Reviewed by Jaye Vullo

Do you have your important photos stuffed in boxes or lost motionless on your PC? Have you wanted to organize your stacks of photos for years, but it seemed too tedious? Don’t bore your family or friends with monotonous paper photo albums or slides. Preserve your memories in style. Create gifts that will last a lifetime!

With 3D-Album it takes only a few short steps, very little PC knowledge and a little imagination to show off your favorite photos with “Pizzazz “!

Organize your photos, with simple drag and drop features.  Put them them into the order that you want. Convenient thumbnail previews wind  make it easy to sort your collections.

There are many editing tools to help you add a personal touch to your photos. 3D-Album gives you a number of settings that you can change, including the animation speed and photo size. It’s just as easy to change the background color; material, texture, and even animated 3D headline texts. You can spin the images, dissolve, curl, glide, flip, float, explode, and keep it “alive” with motion.  

This program gives you dozens of different 3D styles, frames, borders, & special effects. You get 23 different styles on the 3D-Album software itself.

You can also get free, additional designs in an expanding collection available for individual download at  www.3D-album.com. 

Use your photos to create animated 3D Photo Shows with Music, Text and Voiceover’s. Combine your photos with your voice or favorite music to create an exciting TV-quality presentation. Add a personal touch with narration, sound clips or music. Even use your favorite MP3, WMA, WAVE, or MIDI files with your presentations.

Copy your albums onto CDs, upload to web pages, or send as email attachments. The best part is that family and friends can enjoy the show without installing any special software on their PCs.  You can even turn your photo shows into custom screensavers.

There is no limit to the number of photos you can add to your 3D photo show. Even if your presentations contain thousands of photos the animation performance won't be changed or slowed down.  

Available as an add-on is “Visviva Animation Capture”. This program allows you to make VCD’s from your 3D-Album Presentations. It captures the image, animation, sound and the background music of your presentation and lets you convert it into various video formats. Make movie files in one of the following formats: MPEG, AVI, WMV, or “RealMedia” movie. “Visviva Animation Capture” uses a simple interface with plenty of on screen help files to guide you. This means that you can make your own personalized photo and movie disks to play on your home DVD players.

With 3D-Album you can enjoy creating cherished gifts for your family and friends. You can have hours of fun while organizing and preserving your memories for a lifetime.

3-D Album makes a great gift for all ages, the young as well as the “young at heart”. 

Don’t just stuff away your precious photos in boxes or drawers. Share and enjoy them for many years to come using 3-D Album. 

Minimum system requirements

PC with 200 MHz or higher clock speed.

Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, or NT 4.0.

64 MB RAM with Windows 98, NT 4.0; 128 MB recommended.

128 MB RAM with Windows 2000, XP; 256 MB recommended.

3D video card with 16MB RAM or higher, supporting OpenGL.

800 x 600 screen resolution or higher.

16, 24, or 32 bit color depth.

Sound card.

3D-Album  $39.95 (Suggested Retail)  is available at select retailers or online at http://www.3D-album.com

Visviva Animation Capture add-on $19.95 direct from http://www.3D-album.com

Micro Research Institute Inc.

2200 Ogden Ave, Suite 350

Telephone: 630-963-5559

Website: http://www.3D-album.com