The Bottom Line
I'm not convinced that the book analogy is the best way to present digital photos, but if you like the idea of presenting pictures in a page-flipping album, FlipAlbum is a good way to do it.
Pros
- Unique way to present your pictures
- Quickly create a basic album from a folder
- Enhance album pages with themes and borders
Cons
- Difficult to scale & move objects
- Can't edit or add effects to many images at once
- CD and VideoCD burning is not built-in
Description
- Create 3D "page-flipping" digital photo albums and distribute them for free on CD, DVD, or the Web.
- Images are presented in a digital "book" format where pages can be flipped by clicking the mouse.
- Thumbnail overview, index, and contents are automatically generated and updated as you edit a book.
- Books can also include text annotations, hyperlinks, audio clips, background music, & movie files.
- Album cover, pages, and spine can be customized with different styles, backgrounds, and themes.
- Add bookmarks & index tabs for navigating pages. Click on specific pages in the stack to go there.
- Flip pages fast or slow according to where you click. Hold a group of pages for comparing two pages.
- Enhance pictures with cutout shapes, borders, speech bubbles, frames, shadows, and transparency.
- Integrated image editor for cropping, flipping, resizing, image correction, special effects, etc.
- To create Video CDs for DVD Playback, your CD writing program must support Video CD format.
Guide Review - FlipAlbum 5 Suite for Windows from E-Book Systems
FlipAlbum gives digital photo albums the look and feel of a traditional book with 3D page-turning animation. This may sound like a comfortable way to view digital pictures for some, but to me it seems like a step backward. Sharing your pictures in this format can be cute, but if you want to spruce up your albums with special effects, customized pages and borders, editing can be tedious. Sharing albums on CD is the best way to go, since sharing online requires you upload the albums to a Web site and your recipient must load a FlipViewer browser control.
E-Book also offers FlipAlbum for Macintosh and FlipAlbum Professional for producing commercial CD catalogs. Extra design libraries can be purchased for more themes and borders.
