"All you need to do is gather your photos into your computer"

07/22/2002

By Mike Goldfein / 11 News Washington, D.C. Bureau

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (KHOU) – Everyone knows what to do with photos from film cameras. We have them developed, then thumb through them, send a few to the relatives and put the rest in a shoebox. But what can you do with digital photos? There's now a cool new program for showing them off.

There are loads of computer programs out there to help you edit and print digital photos, but what if you just want to watch them.

And watch them in a way that makes them come alive.

That's what 3D-Album does. The $40 program takes your digital photos and turns them into a series of scene stealing shows set to our favorite music.

The program comes with more than 60 different eye-popping presentation styles.

From a rotating wood paneled gallery to a gallery where the photos separate like elevator doors, or like a Rubik's Cube style.

Even better, once you've created a show the program lets you burn it to a CD or E-mail it to friends who can play it on their computer even if they don't own the program.

Yuting Tu with 3D-Album said, "All you need to do is gather your photos into your computer. Once you do that you are home free. All you need to do is point to the folder and choose one style and that's it. Two clicks and you're done."

And in fact that is pretty much it. The program is so simple that it easily passed my, "I refuse to read the directions test."

Yet it is amazingly sophisticated. In one presentation the flame flickers every time a photo flips. And in another one, the photos are transparent and billow in the wind.

The program is so much fun that you might even be able to show the neighbors those photos from your last vacation without having them run for the doors.

To learn more, check out 3D-Album.