MAGIX Photo Premium 9 User manual

Category
Video software
Type
User manual

MAGIX Photo Premium 9 offers extensive image editing, professional graphics, intuitive layout functions, and the ability to create impressive slideshows. It allows you to optimize and enhance photos, design creative collages, create graphics and illustrations, and produce multimedia slideshows complete with music, effects, and animated menus. The program also includes a range of templates, effects, and tools to help you bring your creative ideas to life.

MAGIX Photo Premium 9 offers extensive image editing, professional graphics, intuitive layout functions, and the ability to create impressive slideshows. It allows you to optimize and enhance photos, design creative collages, create graphics and illustrations, and produce multimedia slideshows complete with music, effects, and animated menus. The program also includes a range of templates, effects, and tools to help you bring your creative ideas to life.

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MAGIX Photo Premium 9 sets new standards in image
design with its unique combination of extensive image
editing, professional graphics and layout functions,
impressive slideshow creation, and diverse presentation
options.
The program's large range of functions for designing individual
photo creations is without equal. Experience your most
beautiful pictures as posters, calendars, or fascinating
slideshows on TV, the Internet, or mobile devices!
Image editing
Portrait optimization
Graphic design
Slideshows
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For professional results
This innovative all-around package includes the two
best-selling photo programs MAGIX Xtreme Photo &
Graphic Designer 5, the universal design program for
creative image ideas and MAGIX PhotoStory on CD &
DVD 9 deluxe, the convenient solution for multimedia
slideshows by MAGIX, the leading multimedia
company*.
Take advantage of the modern functions for in-depth
image & graphic design, quick photo optimization,
sophisticated image editing, intelligent graphic design
and convenient layout functions.
Image editing
Non-destructive real-time editing
Free collages & creative effects
Panorama montages and more
Graphic design
Draw & illustrate intuitively
3D design & text layout
1000 customizable templates
and more
Slideshows
Fully automatic creation
Detailed design options
CD/DVD authoring with
interactive menus and more
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Fantastic multimedia slideshows
Experience your most precious memories as exciting TV shows: Simply import photos and video recordings,
easily transform them into exciting slideshows with text, music and effects, burn them to disc with DVD
menus and enjoy them on TV with your DVD player, or export them to the web, digital picture frames, or
mobile players.
You can have the program create automatic
slideshows for you (NEW! Automation) or
you can add your own personal touch.
NEW! Travel route animation
Use online maps to show your audience all the
places your journey took you.
For professional results
High-resolution slideshows for
TV, PC, and the web
Create Blu-ray Discs™ complete
with animated menus
RAW support for over 280
camera models**
Individual zooms & pans
3D conversion, effects,
animations & transition series
Present photos and slideshows
directly on YouTube™
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Perfect image optimization & creative image editing
Thanks to quick real-time editing features, you can retouch, crop, and edit pictures in detail. Your originals
always remain unchanged (non-destructive editing). Optimize your images in uncompressed RAW format**
for loss-free results.
Fast optimization
Transform your snapshots into photo masterpieces
with only a few clicks
NEW! Intelligent scaling
Change image formats without distorting important
image content
Artistic design
With over 50 creative effects
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Free picture collages
Combine sections of images into new image
compositions
PLUS! Portrait optimization
With Reallusion® FaceFilter Studio™ 2
SE
Photo caricatures
With "Liquid color" (NEW! User guidance)
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Restore photos
Retouch tears, wrinkles, or faded colors
NEW! Remove unwanted objects
With the automatic "Cloning" feature (manually, too)
Panorama montage
Incl. exposure distance recognition and lens
distortion correction
Convert photos into graphics
Precise vectorization with the "Bitmap Tracer"
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Intuitive graphic design & layout
Still need nice titles on your photos for your album? Want to design a multi-page brochure or create
complex illustrations? Take advantage of the unique design freedom of MAGIX Photo Premium 9.
Intuitive graphic design
With various drawing tools and output options
3D design
For text, graphics and photos, incl. light reflections
and shadows
Text & layout
Incl. text flowing around graphics and photos
