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- Corel Establish it! characteristics photo-editing, picture painting, digital scrapbooking and photograph-stitching computer software all in 1 box
- Paint it! will take your favorite picture memories and magically transforms them into unique paintings
- Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 makes it effortless to generate gorgeous scrapbooks, cards and other tasks on your home pc
- Photo Album seven Deluxe provides you all the resources you have to have to make the most of your photos and videos
- PanoramaPlus X4 lets you develop and share amazing panoramic photos and virtual reality videos
Corel Produce it! is the ultimate entertaining collection of picture goods. You get photograph-editing photo painting digital scrapbooking and photo-stitching software all in one box. It s all you have to fix handle and enhance your images then turn them into wonderful works of art. Rapidly transform your preferred photos into lovely paintings. Decide upon from hundreds of customizable templates to develop greeting cards calendars magazine covers and even more. You can even use lifelike crafting tools to desig
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Graphic software bundle for the graphics novice or casual user,
As a graphic artist who has used Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop for photo editing and digital painting/graphic creation from scratch for years, I’m always interested in other graphic programs to see how they work, what exclusive functions they might have and their limitations. This bundle is not for professionals. There’s nothing here that a professional probably doesn’t already have in a superior form, plus they’ll be disappointed in its limitations. For casual users, those new to graphic manipulation, folks who want to do digital scrapbooking and basic photo editing without too many confusing extras, it’s a nice little suite of programs to have.
Photo Album 7 has a great intuitive interface, does a very good job of organizing your photos so that you can find them, and does very basic photo editing like whitening teeth and removing blemishes. As a graphic artist, I prefer a program like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, but this very basic photo editor may be all the novice needs or even wants in a photo editing program.
Paint It! takes your photos and turns them into digital paintings, sketches et cetera with the click of a mouse. It’s very easy to use for the average or novice user, but has limited capabilities. I can’t picture most people using this more than once or twice a year, even for avid digital scrapbookers. You can, however, play with the settings and get all kinds of results and it can be fun to watch what happens to your photo just using the random settings.
Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 is a great tool for scrapbookers that will take the work out of having to come up with layouts every single time. My gripe about this program is that it comes with very little content. You’ll have to hunt down resources for actual elements like frames, corners, embellishments and so forth. There are a lot of free sites and pay sites that offer no cost samples or even full packages for no cost, but I can imagine for a beginner this will be frustrating. As a graphic artist I can make my own content, but the target customer for this software will probably not be able to do that. It is otherwise pleasant and easy to use. The interface is not easy to figure out even for advanced users;you’ll find yourself referring to the manual a lot to learn to use it.
Panorama Plus takes pictures and stitches them together to create super-wide, seamless panoramic photos. This is mostly useful for landscapes and inanimate objects. You can also do this with videos, but I didn’t have any video to try with it. It will export the image into many standard formats, including PDF. There are a few editing tools, like rotating and straightening, and some image enhancement. The actual image editing is so limited that advanced users will find themselves opening their panoramas in another, more complex program to achieve the effects they want, but the average user may find that what it includes is really all they need.
If you bought these programs separately, they would be a lot more expensive, so this bundle is a good value in that respect. I’m giving it 3 stars with a caveat to professionals that they likely already have software that is easier for them to use and probably does a better job. It’s fun to play with, but that’s about it for the professional. I recommend this bundle for casual users, part time hobbyists, kids, and beginners who can spend the time looking for content for the scrapbooking portion and do not need a lot of actual image enhancement power. If you have the time and want more tools without spending a lot of time or money, I’d recommend Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 instead. It is well worth the time and money invested, costs the same as this bundle and does so much more. But if you’re going for something without a lot of confusing bells and whistles, this bundle is for you.
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|There are much better options out there,
I wasn’t as impressed with this software as I was hoping to be. The files could only be saved as files that only these programs could read…couldn’t be saved as jpegs or anything else that would make it easier to upload scrapbook pages anywhere else. I also like software where I can interchange graphics from one program to another, such as pulling art from the scrapbook program and putting into a photo editing software to make my own creations, and this program makes it very difficult to do that. I guess the problem is that I like to have more freedom to create exactly what I want, and so far, this software seems very limiting.
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|A Fun Collection of Photo Handling Software (but beware of additional cost for additional materials),
When I received the package I was surprised at the weight of the box. I was surprised to find that rather than just provide operating manuals online as most companies now do they actually include two rater extensive instruction manuals for Photo Album 7 and Digital Scrapbook Artist 2. Installation was fairly easy but took more time than it should have. That is because this is not one program but it is 4 separate programs with 4 separate disc requiring 4 separate installations along with 4 lengthy serial numbers to enter and enter incorrectly. In all fairness it is clearly advertised as a “fun collection.” They are right about the fun part. I really manage my photography in Lightroom and Photoshop but after the image is done with post processing what do you do with it? The answer is to have fun with it. That’s where this software steps in. I have been using a stitch program that Canon provides with their cameras and it has done OK. I found the Corel version to be at least as accurate if not more so than the Canon program in stitching shots together for a pano photo. I did have a problem with Photo Album freezing up and requiring a PC shutdown more than once. This is on a new loaded Alienware desktop and is the only program that has caused this to happen so far. Digital Scrapbook is the main program of the collection. It comes with a basic set of backgrounds, materials, frames, and objects to use to spice up your photos and make flyers, poster, cards, etc. The one thing that really bugged me was that anything but the basic stuff loaded on installation requires going online and downloading it. As I said before I have a fast PC and very fast cable internet but the downloads were painfully slow, so much so that I gave up. The other beef I have is that the very best stuff is not free, and if you want it you have to get out the credit card and fork out several dollars. I can’t help get the feeling that this program is something like a “loss leader” just to get you to buy more stuff online. For this reason I have to give it a lower rating. While Scrapbook is a lot of fun it does take some time, and additional money, to get the best out of it. The other programs in the collection are of little value in my mind.
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