3D Album Picture Pro

by Micro Research, Inc.

Product Features

• Professional tools for all your digital photo needs
• 80+ spectacular Hollywood-style shows
• Complete graphic and photo editor
• Advanced photo organizer
• Produce DVD and other video files

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0001YH81Y
• Item model number: 3D-126300
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 25, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,074 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

3D-Album PicturePro is the most complete digital photo solution available. It combines 3D-Album’s unique and creative animated presentation templates with innovative tools for organizing, editing, and printing. PicturePro comes with 40 presentation themes for all occasions and moods, with 40 more available for free download. Combine animated themes with music, voiceover, and text to captivate and engage your audience. Render your photo presentation to DVD-ready video files and other movie formats. Distribute animated presentations via email, Web site, pop and play CD, VCD, SVCD, or DVD.

Use the powerful organizing tool for grouping, describing, annotating, quick fixing, and batch processing your photos. The complete state-of-the-art editing tool lets you paint, draw, decorate, illustrate, and even create photos like a pro. PicturePro also comes with hundreds of creative templates and professional layout and design tools. Print standard-sized photos, album pages, cards, calendars, catalogs, and more.

Features:

• Complete photo solution: organize, edit, present, and print
• Create animated presentations for all occasions
• Add video clips, music files, voiceover, and text
• Distribute via email, Web sites, CD, VCD, SVCD, DVD, and printed page
• Printing templates for catalogs, calendars, cards, and more

Product Description

Complete digital photo solution combines animated presentation templates with innovative tools for organization, editing, design, layout and printing. 40 animated templates for all occasions and moods, with 40 more available for download. Distribute output via email, web page, CD, VCD, SVCD, DVD, or printed page. Powerful, all-in-one, presentation, organization, editing, and printing software Creative animated presentation themes for all occasions; Easily add video, music, voiceover and text to presentations; Precision control over timing, animation and music; Combine multiple themes into one presentation; Render presentations into .avi, .mpeg, .wma and DVD ready files. Distribute output via email, web page, CD, VCD, SVCD, DVD, or printed page; Editing tools from basic touch-up to special effects; Efficient batch processing; Design templates for catalogs, calendars, cards and more; Automatic detection of digital camera for fast organization.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superior to my expectation, June 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 3D Album Picture Pro (CD-ROM)

I bought this new version because I love the photo show made by the version 2.03, hoping there is a great enhancement in the new version. The product lives up to my expectation - show styles in the new version have improved a lot! Though not all styles favor my taste, it is my choice, and there are plenty of styles to choose from. Moreover, the Picture Pro edition let me change themes easily, for example, I can paint my own book covers and design pages for the 3D flipping book, and change the room and table settings.

One new feature I like particularly is the "My Albums" list. Now, I can keep a track of my built albums (I've built a lot!) and make any change of any album whenever I want to. I don't understand why there is a need to save, as one reviewer wrote. The album I built is the copy that saved from the preview. I can make the change of the copy using the same GUI controls I use during preview. There is no need to dig into the album files. Perhaps the reviewer is commenting on the version 2.03, which cannot be applied to this version.

I am an amateur photographer, and occasionally use Jasc Paint Shop to do some preliminary photo editing works. I didn't expect that 3D-Album Picture Pro come with a great photo editor, and did not even give it a try until the last weekend when I decide to create my own book cover. Holly cow, I can't believe that an album software come with such a powerful photo editor that is even better than my dedicated editing software. Jasc's tube brush is always my favorite but making my own tube is rather difficult. In Picture Pro, I simply create an image group and then drag and drop image into the group. I am very impressed by the Picture Pro's 3D layer styles and vector illustration tools.

I clicked the book cover image in the Photo Show page, choose the edit menu, and the software brings the book cover directly into the editor where I can put my own design. I can switch back and forth between the Photo Show page and the edit page until I get a happy result.

I bought the version 2.03 about one and half years ago. I remember there was a problem with my old HP laptop (not with my desktop) with S3 video card. The software will crash after running about 5 minutes. The support told me that the crash is due to the bug in the S3 video driver and upgrading the driver will solve this problem. But S3 video card was quite old and the support from HP was discontinued. I eventually got my new Dell Inspiron with GeForce FX. Both the old and new version now run smoothly without any problem. So, before buying the software, you should have a check of your computer. A decent 3D video card such as nVidia's GeForce or ATI's Radoen is the key, no matter how fast your CPU or how much memory your have.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truely Amazing Animation Works, June 10, 2005

By 

Ken House "DvDMan" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Album Picture Pro (CD-ROM)

I must truly applaud the staff on their extraordinary animation works. The variety and originality in various 3D effects is very apparent. Being the first timer to adopt the 3D technology in my business, I'd like to share my experience as a previously upset user but turned out to be a very pleased customer -- inadequate system resources or graphic card configurations (e.g., the cheep integrated video card) are the main reason that I have had continuous problems in performance and quality. Once this has been resolved, everything turns to be very smooth and great. Many evidences of this kind of change similar to my experience can be seen in the public community forum from the 3D-Album website.



Being only moderately knowledgeable on computers, the software does require some learning curve for me. It is not a wizard-driven program for beginners. After getting familiar with necessary terminology and concepts, I found the program to be quite easy to work with. More to the point, folks at support as well as in the community forum are very helpful. I've learned a lot from them and now quite knowledgeable in this area. Fewer software products today can provide such a great and dedicated support. Good results can be seen by many examples that users have posted in the community forum, ranging from novice to professional.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't have helpful "help", February 20, 2006

By 

eye707 (long island, ny) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 3D Album Picture Pro (CD-ROM)

I've been trying all week to figure out how to get this program to put my show on a disk - any kind! It's been a totally frustrating effort; following all the cues both in the program and in the forums produced a show that I could only see on my computer that was about a 10th of the size of the recorded show and the graphics looked like I was using a Commodore 64 computer! I'm very disappointed with this software; upgrading from the Pro Platinum will cost $159; I'm hoping another program out there will show up that's more user friendly.