NEW! Spell checker
MORE! Templates
For private and professional use, hobby, school,
studies, club
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Program interfaces
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Well-connected: MAGIX Online Services
Discover the possibilities offered by MAGIX Online
World! Every MAGIX product offers a direct and
easy-to-use gateway to the world of online
multimedia.
Your slideshow in your Online Album or
worldwide in Internet communities
Personalized websites in professional Flash
®
design with photos, videos & music
Order brilliant photo prints to be sent directly
to your doorstep. It's quick, easy, and well-
priced!
Experience these and many more online services on
www.magix-online.com
Do you have any questions?
At magix.info, our Multimedia Knowledge
Community, you'll receive quick and direct
answers to all of your questions about photography:
Just write in the text field and send your questions
online.
magix.info – Ask. Learn. Discuss.
MAGIX Screenshare makes it possible to share the
contents of your screen with other users live over the
Internet. Users who install MAGIX Screenshare can
see each others' screens and admire photo and
video slideshows created by others.
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The best for your pictures, graphics & slideshows
IMAGE EDITING
Optimization Crop, brightness, contrast, NEW! Color temperature, color fill, saturation,
tone value correction, white balance, focus, horizon leveling, and much
more (non-destructive, including automatisations)
Detailed editing
Crop objects (e.g. "magnetic lasso", "magic ward", feathering, "cloning"),
restore image faults and more
Image design
Collages, photo montages, draw in photos, add text & graphics, 3D
conversion, 1-click panorama montages, and more
Intelligent scaling NEW! Change image formats without distorting important image content
Artistic distortion
50 creative effects (oil painting, pencil drawing, etc.), free distortion ("liquid
paint"), supports Photoshop
®
compatible filters, and much more
Face retouching
Optimize skin and complexions and add attractive or funny facial
expressions, NEW! correct red eyes caused by flashes (non-destructive)
Multi-picture options NEW! Assistant for uncomplicated creation of screen captures, apply
editing steps to other photos
GRAPHICS
Draw freehand
Real-time tools, line smoothing, color gradients, fill, transparency,
contours, edges, shadows, "morphing", color link, edge smoothing, and
much more.
3D design
Transform shapes, text, or photos into 3D objects with realistic
perspectives, light reflections, and shadows.
Vectorize photos
Transform photos into freely scalable vector graphics ("Bitmap Tracer")
Text & typography Detailed design, text flow around objects and photos, NEW! Spell checker
Animations Transform photos, shapes and text into NEW! Interactive animations
Advanced options NEW! Object gallery for overview of the contents on all layers
SLIDESHOW
Intuitive creation NEW! Automation for stylish results in record time, with new thematic style
templates (30 in total)
Detailed design Arrange slideshows in detail (NEW! Individual backgrounds for text)
Effects & animations
200 templates for zooms, pans, 3D animations, decorations, transitions,
picture-in-picture, splitscreen NEW! 3D text, artistic filters, video stabilizer,
fast/slow motion, etc.
Audio dubbing NEW! Songs and sounds (500 in total), Soundtrack Maker, recording,
sound optimization, NEW! Music Editor 3, rhythmic image changes
TV slideshows with
interactive DVD menus
Creates all commonly used disc types (DVD, (S)VCD, Blu-ray Disc™)
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incl. NEW! animated menu templates (80 in total)
Present on mobile devices &
online
Free album website, IMPROVED! YouTube™ upload, export to mobile
players and digital picture frames, and more
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OUTPUT
Multi-page documents
Flexibly design & edit and export in various ways
Templates for private and
professional use, school,
studies, clubs, and more
MORE! More than 250 templates: photo albums, calendars, greeting
cards, office materials (business cards, letterhead, etc.), advertising
materials (e.g. brochures, flyers), CD/DVD cases, logos and lettering, and
much more
Clip art graphics Over 1,000 customizable graphics, symbols, NEW! Standard shapes, etc.
Photo printing
Scan and print single images, series, and graphics
Desktop publishing
Export for printing companies, too
Presentations NEW! Export as website (HTML) or interactive PDF (incl.
templates and 500 MB free webspace)
PDF files
Import, edit, extract, and export
SUPPORTED FORMATS
Image import MORE! RAW formats**, JPEG, NEW! JPEG2000, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PSD
(with layers), PNG, TGA, PCX, PPM, PGM, PBM, MS Paint, MacPaint,
PICT, TARGA and many more
Image export
JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, PSD, TGA, RAS, PPM, PGM, PCX, and
more
Graphic import
