Feature Set:  

Corel Photo Album 7 contains a long list of organizing abilities, one–click editing features, sharing methods, and back up features. In fact, this product includes more editing and enhancing features than any of the other products we compared for this review. Here are the highlights:

• Photo Finder searches your computer for photos and automatically organizes them by the date they were taken.
• Photo Downloader gives you an instant slide show of your newly downloaded photos. Photos are automatically rotated.
• PhotoRecovery restores accidentally deleted (from the memory card) photos from your camera.
• Organize images by date, keywords, favorites folder, collections, or by recent downloads. Tag photos with a gold star to quickly find them for later use.
• Use Photo-Trays to mark your photos and remind yourself, which ones you need to e-mail, upload, or print.
• Edits include Quick Fix for color and contrast, Adjust Wizard for common corrections, Sharpen Tool to go from fuzzy to clear, Add Flash to bring out detail, red eye removal, and crop. Enhance with black and white and sepia conversions, frames, edges, borders, and custom panorama composites.
• PhotoSafe™ Backup System lets you back up your entire collection with just a few clicks.

Bonus Features

• Thinify™: Automatically reduce your photo subject by 10 pounds … we love this.
• Use QuickCD™ to burn 100s photos on a CD with two clicks. Create a CD label by dragging a photo onto the template.
• Use Quick-Email to automatically resize photos and send via email to a computer or to a cell phone.

Corel Photo Album 7 includes 40 print templates, 1000s of templates for album pages, collage templates, and Web Gallery templates for uploading. Send photos to friends and family with Quick E-mail, which works on cell phones as well.

Ease of Use:  

Corel Photo Album 7 has a short learning curve; we rarely had to refer to the help section. We tried every feature; easily navigated through the program, and you will too. 

Help/Support:  

Corel Photo Album 7 has an inter–program help section for quick reference, a Getting Started Guide, searchable knowledge base, email, and telephone support. 

Corel has created an easy to use program that provides a long list organizing, editing and sharing functions. It’s fast, fun and friendly, making it a top choice for amateur photographers. 

If you are looking for a new digital camera or a photo printer to capture and print those great images, click over to our Digital Camera or Photo Only Printer reviews to see which one is best for you.