Corel Photo Album 6 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]

List Price: $49.99

Features:

• Complete, easy-to-use software for your digital camera
• Makes it easy to organize, enhance, protect, and share photos
• Automatically downloads photos from camera as soon as it's plugged in
• Rotates and organizes photos; one-click quick fixes; 2-click backup to CD
• Share photos with 1000s of creative projects; make cards, calendars, and more

Accessories:
WordPerfect Office X3 Student and Teacher Edition [OLD VERSION]	Corel WordPerfect Office X3 Home Edition	Corel Paint Shop Pro X [OLD VERSION]	Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Art Suite

Customer Reviews:

Basic program - prefer Picasa (free) [Posted on 2007-04-12]
This is a very basic picture program. I find myself using Google's Picasa
(which is free) much more often than this. I have not had any problems
with it though.

An OK photo tool for your computer. [Posted on 2007-05-06]
This software works well for the job intended.
Only complaint I have is that it has an annoying habit of loading on your computer if you open any other software that has pictures, such as a memory stick, etc., then you have to turn Corel off.

Probably a way to stop that, but I haven't taken time to do it yet.

Great digital scrapping program [Posted on 2007-05-12]
Wonderfully easy to use, great for photo editing and digital scrapbooking! Very easy to upload your papers and elements. Very user friendly, tons of tools!

So Far, Not So Good [Posted on 2007-12-30]
I purchased this product new for my mom and sister-in-law with no grand expectations about what I had ordered. Imagine my surprise then when one of the products arrived in a re-used bubble envelope (folded inside-out with the previous customer's name in the return address line) and the other in a regular USPS Priority Mail box. If this was the only issue, I would not have bothered writing a review but the CD itself came in an unmarked paper envelope without any packaging, leading me to wonder if this product was really new.

I have come to expect better of Amazon and do not think the vendor and distributor should be showing a picture of a software package in promoting this item since what you see is not what you get.

As for the merits of this product, the jury is still out but so far its seller and Amazon have left a bad first impression.

major disappointment [Posted on 2008-03-15]
Corel acquired Photo Album 6 from JASC and then promptly abandoned development, leaving a host of unresolved problems, ranging in severity from annoying to quite serious. Here are just a few examples:

1. The "View/Sort Thumbnails" setting is not remembered, i.e., if you want to see thumbnails sorted by name, you must specify this every time you open the application.

2. Photo Album 6 settings sometimes get corrupted. Corel's only solution for this is to open the "Application Data" folder for the current user and then delete the "Corel Photo Album" folder. This resets the database, which has several undesirable side effects, e.g., all keywords and descriptions are lost, and the program forgets all favorite folder selections.

3. There is no good mechanism for transferring the database from one computer to another. In particular, there is no way to merge two databases together, i.e., one database must overwrite the other.

4. There is no way to control the text size in menus. In particular, there is no way to increase the text size in the "Favorite Folders" or "All Folders" lists, a significant problem for users with poor vision.

Given the length of time that has elapsed, it has become clear that these and hundreds of other problems with Photo Album will never be fixed.

On top of all this, Corel technical support is surly and unhelpful.

I am now looking for a suitable alternative to replace this application.

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