Photo Explosion Deluxe

by Nova Development US

Product Features

• Complete digital photo studio with extensive editing tools
• 600+ professional special effects; 2,500+ photo projects
• 1-click SmartEnhance technology removes red eye
• Easily share images via email or as albums posted on the Web
• Turn photos into greeting cards, calendars, and more

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000068CO7
• Item model number: PDW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 15, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,827 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Far more than a digital image organizer and quickie touchup tool, Photo Explosion Deluxe is a massive four-CD suite designed for the photographic artist and craftsperson. With this broad-ranging package, you can capture still images from your digital camera, DV camcorder, or scanner, alter them to the very limits of your imagination, and display or print them in any way you see fit.

Photo Explosion Deluxe offers a stunning array of editing tools. We started with simple contrast and focus adjustments and then curled the edge of our photo as if it was lifting slightly from its backing mat. We added a few translucent soap bubbles in the top left corner, threw a softened spotlight on the subject's face, and placed some clouds and streaky raindrops throughout. We then selected an antique frame, titled it with an ornate script, and even added our signature at the bottom right. Although every parameter of the editing process is fully adjustable, the program can also perform a variety of automatic modifications.

After you've explored the central application, you'll want to investigate the extra three CDs for even more ideas and concepts. Here you'll find scores of artistic and fancy fonts, hundreds of miscellaneous stationery and greeting card templates, and oodles of professional-grade photos covering a wide range of subjects, from scenery and sunsets to scantily clad models. The fourth CD houses bonus software available only in Photo Explosion's deluxe version, including a utility for panorama stitching and two tools for configuring and exporting your photos to handheld computers. The final application, DVD PhotoPlay, allows you to build a slide show from selected images, burn it to a CD-RW, and play it on any CD or DVD player that supports Video CD 2.0.

Photo Explosion Deluxe is recommended to those who want to express themselves artistically through their digital photos. A fast Pentium 3 processor or above is suggested for advanced editing. --Gordon Goble

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Customer Reviews

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52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Digital Camera Owners Dream, December 28, 2002

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Dorothy McCrary (St. Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photo Explosion Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I am a computer & digital camera junkie! I love taking photos and sharing them with my family and friends via email. I also print alot of them on paper. I have had several small programs that offer some slide show options, but they can only be viewed on a computer.

When I saw this software I was hoping that it was what I was looking for, and sure enough it was.

Photo Explosion Deluxe is very user friendly. It has good photo editing features, but my favorite feature is the ability to burn a cd that can be played on your DVD! I purchased it on Christmas Eve, and on Christmas night my family was sitting in front of the tv watching a slide show of our Christmas Holiday, complete with a music background!

Each of my grown children left that evening with an extra Christmas present and memory! They each went home with a copy of the DVD!

I highly recommend this for anyone who loves the digital photo world as much as I do!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love this software ..., July 31, 2003

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Joel Grossman (San Diego, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Photo Explosion Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Bought Photo Explosion Deluxe this week, and I can't tell you how pleased I am. I own them all - PhotoSuite, Photoshop Album, PictureIt and several others - and Photo Explosion takes the cake by a mile.

It's extremely easy to use, for starters. The developers have really thought things out because it's much easier to navigate than the other programs I own - and you don't get this annoying bar along the left side that asks you a battery of unending questions like PhotoSuite and PictureIt. (Those products remind me of a DOS program where you're constantly prompted press 1 for this, 2 for that.)

And I was really surprised by the VCD burning functionality. I bought Photo Explosion chiefly to clean up photos and print them - which it does really well and with tons of beautiful options for projects and designs. But the video slide show feature is really cool. You can add music, as well, and the quality of CD it produces is much better than I've seen with other standalone programs. Other reviewers have complained that there aren't enough transitions, but I did some research on that point, and it turns out that those features require a different kind of file called MPEG 2, which explains why many of the VCDs I've made with some of the fancier programs (not Photo Explosion) have not worked on some DVD players.

Anyhow, Photo Explosion Deluxe is a great buy...and much better than the other options out there. Enjoy ...

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last Photo Editing/ Scrapbook Program You'll Need, April 7, 2005

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Julie O'Leary "mom of 2 boys" (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photo Explosion Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I just bought this thru Best Buy - could have got a better deal thru Amazon - oh well. This product is amazing and very user friendly. I really love the fact that it comes with its very own manual not a help guide you can print out yourself wasting all your paper. It does everything - the props are very realistic, the shapes & edges so cool. I have filled in very dark pictures using the watercolor feauture and made poor pictures look like works of art. Not to mention that I can create my own photomontages, collages, & very unique artistic scrapbook pages. It took me an hour to scrapbook an amazing page including fixing up photos. I will never spend money on scrapbook pages again! So much fun!!!