Corel Snapfire Photo Editor: Instructions for Downloading and Installing

Corel Snapfire photo editor is an excellent tool for editing your photos for use on wepages, myspace pages, blogs, or just for your own personal printing and display. It has a lot of neat features and is very easy to use. I have been using Adobe Photoshop for awhile, and although Photoshop probably has more intricate features, I think Snapfire is the way to go for those just starting with photo editing. You can still make awesome pictures, with less steps and confusion!

I had never heard of Corel Snapfire Photo Editor before visiting the photo webpage at cvs.com. This page offers a free downloadable copy of Corel Snapfire plus a 30 day trial of the "Plus" features. To download your free copy, follow these instructions.

1. Go to www.CVS.com

2. Locate and select the "Photo" tab from the red tabs at the top of the page

3. This will take you to a page titled "Photo Center". Click on the button that says "get started"

4. This will bring up a new window, so do not be confused (CVS photo center is separate from the CVS website).

5. Once you are at the Photo Center webpage, click on the tab labeled "Share Photos"

6. At this page, you will see a column on the far righthand side, with several boxes in it. The third box down will say "do more with your photos!". Click on this box.

7. This will bring up a sign-in page (once again, it comes up in a new page). If you do not already have a CVS photo username and password, create one here by clicking "Join for Free", and following the directions. (Because it is a separate website, you must have a separate login username and password than the one you use at CVS.com, if you have an account there.)

8. Once you have established your account, login on this page.

9. A screen will pop up informing you that 10 free photo prints will be added to your account for downloading the software.

10. Once you reach the download page, click "download here", and in the pop-up box, select "run". It does take a few minutes to download. (To see an estimated download time for your internet speed, look on the download page under the "download here" icon.)

11. After it completes the download, your computer should automatically bring up the installation screen and wizard. After this, you should be able to follow the directions in the installation wizard to install the program.

12. Once installed, you may open the program on your computer from the start menu.

Have fun with this new photo editor...remember that you only have 30 days for the "Plus" features, because they are only a trial. The basic photo editing features, however, are yours to keep for free. I will be writing tutorials for using this program to edit your photos, in case you need extra help with the program!