Photo Explosion

by Nova Development US

Product Features

• Capture photos from digital cameras, scanners, and photo CDs
• Extensive editing features including SmartEnhance technology
• Use automatic or advanced manual control for photo effects
• Create photo albums, greeting cards, Web sites, and more
• Special discounts from Club Photo on a variety of unique items

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000068CO6
• Item model number: PHW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 15, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,469 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Turn ordinary photographs into memories you're sure to cherish with the next generation in consumer photo editing software.

Photo Explosion, from the makers of the #1 selling Art Explosion graphics line, breaks new ground in its category by offering brand new features not found in existing photo editors, as well as an enormous content library and an unprecedented number of customizable projects. No one has more experience than Nova when it comes to ready-made greeting cards, T-shirts, scrapbooks, business cards, stickers and other creative projects. And Photo Explosion's huge selection of spectacular projects sets it well apart from simple photo editors.

Edit • Get photos from digital cameras, scanners, CD-ROMs and online processing services. • Capture stills from digital cameras, web cams and DV camcorders.

Organize • Create an unlimited number of photo albums. Even include videos and audio files. • Find photos fast.

Enhance • Add unparalleled special effects. • Balance color and correct red eye. • Make use of a huge variety of painting tools. • Add backgrounds, frames, props and balloons.

Share • Print your photos using any one of dozens of formats, including contact sheets and thumbnails. • Create sensational projects - Albums, scrapbooks, certificates, greeting cards, posters, postcards, T-shirts and more! • Built-in e-mail support makes it easy to send photo projects. • Multimedia web projects. Even add music and video!

Features: • 500+ Special Effects • One-Click SmartEnhance Technology Removes Red Eye • Turn Photos into Calendars, Greeting Cards, Keepsakes, and More • Contains Powerful Photo Editing Features • 300+ Fonts for Complete Customization

Product Description

Take Digital Photography to a Whole New Level withPhoto Explosion!Product InformationTurn ordinary photographs into memories you're sure to cherish with the nextgeneration in consumer photo editing software.  Photo Explosion from themakers of the #1 selling Art Explosion graphics line breaks new ground in itscategory by offering features not found in existing photo editors as well as anenormous content library and an unprecedented number of customizable projects.Nova has the experience when it comes to ready-made greeting cards T-shirtsscrapbooks business cards stickers and other creative projects. And PhotoExplosion's huge selection of spectacular projects sets it well apart fromsimple photo editors.Easily capture photos from your digital camera scanner photo CDs and more.Enhance your photos with millions of creative combinations including 500+sensational special effects like oil paint emboss warp and more.  Itincludes 600+ frames props and borders along with text effects and 300+ fonts.Build on-screen albums for every occasion. Sort photographs and search withlightning speed. Improve your photos with one-click SmartEnhance red-eyeremoval and a full array of easy-to-use photo editing tools. You can turn yourphotos into lasting memories with unique custom photo layouts fix old familyphotos e-mail photos in a single click and so much more.  Your completedigital photo studio! Here are just a few of the unique keepsake possibilities: Greeting Cards - Holidays Special Occasions Announcements and Invitations. Matching Sets that include Gift Tags Labels Scrapbook pages and more for Special Occasions. Calendars - Weekly Monthly Multi-Month and Yearly.  Insert dates automatically with notations. Web Projects  - Web Albums Web Slide Shows Web Cards and Web Pages. Trading Cards Photo Frames Banners Flyers & Posters M

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great results for novice users, December 17, 2003

By 

Bruce E. Stone (Norfolk, Va United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photo Explosion (CD-ROM)

Photo Explosion is a very easy to use, yet powerful, photo editing program. I use this program more than any of my higher cost photo editing software. It's easy to change the intensity, tone and color saturation of your digital pictures as well as apply a wide variety of fades to the edges of your pictures.

I've had several people comment that pictures that were edited with this program look better than photos that they had taken at professional studios.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Theres better out there, January 21, 2004

By 

john b (Concord, NC) - See all my reviews

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

I got this with high hopes and...well, I think I set my hopes too high. Maybe I expected too much.

I have only been getting into digital image editing in the past two years and this was the place I had picked to start from. I have a digital camera and scanner and use them both to get images to my computer and had hoped that this software would give me a great deal of choices in dealing with those images. Not so.

For one, the cloning tool is incredibly difficult to use. It is not intuitive (nothing in this program is) and often you have a hard time understanding where you are cloning from. The menu buttons with this tool, as with others, are set so far out of the way that they are not easily found (bottom left corner whereas the tool options are in the top left- also that button is very much the same color as the background, making it difficult to spot). I do a great deal of air-brush type effects in my pictures and it took me 1.5 hours to brush out one thing in a picture with this software. In comparision I used a different program (PSP7) to do something similar in ten minutes.

The rest of the options are equally as riddled with problems. Some of the filters and things that can be applied to the picture don't seem to work as well as other programs I have seen. The standard effects often come out buggy or misapplied. I have seen the Sepia filter skew an image a few times, for instance. The Dell imaging suite offers more choices and better results in that area. The warp tool is rigid and there is no chance of doing anything artistic or comical with it (no oversizing mouths like caricutures here).

The overlay function is either a)non-existant or b)so hard to find that I just didn't see it. I was trying to meld two pictures together and could get no results with either trimming the photo to try and fit or making it transparent to set it over the other.

It does capture images well though. It fixes red-eye nicely too.

For those who do not need a high-powered tool, this is perhaps your best bet. For those who want something that will allow them freedom to do with their photos as they wish, I would suggest something more powerful. The up in price is worth it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A whole lot of fun., September 26, 2004

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Banned for life (Earth) - See all my reviews

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

I disagree with other reviews. Up until recently, I was using a computer with, believe it or not, Windows 95. With only 32MB ram. I had a need to be able to do image editing, and this program has much, much less of an intimidation factor. Once a person learns the "SmartSelect" function, they can cut out very clean, very neat images, transform them into "objects", and merge elements from other photos. Once a person gets the "hang" of using the various effects and selection tools, no one will even know you're not using Photoshop Elements. The best thing, the absolute best quality to this program is adding text, it makes it one of the easiest things to do, move it around, add shadows, color gradients, textures, etc, etc. It isn't for very, very serious artists, but for the average person or even a person who merely likes to play with their photos and share them, this is a absolute blast. Every picture I do is great fun, and never looks sloppy.