Customer Reviews

3D-ALBUM V2.03BY Micro Research II

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

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!!!

I posted a negative review earlier and cannot seem to retract it. Support at 3D Album responded quickly to my email. They made several suggestions. Updating my video drivers fixed my problem and now I couldn't be happier with the software.

The problem was entirely mine - nothing to do with 3D Album.

The 3D Album folks have a great product and great support (something seldom found these days).

I am extremely happy with what the program is supposed to do, i.e., to create extraordinary photo shows with amazing 3-D styles. One reviewer wrote, the program does not have a complete photo organizer that let you delete and add photos on your computer. The 3D-Album uses regular Windows file folder. You use Windows Explorer to add/delete photo files, copy/create photo folders, and prepare photo collections for 3D-Album to display. Then you use 3D-Album's photo organizer to attach text and voice to your photos, drag and drop to define photo orders, specify the photo displaying time and the text color, and etc. Because I am already used to Windows Explorer, it is easier for me to use Windows Explorer to prepare my photo files and folders, rather than learning an unfamiliar method in a new program (unless Windows Explorer cannot provide the way I want.) Because 3D-Album is meant to be simple, It does not try to do everything. It provides only features that are necessary to get your job done.

3D-Album is definitely not a product for photo management, nor photo editing or photo printing. It is for photo presenation. I never found a photo album software that brings so much fun. It adds many wonders to my boring digital photos. If you are tired of traditional 2-D slideshows as provided by many other 2-D photo album softwares, add 3D-Album to your collection. It is a truly great software package.

I have over 1000 pictures of Family History and this is my pet project, to put them into scrapbooks.3D-Album has made turned my scrapbook collection into an exciting storytelling experience and it does 99 percent of the work for you.
The program comes with about two dozen built-in presentation styles, but new ones are available from the 3d Album Web site nearly every week. And I'm talking about some very creative ways of displaying a single photo or an entire album. you can add text, background music, voiceovers, or just about anything.
There are Endless Possibilities...and a demonstration and tutorial disc came with the software too. It is not possible to recommend this program too highly. It does more, and better, than anything software I've ever seen. And it is easy and fun to use.

I love 3D-Album. Absolutely wonder and I am very happy I bought this product. There are many slideshow products out there however 3D-Album is out of the others. It is very easy, very functional, and with excellent result!

I like the feature to combine albums in different styles. An opening style provides an amazing animation at the beginning of the show. Nice transition between two albums, brilliant special effects, and great graphics with super quality.

3D-Album is particularly great for picture show on TV. I would suggest people who bought 3D-Album also get their DVD capture software. Enabling anti-aliasing effect during capture creates very good images. It also mixes the sound and music very well.

The company's website provides piles of new 3-D presentation themes that you can add to the software for free.

They have first-rate customer support. Last week, I downloaded a new style from their website and find the image in the style is flipped. I emailed them about the problem and they fixed it within an hour.

Awesome email tech support....I was looking for a program that worked with XP and that would allow me to creat a photo slide show with more than 100 pictures....This one was it hands down...very simple to use with editing pictures, adding voice and music and creating fun styles.

Bought the video capture add in, so that i could burn the picture show on a dvd....worked like a charm...

my previous program would only let you do 99 pictures per dvd...

this is an awesome program that allows up 100000 frames..

I have thousands of pictures that I've taken of my two kids, who are teenagers now. I've been looking for a way to capture and display these, so I can tell our family's story. 3D-Album and a document reader are the best solution by far.

The 3D Album has given me a huge variety of themes to display the different stages of our lives. I can also tell stories in my own voice and include them with the pictures. Best of all, I love to use the mixer and try different themes together for some albums. I have wanted to do this project for years, and now I'm having the best time putting these albums together.

I would recommend this product to anyone. It's my favorite software product.

I have been using several kinds of photo album software and was never satisfied until I find this software.
This is the most innovative album software that produces the most eye-catching and exciting results. It is very simple to use and the interface arrangement is so logical that I created my first album without reading any instruction. Despite it's simplicity, this software still comes with an excellent 30-minute tutorial CD which explains every detail in an interactive movie. The presentation style is far more than 23. Almost every week, they post a new style for free download. This is the best part of the software that I love. I find that their new styles become more and more advanced and are much better than the originally included. What you get is not just a piece of software, but also their committed service!

Louis

After reading many of the glowing reviews for this product, I purchased it for both business and personal use. Since I enjoy editing digital pictures, I was curious if this program would live up to the hype. It most certainly does! A separate disk is included for a tutorial and examples, but this may not be necessary if you have a little experience with storing and editing digital pictures and sound files.

I have been running it with no problems on an 850 mhz Dell laptop. A slower processor (depending on the video card memory) may cause the program to slow to a crawl. Once you have established a number of picture and sound files to choose from on your hard drive, it takes only a matter of seconds to create an entirely new show using this program. You can try out the various template presentations before saving. There are a number of new templates being added that can be downloaded for free.

I amazed the people I work with when I used this program as an opening at a recent meeting. I also intend to save family pictures and set them to music for showing special events. A Jimmy Buffet tune playing in the background as island vacation pictures are displayed comes to mind. You will find yourself playing with the various presentaion options, since they are fun to watch with your personal photos. Overall, this is a fun and useful program, and a good value for the price.

I use 3D-Album primarily to get new clients to preview my work
and to show some of the ways that I can service them. With the
various features of page flipping I can arrange the albums to fit the client(s) many choices.

Calvin