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I am a long time user of Photo Album, since back when it was developed by Jasc, before Corel bought it out. I mainly used Corel Photo Album to organize photos so I could create travel DVDs of my trips. For me, this program is a total waste. Maybe they have not used the previous version Photo Album 6, which was very user friendly and had many neat features that were eliminated in version 7. I'll get software from another company. For instance, batch commands like renaming all photos within a folder were dropped. Like another reviewer I am also amazed how many people have given this product good ratings. But now I can no longer organize photos chronologically, or by country.
And I was absolutely shocked to see that I could no longer reorganize the order of photos within a folder. Go ahead and try to drag and drop an image to a new location. I'd go back an order Photo Album 6 again, except it won't run with Vista. Recommend that you do the same.
I was looking for a program mainly to organize over 10,000 photos and from what I saw I did like photo album. I was also told by Corel support before I bought it that it was compatible with RAW which is important to me since that's the format I shoot in. It turns out that that was only partially true: you can view photos shot in RAW but you cannot tag RAW images so for me it's worthless for photo organizing - if it could tag RAW images I would give it 4-5 stars
This product is just okay. Some of the features are fun. I love the fact you can add a tan to people but they look a tad orange.
A great way to work with all the digital photos you take. You can make them look even better with this wonderful software.
While there are a few handy features here, I found that most of them are already on other programs I have, for free on my computer. The one thing it does do it put them altogether in one place. But if you have a choice between buying this and buying some utility, or saving a bit longer for a more powerful program, take the other road.
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