Corel Creates the World's Largest Photo Booth as Part of a Special Valentine's Day Contest.Anyone Can Submit Photos and be Part of the World's Biggest Photo Booth Powered By Corel[R] Snapfire[TM] Plus Submit a Photo and Automatically Enter to Win a Canon Digital Camera and HD Video Camera Package Valued at $1700 OTTAWA -- Looking to set a record for the world's largest photo booth photo strip ever created, Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company. is asking individuals across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. to submit photos of themselves with someone they love. In honor of Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. , those who submit can see their photo in the finished strip which will appear on www.snapfire.com throughout the month of February. Individuals who submit photos are automatically entered in a contest to win a Canon PowerShot The PowerShot products are a line of consumer grade digital cameras, launched by Canon in 1995. The PowerShot line has been successful for Canon, and is one of the best-selling digital camera lines worldwide. A630 digital camera and Canon HV10 HDV (High Definition Video) The high-definition, wide screen version of the DV magnetic tape format. Like DV, HDV recording moves at a constant data rate and stores data on the same DV and MiniDV tapes as SD camcorders. video camera package valued at $1700 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. . The random drawing for the winner will be held in March 2007. More information on the contest can be found at www.snapfire.com/contest/index.html?trkid=phboothPR. In keeping with the Valentine's Day theme, people are encouraged to submit photos of themselves with someone or something they love. Corel is seeking photographs of happy couples or individuals with their adorable children or beloved pets. "Hasn't everyone grabbed their camera, held it out in front of themselves, and snapped a self-portrait, complete with cheesy cheesy (che´ze) caseous. close-up grin? That's exactly what we want people to do," said Corel Digital Imaging Product Marketing Manager Allison Pankratz. "Grab your honey, or your kids, or your dog and start snapping. It's a great way to be creative and show your love on Valentine's Day. Plus, you get a chance to make history by being part of the world's biggest photo booth photo strip." Corel is creating the photo strip using its renowned Snapfire[TM] Plus digital photography software. Easy to use and learn, Snapfire Plus gives users all the tools they need to enhance, share and organize their digital photos and video clips as well as create striking slideshows set to the music soundtracks of their choice. "Our Snapfire Plus digital photography software makes it easier than ever to bring people together to connect and share their photos," said Pankratz. "The photo strip is just one example of how Snapfire Plus lets people share their favorite moments with others." How To Submit Photos and Enter The Contest It is easy to submit your photos to the photo strip and enter the contest in five easy steps: 1. Download the free Snapfire Plus trial software at www.snapfire.com 2. Save and install the free Photo Booth Frame 3. Snap your best love photograph. Get creative! 4. Use Corel Snapfire SnapFire is a digital photo management program from Corel Corporation, released as a competitor to Google's Picasa software. It comes in a free and "Plus" version. See also
5. Attach your photo to an email and send them both to snapfirecontest@corel.com For more information on the photo strip contest, including additional Terms and Conditions, please go to www.snapfire.com. About Corel Corporation Corel is a leading global packaged software See software package. company with over 40 million users. The Company provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics and digital imaging software and enjoys a favorable market position among consumers and small businesses. The Company's award-winning product portfolio features popular, globally recognized brands, including CorelDRAW[R] Graphics Suite, Corel[R] Paint Shop Pro[R], Corel[R] Snapfire(TM), Corel[R] Painter(TM), Corel DESIGNER A full-featured Windows drawing program from Corel that has been widely used by technical illustrators. Originally developed by Micrografx, which was acquired by Corel in 2001, Corel DESIGNER is a very sophisticated vector graphics program providing many features of a CAD program, [R], Corel[R] WordPerfect[R] Office, WinZip[R], and iGrafx[R]. With hundreds of industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design and value, Corel's products have built a loyal following of customers and partners around the globe. Corel's products are sold in over 75 countries through an international network of resellers and retailers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and Corel's global websites. Corel Corporation announced the completion of its acquisition of InterVideo, Inc., a leading provider of digital media authoring and playback software with a focus on high-definition video This article is about high-definition video technology. For television systems, see High-definition television. For the tape format, see HDV. For compression and prerecorded media, see High-definition pre-recorded media and compression. and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. technologies, on December 12, 2006. In 2005, InterVideo acquired a majority interest in Ulead, a leading developer of video imaging and DVD authoring software for desktop, server, mobile and Internet platforms. Corel's acquisition of the remaining interest in Ulead is expected to be completed in the near future. [c] 2007 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, CorelDRAW, Paint Shop Pro, Snapfire, Painter, Corel DESIGNER, WordPerfect, WinZip, iGrafx, InterVideo, Ulead and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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