Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10129 in Software
• Brand: Ulead
• Released on: 2006-10-15
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP

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Manufacturer's Description

Ulead PhotoImpact 12 is a complete image-editing suite for managing, editing and sharing all your digital images. Handy ExpressFix mode makes common photo enhancements fast and easy. Choose from a full range of effects and powerful yet easy-to-use tools for outstanding results. Create and share photo projects, calendars, prints or slideshows, on disc, Web or email.

Tools for everyday photo tasks:

• ExpressFix mode - Perfect for beginners and great for everyday photo tasks. Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options get you started fast.
• Enhanced digital camera wizard - A simplified dialog box provides a more streamlined workflow for transferring your photos from your camera to your computer.
• Auto-process commands - Make standard photo adjustments automatically with one-click Levels, Brightness and Saturation, Colour, Focus, Straighten, Crop, Enhance and Contrast tools. The new Auto Reduce Noise feature automatically cleans up digital artifacts in photos shot in low light conditions or at high ISO settings.
• Remove red eye - Easily remove red eye from people, and yellow or green eyes from animals, in your pictures.
• Scanned image fix - Straighten, crop, improve focus, brightness and colour balance, fix red eye and add a frame with shadow, for easy post processing of scanned images.
• Photo frames - Choose from over 260 frames with the option of adding text, image logos and EXIF data.
• E-mail - Optimize images and export them as attachments to your e-mail application for seamless sharing.
• Save for mobile - Easily save files to display on your mobile phone, PDA, or other portable device. Print multiple photos and print posters.
• Web albums and slideshows - Upload photos to the Web or burn a slideshow to disc, and share with your family and friends.

• Enhanced welcome screen - The Welcome Screen saves you time. Go straight to the appropriate tool, mode or program that you want to use.
• SmartGuide How-to help - Learn how to edit while you edit! SmartGuide provides step-by-step directions on-screen that teach you how to accomplish many basic and advanced photo-editing, Webpage, video and DVD menu creation tasks. Links take you directly to the tools you need.
• Enhanced friendlier interface - New, big buttons allow you to quickly switch between ExpressFix, Full Edit, Video and DVD and Web modes. Another button lets you start a new or open an existing Photo Project, Calendar, Web Album, Web Slideshow or open the Mobile Image wizard. Jump directly to other programs such as Photo Explorer, COOL 360 and GIF Animator without closing the main program.
• EasyPalette - Visually choose from a thumbnail library of 800 objects and 2,500 customizable effects. Just drag-and-drop effects onto any image, selected area or object for the most intuitive way to apply effects. Even save macros and images to the EasyPalette.
• Dockable panels - Improve your workflow by locking frequently used panels and toolbars together for complete control over your workspace. Now you can turn docking on/off for individual panels.
• Enhanced split view FX previewing - The enhanced effects dialog box allows for fast previewing and increased productivity. The screen can be resized freely, even up to full screen. You have the option for an adjustable one-screen Split View, or two-screen Dual View previewing.
• Lightning-fast browse manager - Instantly see image thumbnails, so you can choose photos and get working fast.
• Quick command panel - Save time by recording macros to perform a set of tasks on any group of images.
• Batch convert - Increase your productivity by converting the file format, data type and resolution of multiple images with just one click.
• UFO preview - View PhotoImpact vector graphics files directly in Windows Explorer so you'll know exactly which files you want to open.

• NEW! Auto white balance control - Make the colours in your photos look natural. The enhanced white balance feature uses advanced perceptual technology to correct colours the way your eyes see. Auto presets allow for quick colour adjustments. Detailed settings let you fine-tune the colours of your photos, precisely the way you like them.
• Enhanced reduce noise - More powerful and much faster, the enhanced Reduce Noise feature uses anisotropic diffusion, providing cleaner, sharper images than ever before. Sliders let you precisely adjust the level of noise reduction you desire.
• Enhanced RAW file support - Brighter previews, improved performance and a greater number of supported camera models make working with your RAW images better than ever.Enhanced 16-bit image support. Take advantage of PhotoImpact's selection tools while editing high colour depth images. Create and store full 16-bit colour depth objects in the UFO file format.
• Enhanced High Dynamic Range (HDR) - Combine bracketed exposures of the same scene to create stunning, professional images that capture colour and detail in both shadows and highlights. Delete elements of the scene that change between shots. Enhanced with preset curves for more camera models.
• SmartCurves - SmartCurves is automatic image adjustment that compensates for camera response curve anomalies. You get high-quality tonal correction tailored for your camera, for spot-on results.
• SmartRemove scene compositor - Selectively paint out moving elements from multiple shots of the same scene, so you can compose an image with just the elements you want. Show your subject in a series of poses or create a crowd where there was none.
• Large file performance - Robust support for images taken using digital cameras with resolutions of 8 Megapixels or higher
• Correct chromatic aberration - Clean up chromatic aberration and purple fringing found in images taken with some of today's high-resolution, small-sized sensors.
• Photo correction commands - For more precise image adjustment.

Complete creative suite:

• Photo project templates - Share your photos in greeting cards and CD and DVD labels that capture the excitement of any occasion. Choose from 70 customisable templates. The 3-step wizard makes it simple and fast!
• Object extraction wizard - Professionally extract objects in minutes! Transport your family to exotic places they've never been. Or combine dreams with reality. Compose a scene of a mouse chasing a cat. Just paint around the edge of your subject, click on the background, extract and refine. Four steps and you're done. There's even an undo option.
• Border anti-aliasing - Generate an anti-aliased border so image edges won't appear pixelated.
• Intuitive selection tools - Make selections based on what you can see without selecting unwanted hidden elements.
• Smart lasso - A selection tool that automatically finds an object's best edges. Works well with straight-edged objects set against high-contrast backgrounds.
• Soft edge on objects - Add soft feathery edges for striking montages and smooth alpha-channel video overlays.
• Match background colour - Seamlessly blend composited objects into any background for professional-quality montages.
• Object-based approach - Unlike layer-based programs, PhotoImpact's objects allow for more intuitive image compositing.
• Transform tool - Correct or modify images and objects with robust transform features including Resize, Distort, Add Perspective and Rotate in Virtual 3D.
• Add vignette - Create soft-edge oval frames that make your portraits stand out. With this spotlight effect, you can draw viewers' eyes to your subject and reduce distracting background elements.
• Colour cast - Set the right mood. Easily warm up or cool down photos by clicking on any image colour and adjusting the hue and saturation using the colour wheel.

• Photographic filters - Full-screen dialog boxes for easier previewing. Achieve professional results that normally require specialized effect filters.

Explore amazing compositing control with nondestructive layer masks. Customize a mask's transparency using painting and gradient tools and enjoy the flexibility of being able to rotate, resize, paint in or paint out masks just like objects. Link and unlink an object to a selection mask so that you can change the object's position and adjust the layer mask's size and properties.

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