Corel Debuts Free Photo Product

[dbarrow]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Corel_Debuts_Free_Photo_Product/1157490261

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews
September 5, 2006, 5:09 PM

Corel aimed to break further into the consumer digital imaging market with the release of SnapFire Tuesday, which the company is marketing as a replacement for standard digital imaging software. Corel plans to offer two versions, one free and the other available for $39.99 USD. The company says most users would be well served by the free version, which offers organization, editing, and sharing features for pictures and videos.

The paid version adds enhanced editing capabilities, including some tools found in Corel's Paint Shop Pro product, as well as additional sharing features and backup options. Additionally, users of SnapFire Plus would be able to add new functionality through modular application support, the first of which is a DVD authoring plug-in. Corel SnapFire is available immediately from the program's Web site, and through select retailers.

*What ever happened to Corel anyway? They used to make such great products but have been under the radar for the last few years.

[casey]

I fell for the Paintshop Pro X free. After five minutes of saying NO to all kind of offers I get to a page where it says I have to take at least two offers to get my free
Paint shop Pro. I didn't even read the offers as by this time I was disgusted enough to just close the window and get out..

[mommalina]

I fell for the Paintshop Pro X free. After five minutes of saying NO to all kind of offers I get to a page where it says I have to take at least two offers to get my free
Paint shop Pro. I didn't even read the offers as by this time I was disgusted enough to just close the window and get out..

I quit signing up for most freebies because of this.

The trick is to make sure the freebie is being offered by the manufacturer, not another agency which tries to force other offers on you (which probably cause a ton of spam in your mailbox if you sign up)....:mad: .

Lina

[mylanta]

Part of the reason I don't do free software, the other reason is Corel.
I love Word Perfect, but I have seen incredible problems with using old versions and I have seen Corel draw cripple new installs of XP as well. This software can be as dangerous as any Norton or Roxio install so I stay away from all except Word Perfect but here I always use the newest version only.
I used to say the only Symantec program I used was Ghost and then a version installed created a problem where the systems would not shut down. That coupled with the fact Acronis has more advanced features ended that for me as well. I am actually envious of people using any Symantec program successfully for any length of time, without noticing entire system degradation. When I take in a client pc now, I insist we remove it or I won't work on it. I don't care if they put it back when I return pc, but I want nothing to do with it. On any of my built pc's I added a clause that I will not be responsible for any system degradation if the user installs any Symantec products within the 90 day parts and system warranty.

[Pi rules]

I just use Adobe Photoshop Elements (couldn't afford the multi-hundred $ full version of Photoshop) for picture organizing and editing. There is some free Adobe Product called Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition (http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/starter.html) that has some quick photo fixes as well as a decent organizer. Google's Picasa is good as well.

[mylanta]

Photoshop Elements is an excellent starter source and has many of the tools of Adobe Photoshop available.

[Pi rules]

It is an excellent program and I love it. I also just got "Photoshop Elements 2 Bible" that should help me use it better. :) It would be nice to have Photoshop CS2 and Premiere, but I got Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements for $70 in a package after sale/rebate. ;)

[mylanta]

Don't worry most people who can afford Photoshop and have it onboard, don't know how to use it anyway. It is a monstrously complicated program. The manual takes a lifetime to read, and by the time I learn how to do something in it, it took me so long to figure it out, I can't remember how I did it anyway, so each time I start all over again.