“Create 3D photo exhibitions in suggestive galleries”

Would you like to impress your friends with an impressive presentation of your last holiday pictures and are you looking for a special way to do it? What could be better than having a whole art-gallery just for you, maybe set in an ancient castle, or in a modern skyscraper or, why not, in a Chinese garden?

Photo! 3D Album is a simple free program that lets you upload your photo collection in very nice 3D settings that you can choose from a menu that pops up when you create a new project. Be careful to choose the one that best suits your purposes, because you won't be able to change it later. I can't really understand why this should be, as it would have been good to see final results in different settings without having to load all the pictures again. That said, the way you upload and place the photos in the spaces is very nice. It's like a first-person computer game, where you navigate through the gallery and you attach your photographs to the available canvases. Although there are many, frames are limited and this is a real problem for medium-size collections.

When you have finished navigating and uploading, you have several options in order to export your photo-collection. You can create a screen saver or a stand alone gallery which can be run with a double-click, or alternatively a web gallery in VRML or Shockwave format. For the latter format you will have to register, for free, on the developer's web site. When you launch the final video, press F1 if you want to navigate freely around the gallery.

Photo! 3D Album is great to create cool animations with the photos you want. Unfortunately the spaces available in the art gallery are limited, as they would be in a real one. It's also an interesting program to create your own personal screen savers.

Languages:

English

Minimum requirements for Photo! 3D Album:

OS: WinXP/Vista

Pros

Cool way to navigate and upload the photo
Select different setting and download newer ones
Create screensavers
Choose 3 levels of quality when exporting

Cons

Limited number of picture you can show in a gallery
You can just choose the type of art gallery once at the beginning

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From the publisher of Photo! 3D Album

Photo! 3D Album gives you an exciting opportunity to create stunning 3D albums where you will see your photos in the dreamlike environment of picturesque 3D galleries. 3D albums can be viewed in automatic mode, when the program itself guides you through the gallery halls. You can also enter the free move mode and wander freely inside the virtual space using your mouse.

Photo! 3D Album offers almost endless opportunities to present your photos in various environments! Imagine your pictures on the walls of a modern Showroom, a fabulous Art Gallery, or even inside mysterious Egyptian pyramids. You can always download more free galleries to use with the software from our constantly growing collection. A pleasing lifelike atmosphere of all galleries is created thanks to amazingly natural-looking graphics and exquisite detail. 3D Albums can be easily shared.

Amaze your family and friends by sending them your holiday photos in a 3D presentation (a stand-alone EXE file that does not require Photo! 3D Album software to view). You can also share your albums via CD or the net, placing them on your home page. Use new feature - saving album into shockwave format for playing as a flash reel! From now users can upload their 3D albums on free hosting pho.to fully automatically. Just push "Share" button and choose option "upload to pho.to" - and your stunning three dimentional album can be viewed as a flash reel and easily sended to your friend as a link. Photo! 3D Album installer also contains Photo! 3D Screensaver software letting you view created galleries as a screensaver. Also you have an excellent possibility to add an mp3 music file into the screensaver and listen to your favorite music while observing the gallery.