of my family back home. With all the themes available, it was easy to pick and choose the ones that captured our son's wedding the best. I am so happy to have this software for my digital pictures, I want to recommend it for everyone.
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Summary: Awesome Product!
Review: Simply put, this is an amazing piece of software! I bought it to help spruce up my 1000's of digital pictures taken over the last few years. There are literally dozens of templates for the various 3d slideshows. Even better, the 3d album website has new templates every month or so! What a great way to keep these slideshows interesting! After buying the program, I decided to purchase the VCD/DVD add-on component from the manufacturer. This allows me to create videos that play in most set top DVD players. Neat. It is important to note, however, this add-on is an additional 20 bucks, plus shipping. But, if you have a CD or DVD burner, it is well worth the extra money to have this option. I did have a problem early on with the quality of the photos this program produced (looked like wet paint), but after visiting the 3d-album website, it was an easy fix. In other words, if you are not getting VERY high quality output from your slideshows, then it is not the software, but something on your system. My ATI card needed an adjustment in the Open GL settings. Easy, and now it works perfect. Overall, this program should appeal to anyone that has a digital camera, or digital images on their computer. It is easy to use, produces awesome slideshows, and has some customization as well. I'm a semi-pro photographer as well, and I normally use Sonic Foundry's Vegas 4+DVD for my slideshows for paying customers. As another reviewer wrote, this version is designed for personal use only (makes sense, at this price), but the manufacturer is now offering a pro version for considerably more (250 or so). However, I'm sure you could make up the price difference in only a few videos. But, I'm willing to bet that 99% of the users who buy this software just want it because it's a neat way to display their digital photos. What are you waiting for? Buy it and have FUN!!!
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Summary: Full Speed Ahead
Review: This is by far the best photo album software on the market. It took less than 15 minutes to learn to make professional looking photo albums. the strongest pont of this software is its ease of use, and great finished product.
Your albums come to life with superior graphics, special effects and soundtracks. The special effects and style variations are a little limited,but the only other limitations are your imagination, and the battery charge on your digital camera.
so buy an extra battery, because you will be taking a lot more pictures than ever before.
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Summary: Photo resolution (sharpness) degraded by software
Review: This software has promise. There will be a new version (around $150 retail coming out) that fixes the current problems with this version. Many of the displays are fun (although some are juvenile and others make photos difficult to view). The 3-D animation comes at a price; if you are satisfied with image quality that is about 85% of what you started with in your photos, you will love this software. Make sure that image degradation is alright with you prior to buying the software. A way around this problem is to choose an animation display that does not move the photos around very much, and also choose one that creates a small image size. In those instances the photo will be sharp. My expectations were that the photos would be displayed at the same size and with the same resolution as existed when previewed with Windows or in a software editor. Unfortunately, with my high-end PC and monitor, the results were not even close to what I was looking for which was a faithful rendition of what appears in non-animated photo display software products. And yes, my Open GL and monitor are set to the correct setting per my numerous e-mails back and forth to their excellent customer support representative. If your expectations are moderate or you aren't concerned with an absolutely sharp image when weighed against the ease of album creation and distribution, this software is for you, especially at this price. Since, as I've mentioned, my expectations were different, I am disappointed with 3D-album's performance.
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Summary: Photo resolution (sharpness) degraded by software
Review: This software has promise. There will be a new version (around $150 retail coming out) that fixes the current problems with this version. Many of the displays are fun (although some are juvenile and others make photos difficult to view). The 3-D animation comes at a price; if you are satisfied with image quality that is about 85% of what you started with in your photos, you will love this software. Make sure that image degradation is alright with you prior to buying the software. A way around this problem is to choose an animation display that does not move the photos around very much, and also choose one that creates a small image size. In those instances the photo will be sharp. My expectations were that the photos would be displayed at the same size and with the same resolution as existed when previewed with Windows or in a software editor. Unfortunately, with my high-end PC and monitor, the results were not even close to what I was looking for which was a faithful rendition of what appears in non-animated photo display software products. And yes, my Open GL and monitor are set to the correct setting per my numerous e-mails back and forth to their excellent customer support representative. If your expectations are moderate or you aren't concerned with an absolutely sharp image when weighed against the ease of album creation and distribution, this software is for you, especially at this price. Since, as I've mentioned, my expectations were different, I am disappointed with 3D-album's performance.
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Summary: excellent software
Review: Top quality software with top quality support
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Summary: How do i get music onto the flip album?
Review: Very nice program, I am enjoying using it but I would like to know how to add music from my hard drive or a cd? Do I need to buy a MP3 player to add music? Also, can the flip album be copied onto a picture cd? thanks. eddie
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