Corel Custom Photo Macintosh

by Corel

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002S6WV
• Item model number: CPM10ENG0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,518 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Give your photos amazing impact with Corel Custom Photo for Macintosh. This easy-to-use photo-editing software lets you add more than 30 fun effects to your favorite pictures and personalize your projects with over 10,000 graphics. Whether you're e-mailing projects or publishing them to the Web, Corel Custom Photo gives you spectacular photos in a snap.

From Winmag®

Corel Custom Photo is a very nice and sensible packaging of two separate Corel products, Corel Photo House 5.0 (its basic, easy-to-use photo retouching tool) and Corel Project Designer (a program designed to make print and photo projects like calendars, invitations, menus, and so forth). The combination pits Corel Custom Photo against MGI's PhotoSuite III and Adobe's PhotoDeluxe, both well-established programs that perform the same basic range of functions.

Project Designer is a delight to use. A standard left pane is used to display information about the current tool or item or effect while he project itself remains center screen. There are thousands of pre-built templates to choose from and customizing, adding more graphics, photos and text are all straightforward. A very nice tabbed interface on the main screen toggles from page to page in a project, for example from the front page to the inside to the back page of an invitation. The program is straightforward, easy-to-use and very fast, but could use a wider range of selections from the pre-existing templates.

Photo House, on the other hand, while very solid and capable at what it does, lacks some of the basic ease of use combined with the range of features and power available in Adobe PhotoDeluxe or MGI PhotoSuite. It does, however, let you import Adobe effects for use within Photo House. The basic interface is very similar to that of Project Designer, with a bar on the left giving details about effects. But the overall impression of PhotoHouse is that it doesn't measure up to the two top programs in this area.

If you are already a heavy user of other Corel graphics tools, you might want to try Photo House a try just to take advantage of using an interface similar to one you already know and because the $59.95 price is so reasonable. Otherwise, we'd recommend MGI's PhotoSuite III or Adobe's PhotoDeluxe.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Didn't work!!!, December 3, 2006

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Nancy L. Mitchell "Nancy...disappointed !" (Bozeman, MT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Custom Photo Macintosh (CD-ROM)

This says that it will work on a Mac , but it wouldn't run at all on my IMac. Nancy