Ulead PhotoImpact X3

PhotoImpact X3 is packed with fun photo projects, easy one-click photo fixes and new digital art tools that make your creative projects look their best. Quickly touch up your favorite pictures with innovative ExpressFix editing. Use customizable project templates to create memorable photo gifts in just minutes. Get creative with drawing and painting tools, and work with graphics to enhance your video productions.

Whether you're a beginner or it's your hobby, PhotoImpact X3 will help you create professional-looking graphics for slide shows, videos, DVDs and more.

Easy and Fast ExpressFix Mode
Automated photo 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

Fun Photo Projects
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

Amazing Digital Art

Paint realistic looking clouds with the Cloud pen

Enhance your photos with creative filters

Draw and paint like a pro

Graphics Tools for Video Enthusiasts
If you're into creating video, you also need tools for photos and graphics:

Prepare your photos to look their best in a DVD slide show with Slideshow Prep Wizard

Design and print DVD labels and case covers that match menus in DVD MovieFactory and VideoStudio

Create your own completely custom DVD menus

Features

Correct and enhance photos for maximum impact

Make every picture special with automated photo enhancements and easy-to-understand options for image editing and sharing.

Easy and Fast ExpressFix Mode
The unique ExpressFix panel features one-click fixes and enhancements. Easily compare changes with a large preview screen that shows Before and After views.

SmartCurves automatically bring out details in dark areas, without overexposing the highlights

Auto White Balance Control - easily correct your images to make colors look natural under any kind of light

Reduce Noise - automatically clean up digital artifacts in photos shot in low light or at high ISO settings. Especially useful for improving cell phone pictures

Photo Project Wizard - easily create collages, comic strips, DVD labels and greeting cards

Next-generation Crop tools
PhotoImpact now offers 2 easy ways to re-compose your pictures for greater impact:

Rule of Thirds Crop - apply the classic Rule of Thirds grid for more dynamic images

Golden Ratio Crop - used throughout history by the masters, this is a timeless tool that creates a proportion that is aesthetically pleasing. It worked for the Mona Lisa, it can work for your photos, too!

SmartGuide "How-to" Help

Step-by-step directions on screen show you how to complete great-looking projects

Includes guides for basic and advanced photo-editing, Web page, video and DVD menu tasks

Links take you directly to the tools you need

Enhance photo details even more with advanced editing tools

PhotoImpact X3 includes a complete set of powerful tools to satisfy the demands of high-end users.

Powerful Retouching
Enhance your photos using advanced darkroom tools.

Dodge, Burn, Remove Scratch - retouch photos to improve quality and add professional-looking photographic effects

Touch-up Tool Easily remove skin blemishes and unwanted image details and objects

RAW File Support
Brighter previews, improved performance and a greater number of supported camera models make working with your RAW images easier than ever.

High Dynamic Range

Create professional images that capture color and detail in both shadows and highlights

Remove elements of the scene that change between shots

Enhanced with preset curves for more camera models

Take your photos to new places

Photo Projects

Share your photos as greetings cards, collages, comic strips, and on CD and DVD labels

Choose from 70 customizable templates

Follow the simple and fast 3-step wizard to complete projects quickly

COOL 360 Panorama-maker

Now fully integrated into PhotoImpact

Seamlessly combine a series of photos

Create horizontal or even vertical panoramas

Create amazing digital art

Enjoy limitless creative possibilities with PhotoImpact's suite of powerful, easy-to-use image-editing tools.

Cloud Pen

Say goodbye to dull skies! Now you can paint natural-looking clouds or add fun effects

Choose from cumulus, cirrus and stratus cloud types

Get creative with fantasy cloud animals, skywriting or smoke signals

Creative Photographic Filters
Choose from hundreds of optical effects, textures and lighting effects to add flair to your photos.

Discover graphics tools for video enthusiasts

Make your video productions stand out by creating stunning graphics for slide shows, videos, DVDs and more.

Slideshow Prep Wizard

Make sure your photos look their best in a DVD slide show

Choose from a selection of sophisticated frames, drop-shadow and color-gradient background styles

Add date/time labels and batch process

Import your photos into Corel VideoStudio or Corel DVD MovieFactory to easily create your slide show. PhotoImpact X3 is a great companion tool for these video-editing and DVD authoring applications

DVD Content Sets
Present your video projects like a pro. Design and print DVD labels and case covers that match menus in DVD MovieFactory and VideoStudio.

Save Images for Video
Generate GIF and PNG images with transparency for video overlays, logos or lower-thirds.

DVD Menu Maker Plug-in
Create DVD menus for DVD MovieFactory 5 or 6, and VideoStudio 10 or 11.

System Requirements

Intel Pentium III, AMD Athlon 800 or above CPU

512 MB RAM (for Windows XP), 1 GB RAM (for Windows Vista)

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows 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

CD-ROM Drive

File Format Support
001, BMP, CLP, CUR, DCS, DCX, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCT, PCX, PEF, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PXR, RAS, SCI, SCT, SHG, SVG (output), TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WBMP, WMF

Digital Device Support

Digital cameras, USB card readers, TWAIN/WIA compliant scanners

Pressure-sensitive graphics tablets

RAW Format Support
ARW, BAY, CR2, CRW, CS1, DCR, DNG, ERF, FFF, HDR, K25, KDC, MEF, MOS, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, PNM, RAF, RAW, SR2, SRF, STI, X3F