Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe - Windows

by Corel

Product Features

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

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• ASIN: B001CXE1CW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 19, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (101 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,832 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com

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.

Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe is your complete digital photo editing suite.

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

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Intuitive Photo Editing Software Suite For The Novice., October 22, 2008

By 

TMStyles (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe - Windows (CD-ROM)

(What's this?)

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.

80 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good, but Why, October 28, 2008

By 

Richard L. Steiner (OREGON United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe - Windows (CD-ROM)

(What's this?)

The Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe program was a snap to load in my VISTA computer. It is one of very few software programs that have a good hardcopy instruction book in the box. I was pleased to find it unnecessary to download a copy of the manual from the install disk or a Corel Web site.

I worked with this software long enough to determine two things: It does a great job of organizing my photos and performing some elemental editing--red eye removal, cropping, adjusting color and etc. It will even whiten teeth and put a suntan on pale people. The next thing I discovered was how limited the program was. It has little (nothing) more than a basic capability to edit digital photos. The basic photo editing programs that come bundled with the Microsoft VISTA operating system do almost as much.

In other words, I thought the Photo Album 7 Deluxe program was good at doing rudimentary editing things that could be done in other ways for a lot less money. Now, having said that:

I started searching Amazon.com to find a photo editing program that would do more. I found and purchased Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate, a complete photo editing program that contains everything the Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe program does, but a whole lot more and it is only about ten bucks more expensive.

My review is saying two things: (1) The Photo Album 7 Deluxe program is a good one, but (2) it fills a need that hardly exists.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A major step backwards in this new version, December 6, 2008

By 

Tom Piccirilli (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Photo Album 7 Deluxe - Windows (CD-ROM)

First I'd like to say I am a long time user of Photo Album, back when it was developed by Jasc, before Corel bought it out.
I am amazed how many people have given this product thumbs up. Apparently they have not used the previous version Photo Album 6. Yes there are a few improvements like the nice playback feature of movie clips. However there are so many critical features that were eliminated in this new version 7, I can hardly give it a rating of one star.
First off, the new layout is horrid compared to Photo Album 6. The large user friendly icons and tabs for main controls were eliminated. In its place Corel decided to incorporate the main screen tabs into the left tree menu. By comparison this is more frustrating and time consuming to negotiate. It was easy to know what I was doing in Photo Album 6, not so in 7. Secondly, batch commands like renaming all photos within a folder were overlooked. Try individually renaming 500 photos from a family vacation, unless you want to spend frustrating hours doing so. In version 6, it took a matter of seconds from a conveniently placed icon. There are countless other features that were either eliminated or added for no reason other than clutter the screen. Most importantly however, there is no way to reorganize the order of photos within a folder. Go ahead and try to drag and drop an image to a new location. Corel broke this feature too, which worked just fine in version 6.
If you are like me, I didn't expect this program to professionally edit photos. There are other programs to do that, like the one Corel advertizes permanently on Photo Album, which hogs prime real estate on your screen. BTW, there used to be a feature of adding hyperlinks to other photo editing programs, now eliminated by Corel. No, Photo Album was intended to load, name and rearrange photos in an organized and efficient way to save them on your computer for easy access.
In this regards, Photo Album 6 blows this newer version all to pieces. What was Corel thinking? Did they hire part time college students to develop this product without quality review? I contacted Corel about these issues and all I got was a pleasant reply stating this is a completely redesigned version, with no information about fixing it. And I haven't even mentioned all the features broken on version 7. So for now I deleted this program and rolled back to version 6. Save your money and buy Photo Album 6. You'll be glad you did.