PHOTOIMPACT PRO 11 -
FEATURE SUMMARY

Capture & Organize

• Easy Transfer from your digital camera to your PC
• New! Optimized for High-Resolution Cameras
• Enhanced! Photo Browsing: Now lightning fast!
• Still Image Capture from camcorders and web cams
• Keywords for fast photo searching
• Photo Archiving

Correct & Enhance

• Precise Adjustment of lighting, color cast, saturation, skin tone, focus, red eye and more.
• Scratch Removal
• Easy Erasing: Remove individual elements in a photo.
• Rotate, Flip, Straighten and Crop
• Expert Camera Filters including Moon filter, Sunlight filter, Diffraction filter and Beautify Skin filter
• Batch Processing lets you convert or fix multiple photos at once.
• Enhanced! High Dynamic Range brings out real-world luminance.

Share

• Expanded! Paper-Saving Layouts: Print multiple photos, posters, cards and more.
• Expanded! 1,500+ Scrapbook Embellishments
• Improved! TV Slide Shows you can view using a set-top DVD player (VCD format).
• Web Albums and Slide Shows
• Screen Savers and Wallpaper.
• New! Save for Mobile: Easily save photos to display on your mobile phone, PDA, iPod, or PSP®.

Easy to Use!

• Improved! Basic Mode
• EasyPalette™ lets you drag-and-drop filter and effect presets.
• On-Screen Video Tutorial
• FREE Book: Get tips from the pros with the ultimate guide to digital photography.

Productive Workspace

• Improved! Basic Mode
• New! My Workspace: The right tools for every project!
• Expanded! EasyPalette™ lets you drag-and-drop filter and effect presets.
• 200 Levels of Undo
• Direct Select: Select objects on other layers simply by clicking them.

Design Tools

• Paint Tool: 12 brush types, including Airbrush, Oil Paint and Marker.
• Clone Tool to duplicate areas within an image.
• Improved! Object Extraction Wizard: Easily move complex objects to new backgrounds.
• New! Layer Masks with customized transparency
• Transform Tool: Resize, Slant, Distort, Perspective and Rotate. Even rotate in Virtual 3D!
• New! Vignettes: Make portraits stand out with soft-edge oval frames.
• Dozens of Type Effects
• Graphics Table Support with pressure-sensitive tools

Special Effects

• Creative Transform: Distort images freely with your mouse.
• Lighting Effects: Spotlight, Lens Flare, Halo and more.
• Material Effects: Simulated Glass, Leather, Creased Paper and other realistic textures.
• Painting Effects: Oil Paint, Finger Paint, Charcoal and more.
• New! Soft Edges for striking montages

2D & 3D Graphics

• Vector Drawing Tools: Create 2D and 3D curves, shapes and lines.
• Enhanced! On-Screen Text Tool: Edit and format 2D and 3D text directly in the workspace.
• Bevels: Apply round, chisel, trim, pipe and custom bevels to text or graphics.

Web Graphics

• Improved! Component Designer: Buttons, banners, bullets, dividers, icons and more
• Background Designer: Create auto-tiling backgrounds.
• Resize Tools: Crop & re-sample images to find the ideal size.
• JavaScript® Rollovers that remain editable
• Image Map Tools make it easy to create hot links on any image.
• Image Optimizer: Show before & after optimization results, images sizes & download times.
• Image Preview: Show before & after optimization results, image sizes & download times.
• WYSIWYG Web Page Layout: What you see is what you get!

Animation

• Object-Based Model makes animation easier and more powerful.
• 300+ Ready-Made GIF Animations
• Sophisticated Text Handling, including anti-aliasing, shadow, neon and gradient fill effects
• Round-Trip Image Editing: Edit frames in PhotoImpact Pro, and changes take place immediately with no need to update manually.
• Output as Animated GIF, Flash (SWF) and more.

JavaScript Effects

• Interactive Effects: Blink Text, Highlight Text, Pop-up Menu, Rainbow Text, Rollover Text, Vertical Scroll, Status Bar Message and more
• Javascript Slideshows with no need for coding

Graphics for Video

• New! Save Images for Video: Output GIF and PNG images with transparent alpha channel layers for video overlays.
• New! Complete DVD Menu Library
• Export Animations as AVI, QuickTime and MPEG to include in movies.