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Summary: Awesome Product!
Review: Simply put, this is an amazing piece of software! I bought it to help spruce up my 1000's of digital pictures taken over the last few years. There are literally dozens of templates for the various 3d slideshows. Even better, the 3d album website has new templates every month or so! What a great way to keep these slideshows interesting! After buying the program, I decided to purchase the VCD/DVD add-on component from the manufacturer. This allows me to create videos that play in most set top DVD players. Neat. It is important to note, however, this add-on is an additional 20 bucks, plus shipping. But, if you have a CD or DVD burner, it is well worth the extra money to have this option. I did have a problem early on with the quality of the photos this program produced (looked like wet paint), but after visiting the 3d-album website, it was an easy fix. In other words, if you are not getting VERY high quality output from your slideshows, then it is not the software, but something on your system. My ATI card needed an adjustment in the Open GL settings. Easy, and now it works perfect. Overall, this program should appeal to anyone that has a digital camera, or digital images on their computer. It is easy to use, produces awesome slideshows, and has some customization as well. I'm a semi-pro photographer as well, and I normally use Sonic Foundry's Vegas 4+DVD for my slideshows for paying customers. As another reviewer wrote, this version is designed for personal use only (makes sense, at this price), but the manufacturer is now offering a pro version for considerably more (250 or so). However, I'm sure you could make up the price difference in only a few videos. But, I'm willing to bet that 99% of the users who buy this software just want it because it's a neat way to display their digital photos. What are you waiting for? Buy it and have FUN!!!
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Summary: Excellent product for showing pictures
Review: I love 3D-Album. Absolutely wonder and I am very happy I bought this product. There are many slideshow products out there however 3D-Album is out of the others. It is very easy, very functional, and with excellent result! I like the feature to combine albums in different styles. An opening style provides an amazing animation at the beginning of the show. Nice transition between two albums, brilliant special effects, and great graphics with super quality. 3D-Album is particularly great for picture show on TV. I would suggest people who bought 3D-Album also get their DVD capture software. Enabling anti-aliasing effect during capture creates very good images. It also mixes the sound and music very well. The company's website provides piles of new 3-D presentation themes that you can add to the software for free. They have first-rate customer support. Last week, I downloaded a new style from their website and find the image in the style is flipped. I emailed them about the problem and they fixed it within an hour.
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Summary: Photo resolution (sharpness) degraded by software
Review: This software has promise. There will be a new version (around $150 retail coming out) that fixes the current problems with this version. Many of the displays are fun (although some are juvenile and others make photos difficult to view). The 3-D animation comes at a price; if you are satisfied with image quality that is about 85% of what you started with in your photos, you will love this software. Make sure that image degradation is alright with you prior to buying the software. A way around this problem is to choose an animation display that does not move the photos around very much, and also choose one that creates a small image size. In those instances the photo will be sharp. My expectations were that the photos would be displayed at the same size and with the same resolution as existed when previewed with Windows or in a software editor. Unfortunately, with my high-end PC and monitor, the results were not even close to what I was looking for which was a faithful rendition of what appears in non-animated photo display software products. And yes, my Open GL and monitor are set to the correct setting per my numerous e-mails back and forth to their excellent customer support representative. If your expectations are moderate or you aren't concerned with an absolutely sharp image when weighed against the ease of album creation and distribution, this software is for you, especially at this price. Since, as I've mentioned, my expectations were different, I am disappointed with 3D-album's performance.
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Summary: Superstar Software
Review: I have over 1000 pictures of Family History and this is my pet project, to put them into scrapbooks.3D-Album has made turned my scrapbook collection into an exciting storytelling experience and it does 99 percent of the work for you.
The program comes with about two dozen built-in presentation styles, but new ones are available from the 3d Album Web site nearly every week. And I'm talking about some very creative ways of displaying a single photo or an entire album. you can add text, background music, voiceovers, or just about anything.
There are Endless Possibilities...and a demonstration and tutorial disc came with the software too. It is not possible to recommend this program too highly. It does more, and better, than anything software I've ever seen. And it is easy and fun to use.
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Summary: How do i get music onto the flip album?
Review: Very nice program, I am enjoying using it but I would like to know how to add music from my hard drive or a cd? Do I need to buy a MP3 player to add music? Also, can the flip album be copied onto a picture cd? thanks. eddie
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Summary: I am beggining to like it
Review: At first glance, I found 3D Album difficult to use and unpractical, but now that I am discovering its pros I am beggining to like it. Picture quality and 3D presentations are spectacular! Maybe I'll go to 5 stars once I learn to use it 100%.
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Summary: It does what it is supposed to do, superbly !
Review: I am extremely happy with what the program is supposed to do, i.e., to create extraordinary photo shows with amazing 3-D styles. One reviewer wrote, the program does not have a complete photo organizer that let you delete and add photos on your computer. The 3D-Album uses regular Windows file folder. You use Windows Explorer to add/delete photo files, copy/create photo folders, and prepare photo collections for 3D-Album to display. Then you use 3D-Album's photo organizer to attach text and voice to your photos, drag and drop to define photo orders, specify the photo displaying time and the text color, and etc. Because I am already used to Windows Explorer, it is easier for me to use Windows Explorer to prepare my photo files and folders, rather than learning an unfamiliar method in a new program (unless Windows Explorer cannot provide the way I want.) Because 3D-Album is meant to be simple, It does not try to do everything. It provides only features that are necessary to get your job done. 3D-Album is definitely not a product for photo management, nor photo editing or photo printing. It is for photo presenation. I never found a photo album software that brings so much fun. It adds many wonders to my boring digital photos. If you are tired of traditional 2-D slideshows as provided by many other 2-D photo album softwares, add 3D-Album to your collection. It is a truly great software package.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: It is nice but not very practical, you cannot add or delete pictures, it is not easy to use, it takes a lot of space. PhotoJam 3 does the same and maybe more and it's more versatile, easier and cheaper!
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Summary: Great software
Review: Awesome email tech support....I was looking for a program that worked with XP and that would allow me to creat a photo slide show with more than 100 pictures....This one was it hands down...very simple to use with editing pictures, adding voice and music and creating fun styles. Bought the video capture add in, so that i could burn the picture show on a dvd....worked like a charm... my previous program would only let you do 99 pictures per dvd... this is an awesome program that allows up 100000 frames..
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Summary: Poor Image Quality
Review: I created an album with images from various sources that looked good with Dell Picture & Fax Viewer. I created the album with the highest quality settings and played them through Nvidia GeForce MX420 and MX440 graphic cards on 2 different systems. The image quality was real poor on the MX420 and ok with the MX440. The most important features to me in the album is the quality of the pictures which were degraded serious. There support people responded promptly and explained the graphics cards needed special settings to get good quality. I tried these settings and got no improvement. The final comment from support is that "people will tell me the quality I get is good for the money I paid for the product". In other words, what to you expect for what you paid. If your concerned about image quality don't buy this product. It's too bad, the features are real nice.
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