Ulead® PhotoImpact® X3

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August 2007

 

1. System Requirements

2. Installing/Uninstalling Ulead PhotoImpact X3

3. What's New in Ulead PhotoImpact X3

4. Copyright Information

5. Corel Support Services

 

Combining the best of traditional photo editing with inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art, Ulead® PhotoImpact® X3 makes digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy.  Quickly touch up your favorite snaps with innovative ExpressFix editing. Use drag-and-drop layouts to create memorable cards, calendars, collages and photo gifts in just minutes.  Enjoy hassle-free browsing and sharing of your entire photo collection to stay connected with the important people in your life.  Award-winning PhotoImpact is creative photo editing software that fits your lifestyle.

 

1.  System Requirements          

·         Microsoft® Windows® Vista, Windows® XP with Service Pack 2

·         Intel® Pentium® III compatible or above

·         CD-ROM Drive

·         512 MB RAM (XP), 1 GB RAM (Vista)

·         750 MB available hard drive space for main program and content files

·         An additional 320 MB available hard drive space for bonus programs

·         True Color or Hi-Color display adapter with 1024x768 resolutions or higher

 

2.  Installing/Uninstalling Ulead PhotoImpact X3

·         Insert the PhotoImpact disc into your disc drive. Windows should detect the disc and then automatically run the installation program. If it fails to do so or if the automatic detection feature is turned off, use Windows Explorer instead to run the SETUP.EXE program directly from your disc drive.

·         You can uninstall PhotoImpact via Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel.

 

3.  What's New in Ulead PhotoImpact X3

 

Make every photo special

ExpressFix - The ExpressFix interface has been revamped to put all the most commonly-used enhancement tools at your fingertips, to make everyday photo tasks even easier.

 

·         Straighten tool – Easily level the horizon of images that have been taken at an angle

·         New crop/composition tools

·         Simplified White Balance – Easily correct your images to represent natural color, the way the human eye perceives it.

·         Resample for E-mail – The fastest way to batch encode a folder full of pictures to email-friendly size.

·         Open in Painter® Essentials – Send your photo to Painter Essentials to add fantastic paint effects or create paintings from your photos.

·         Reset Button – Changes just not working out?  Simply hit reset and try something different!

 

MediaOne – A complete management suite to keep track of all your digital images. 

·         Create “Smart Collections” to keep your photos organized.

·         Add descriptions and tags, to retrieve images singly or in groups.

·         Open image directly in PhotoImpact for editing.

 

Take your photos to new places

Photo Projects - The easy template-based way to create fun photo gifts.  Now with new ways to share your images with family and friends:

 

·         Calendar Wizard - Fully personalized 12-month calendars are easy to create with over 20 templates and 3 variations of each - ensure your family and friends have a daily reminder of you! 

·         Comic Strips – Use photos to create your own fun comics! 

·         Collages – Select a group of images, choose a template, and have your photos compiled into an attractive collage.  Print out as a poster, or bind together as a photo album. 

·         Cards – New templates to design and print personalized greeting cards.

·         COOL 360™ – Now integrated into PhotoImpact, COOL 360 lets you combine a series of photos in a seamless panorama.  Even stitch vertical series of photos of high natural features or tall buildings!

·         My Wallpaper – Easily turn your images into correctly-sized desktop wallpaper. 

 

Amazing digital art

 

·         Cloud Pen – No more boring, dull skies!  Add natural-looking clouds to your backgrounds with the customizable Cloud Pen.  Includes settings for cloud type, and more.  Also simulate skywriting or smoke signals for fun effects.

·         BONUS!  Painter Essentials 3 full version – Corel® Painter Essentials is a complete program for digital arts, with the most realistic paint effects you can imagine.  Turn your favorite photos of nature, weddings, pets or kids into natural-looking paintings – in minutes!

 

Graphics tools for video enthusiasts

 

·         Slideshow Prep Wizard – Present your photos at their best in a DVD slideshow.  Batch-resize to default screen size, add a frame, sophisticated color-gradient background for vertically-aligned photos, a color-safe filter, and date/time text labels.

·         DVD Content Sets – Create a truly professional-looking video production.  Design and print DVD labels and case covers that match the menus in Ulead DVD MovieFactory® and VideoStudio®.

·         Enhanced!  DVD Menu Maker – Create your own fully custom DVD menus and publish directly to Ulead® DVD MovieFactory 5 and 6, and VideoStudio® 10 and 11.

 

4.  Copyright Information

 

First edition of Ulead® PhotoImpact® X3, August 2007

 

© 1992-2007 InterVideo Digital Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of InterVideo Digital Technology Corporation.

 

Software License

The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product.

 

Legal Statement

© 1992-2007 InterVideo Digital Technology Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, the Corel Logo, InterVideo, Ulead, PhotoImpact, EasyPalette, Ulead DVD MovieFactory and Ulead VideoStudio are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows and other Microsoft products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Digimarc, MarcCentre and Marcspider are registered trademarks of Digimarc Corporation. Java and all Java-based marks are registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.  All other product names and any registered and unregistered trademarks mentioned are used for identification purpose only and remain the exclusive property of their respective owners.

 

This product is protected under US Patents: 6,119,080; 6,601,032; 6,542,863; 6,999,919; 6,678,648; 6,850,566; 7,149,592; 6,963,877; 7,110,452; 7,164,717; 7,003,033; 7,164,716; 6,940,903; 6,993,075; 6,970,506; 7,133,451; 7,197,072; 6,944,224; 6,121,976; 5,828,380; 7,075,529; 6,545,674; 6,774,894; 6,714,317; 6,577,444; 6,947,610; 6,788,318; 6,876,777; 6,839,065; 6,983,081; Japan Patent: 3,789,109; China Patent:270360; and Taiwan Patents: 162876; 170617; 179717; 79758; 85576; 109773; 113432; 113401; 110651; 168056; 142208; 159038; 167729; 150657; 147957; 159483; 198779; 162787; 164083; 162759; 183455; 220505; 190711; 167505; 187006; 193676; 220231; 200239; 204235; 201318; 220349; I263935; I234763; I248316; I280501; I243320; I267801; I226573; I221746; I277061; I251174; I249690; I255430; I252683; I256599; I260537; I246031 and corresponding patents in other jurisdictions. Other patents pending.

 

Sample Files

Files provided as samples on the program CD can be used for personal demonstrations, productions and presentations. No rights are granted for commercial reproduction or redistribution of any sample files. 

 

5.  Corel Support Services

For the most current information on available support and professional services for your Corel product, please visit www.corel.com/support.