PDF, EPS, AI, XAR, WEB, CDR, CDT, CMX, DRW, AFF, ACO, ACT, PAL,
CPL, CMX, HTM, HTML and many more
Graphic export
GIF, PDF, EPS, AI, XAR, WEB, CMX, HTM, HTML, DCX, PCX, RAS,
WPG, WIX and many more
Video & audio
Imports MOV; imports/exports AVI, WMV 9, MPEG-1&2
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; MPEG-4
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NEW! Import and burn high-resolution AVCHD videos incl. AC3 sound
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,
imports camera sound, non-copy protected CD tracks, MP3, OGG, WAV
and more / audio capture
Additional formats
Imports and exports RTF documents, exports Flash® (SWF), TIFF (incl.
CMYK support), SVG files, imports WMF, EMF, and files from the Internet
(FTP)
PLUS!
Reallusion
®
FaceFilter Studio
2 SE
Revolutionary optimization of facial expressions &
features
NEW! MAGIX Photo Manager 9
Manage and archive photos & videos
NEW! mufin player
Discover and enjoy music
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System requirements
For Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP I Vista
I 7
Minimum configuration:
Intel
®
Pentium
®
or AMD
®
Athlon
®
1 GHz or higher
Min. 512 MB RAM
Min. 3 GB free hard drive space for program and video files
16-bit sound card, DVD drive, Microsoft
®
compatible mouse
SVGA graphics card with min. 32 MB RAM, PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe: min. resolution
1024 x 600. Additional programs included: min. resolution 1024 x 768 at 16-bit high-color
3D power effects with OpenGL/DirectX 9 support and Microsoft
®
Windows Media Player
version 7.0 or higher
Min. 32 MB XVGA card memory recommended for 3D power effects in HD slideshows (64 MB
recommended)
MAGIX Online Services, travel route animation, and integrated browser require an Internet
connection, Microsoft® Internet Explorer™ version 6.0 or higher
Min. 56k modem for transferring screen contents via the Internet. ISDN or higher Internet
connection recommended
MP3 export requires Windows Media Player™ installation, version 10 or higher
Minimum requirements for hardware accelerated preview: DirectX® 9.0c compatible graphics
card, min. 128 MB graphics card memory (256 MB+ recommended), and Pixelshader 2.0, ATI
X300 and better, NVIDIA® GeForce® 6600 and better
Optional:
Creates CDs with SCSI or IDE CD-R(W) burners, DVDs with DVD+/-R(W) burners and Blu-ray
Discs™ with Blu-ray burner
USB, USB2, serial port and suitable cable for data transmission from digital cameras
Scanner with 32-bit TWAIN interface, color printer
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What the press has to say!
These press comments refer to the previous versions,
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PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 and
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MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 2.
*From the leading multimedia company: MAGIX sold the most products of all publishers in the European retail segment for "photo,
video and music software". Based on: GfK Weekly TrendSetter Software / Germany; GfK Panelmarket Software Benelux, Spain,
France; Chart Track UK; Period: April, 2009 to April, 2010. [As of April, 2010]
** 54-time award winner refers to the following versions of the included programs: MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD (classic and
deluxe versions): 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and MAGIX Xtreme Photo & Graphic Designer 2, 1. Award wins from other countries refer to the
country-specific versions. More information at www.magix.com.
** For an updated list of all compatible camera models, see www.magix.com
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MPEG-2 codec can be used immediately after free activation. MPEG-4, AVCHD and AC3 codecs after a fee-based activation.
PhotoStory on CD & DVD deluxe: Copyright © MAGIX AG, 2002 – 2010
Xtreme Photo Designer : Copyright © MAGIX AG, 2000-2010.
Photo Manager: Copyright © MAGIX AG, 2003 – 2010.
Xtreme Graphic Designer: Copyright © Xara Group Ltd., 1994 –2010.
All rights reserved.
Xara is a registered trademark of Xara Group Ltd.
Xara Group Ltd. is an affiliate company of MAGIX AG.
MAGIX is a registered trademark of MAGIX AG.
Other mentioned product names may be registered trademarks of their respective owners.
This product uses MAGIX patent pending technology.
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MAGIX Photo Premium 9 User manual

Category
Video software
Type
User manual

MAGIX Photo Premium 9 offers extensive image editing, professional graphics, intuitive layout functions, and the ability to create impressive slideshows. It allows you to optimize and enhance photos, design creative collages, create graphics and illustrations, and produce multimedia slideshows complete with music, effects, and animated menus. The program also includes a range of templates, effects, and tools to help you bring your creative ideas to life.

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