Ulead PhotoImpact X3

Ulead PhotoImpact X3 combines full-featured photo editing with inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art to make digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy. Easy & Fast ExpressFix Mode: Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options put the tools you need at your fingertips! Instantly fix exposure, color, and composition. Beginners like the simplicity, experienced users like the efficiency! Take Your Photos to New Places Use easy wizards to create fun photo projects and gifts. Choose from over 200 customizable templates for a wide range of ways to share your pictures. Collages Comic strips Calendars Greeting cards Create Amazing Digital Art: Paint realistic looking clouds with the cloud pen, Enhance your photos with creative filters, and draw and paint like a pro.

Version X3 includes Corel Painter Essentials 3 Full Version, Slideshow Prep Wizard, and new crop tools.

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
• Golden Ratio Crop – Also known as "Divine Proportion", this is the way the old painters composed their paintings. An overlay of lines and curves help you crop and compose images to naturally form a harmonious whole.
• Rule of Thirds Crop - A simpler overlay grid helps you to crop for better composition. Align the horizon with one of the horizontal lines, or a vertical feature with one of the vertical lines, resize and crop.
• 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!

• 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.

• 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![/b]
  • Choose a set of photos, and apply the "cartoon" visual effect to make them look hand-drawn
  • Apply a layout template, and add text or speech bubbles.
  • Produce anything from a single-panel cartoon, a 3-strip comic, or even your own graphic novel!
• 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.

• 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!

• 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.