Customer Reviews

Canon Create-Your-Own Photo Album Pocket Sized, 3 x 3 Inches, 2 Kits (0041B009)

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I've been shopping on Amazon for about 8 years, and I've never really written a review until now -- With all the supporting reviews on other products I've bought, there'd been nothing really to add. I saw this at the local Fry's on display with the newest Canon 10-ink printer. I have a Canon i9900 so thought I'd give it a try, but Fry's had it for more than 2x the cost that Amazon did. This product worked great. THe software is very, very easy and the videos that come on the installation disk showing you how to construct the album make it very easy to figure out. Had it not been for the videos, though, I'd have been a little scared to try it. We just had twins so I used this to create a little album for my wife to carry around. In this digital age, we really don't have *albums* anymore so when you see people around, you're constantly fumbling with your phone or the little viewfinder on the camera (which doesn't work so well when the sun is out or in any bright environment). These little 3x3 albums with 12 pics with custom pics on the front and back cover are an excellent way to show off. If you have a good printer, and are careful about the assembly, they look very professional. I made my first one last night. It took about an hour including some photo editing outside of ZoomAlbum, making test prints, picking out pics (this took longest) and changing the layout around. Now that I know what I'm doing, I bet I could make one in about 10 mins. The part that takes the longest if figuring out what 12 pics to use for the inside pages and what pic to use on the outside cover!

What is really nice about this software and what makes it easy to use is that the software pretty much does it all. I used 15MP, 5MB jpg files taken by my camera and the software took care of it. You can resize the photos, crop and center them right in the included ZoomAlbum software with drag and drops, a slider bar and a couple of clicks. You can add text and borders, etc if that's your thing (but I like plain the best). Though it is very intuitive, the help and product walk-through is excellent if your intuition isn't very computer like.

If there was one suggestion I'd make it would be to allow you to select 2 pics for the cover instead of one. Since the album is 3x3", the cover is really one 6x3" piece and can fit 2 pics. I wanted to do 2 pics -- one son on the front cover and the other son on the back cover, but the software only allows for 1 cover pic. It's not insurmountable, though. I used a freeware photo editor called PhotoScape to create a single pic made of of the 2 pics I wanted use on the cover. I then used that combined photo in the ZoomAlbum software as the cover pic.

I guess it would also be cool if you could do so minor photo editing in the ZoomAlbum software like brightness or convert to black and white. Then again, it's easy enough to do that with so many other freeware softwares out there. For about $5.50 including ink, you get a professional looking photo book that you can take with you anywhere -- a great deal.

These compact 3x3 mini albums are easy to make because the software does all the work. All the materials are included. I thought the price was a little high, but I have seen this recently for quite a bit less money, so I would purchase again.

The ZoomAlbum software doesn't work with my HP9180 printer. I suppose the paper would be ok if the software worked. Looking at the ZoomAlbum website, the software hasn't been updated since 2007. No wonder it doesn't work.

This is an amazing product. Easy to use and people love the photo album when I give it to them. Very cool.

I USED THESE TO MAKE ALBUMS OF MY MINI AUSSIEDOODLE LITTER TO GIVE OUT TO EACH OF THE PUP'S NEW PARENTS. THEY ARE EASY AND CAME OUT GREAT! WHOEVER THOUGHT THIS UP IS REALLY SMART. THEY LOVED THEM!

This makes a great gift to those who enjoy organizing photos. The person I gave it to as a gift really liked it.

Ordered these to make for my grandson. He loved them! Make sure you review the folding instructions on the CD for the cover..I had a lot of trouble getting the back pages to fit correctly into the cover. Would order again, but the price is a little high.