Corel Snapfire is free digital photo software to help you organize, enhance, and share your pictures and video clips. Although it is well-designed and easy to use, the lack of features will probably disappoint all but the most nascent beginners. However, if you like to print photo projects and layouts from home or want a super simple way to share photo slide shows, Snapfire is worth a try.
- It's free. (Users seeking more features can upgrade to Snapfire Plus for US$39.99.)
- Well-designed and very easy to use.
- Preview video clips right in the browser; capture frames to still images and set thumbnail image.
- Includes many print layout options and other basic templates. Users can download more free content.
- Easy sharing of Snapfire slideshows which can be viewed by anyone with the free Snapfire software.
- Limited organizing, photo editing, and sharing features.
- No keyword tagging function. (Snapfire Plus feature)
- No photo resizing, backup or disc burning, or text tool in free version. (Snapfire Plus feature)
- User data is not stored as EXIF and IPTC tags in free version. (Snapfire Plus feature)
- Crashed quite frequently for me, usually when clicking in the photo tray.
- Snapfire helps you organize, enhance, and share digital photos and video clips.
- Photo Downloader automatically imports photos from camera and starts a quick review slide show.
- Organize photos using folders and add star ratings or captions.
- Browse by date, folder, all photos, or saved searches.
- Enhance: rotate, crop, Quick Fix, Photo Doctor, Photo Fix, red eye, black & white and sepia effects.
- Photo Doctor flags photos that could benefit from adjustment. Apply Quick Fix for auto-enhancement.
- Photo Fix lets you manually adjust brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, and focus.
- Print photo layouts or order prints online.
- Get creative with album pages, greeting cards, calendars, and collages.
- Email Snapfire shows, embedded photos, or attachments.
Snapfire's photo downloader can automatically import pictures from a camera and display a quick slide show to review your new photos. Snapfire also imports video clips and offers a convenient feature to preview your video clips directly in the organizer without opening a separate window. You can also grab frames from your video clips to save as still images and choose the frame you'd like for the thumbnail image.
For enhancing photos, Snapfire offers just the basics, which is enough for a free program. The Photo Doctor, which identifies photos that could benefit from adjustment, is a nice idea, but would be better if it marked photos in the thumbnail view as well as the full photo view. Snapfire includes quite a lot of templates for arranging photos and text to print at home. And you can share your photos by email as attachments embedded photos or as a Snapfire show.
Snapfire is well-designed and easy to use, but the lack of features in the free version will disappoint all but the most nascent beginners.
