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FlipAlbum
5 and Mac FlipAlbum 3
by Sam Clemens
May 6th, 2003
There are so many
customization features in both versions; we wouldn’t have the
space to list them all here. You can change the album covers color or
texture, select a choice of page layouts or how the photos are viewed,
annotate each photo page, select any font on your computer to use in
the album, even use Slide Show Effects for the page transition. Least
to say that you will have a lot of fun personalizing each album you
create.
FlipAlbum makes Thumbnail and Contents pages for you
Not many people
take perfect pictures, so there are simple to use editing tools built-in
to fix minor boo-boos like flash red-eye. Or, cropping the photo to
remove your cranky mother-in-law from your last birthday party pics.
Yeah, the pages actually do flip, manually or automatically
If the splendidly executed page flip animation isn’t enough to impress you, how about adding your own choice of an MP3 playlist as mood music. I really liked this feature, but it took some work to master its implementation.
Show off you
stuff
Both versions of FlipAlbum give you a number of creative ways to show
off you favorite pictures or personal work. You can select to export you
album to CD, VCD or DVD formats for players that support those formats.
Not everyone owns a PC, so friends, family or clients with VCD/DVD players
can enjoy your creations. You can also limit the access to your CD/DVD
creations and prohibitive “print lock” with a unique password
feature.
You can also select to send your album via an upload with built-in FTP to either the E-Books supported www.myflipbooks.com or Yahoo’s www.photos.yahoo.com. You could also FTP the album to your own personal web page.
FlipAlbum 5 for PC
comes in Standard, Suite and Professional versions; the Mac version only
comes in one version that is the equivalent to the PC Suite 5.
The
Bottom Line
FlipAlbum Suite 5 is a very mature applications with some great features
not found on any other application of its type, it is expensive and that
is relatively subjective. It is a very easy application to use on the
sometimes-confusing Windows platform. It is highly recommended for your
purchase consideration, but have fast PC of at least 1.2GHz and at least
256MB’s of RAM.
Mac FlipAlbum 3 is not yet as mature and may have a few bugs to work out, it does need a very fast Mac to run to our satisfaction. We’re not sure about the few crashes we had; our Macs are reloaded frequently with fresh clean OS X 10.2 installs from mirror images. Mac FlipAlbum 3 is not a competitor for iPhoto, they are different cats and in many ways Mac FlipAlbum 3 is better, especially for casual fun users. It is recommended also, with a few reservations for your purchase consideration.
FlipAlbum
5 Suite is $59.95 and
Mac
FlipAlbum 3 is $39.95 (nice price!)
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