Photos are an integral part of our daily life. They are used to keep record of an event. The number of photos is increasing as the technology has evolved to produce nice and cheaper equipment for capturing the moments. These photos may be stored in digital or analog format. As the life is getting more digital, the database of digital photos is on the rise. The popularity of social networking websites like Flickr and Facebook has also played an important role in making digital photos ubiquitous.
These digital photos can be stored like normal files or in more elegant way like Photobook. These photbooks can be later on printed to store a hard copy as well. Explooore Photobook is a freeware utility to create photobooks which has a Power Point like user interface. This interface is easily understandable and can be learned quickly even if someone is unfamiliar with style of creating presentation in Power Point.
The user can start with a blank Photobook. There are also some predefined formats for photobooks which can be obtained from File>New>Other Photobook. These formats include Square, Landscape, and Portrait formats with option of different sizes.
The interface of this Photobook creator is inspired by Power Point, you will see a left pane in which the photos to be inserted in album are shown. At bottom, there is another pane which contains the templates of Cover and Content. In Content section, there are actually pages and you can add as many with different templates. The images in left pane can be added to page album by drag and drop or user can execute Insert>Autofill to automate the process.
The user can insert text in albums templates and format it as required. There are some pre defined effects which can be applied to images. These effects can be accessed from Tools>Image Tools>Effect Tools.
These photobooks or albums can be saved or print. You are also allowed to publish these photos to some popular websites Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa.
Explooore Photobook is handy free Photobook creator software with rich features. It is supported for Windows Xp/Vista.
