Ulead PHOTOIMPACT 11 User manual

User Guide

Ulead Systems, Inc.

August 2005

First edition for Ulead® PhotoImpact® 11, August 2005.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED ........................................13

Overview of the programs ................................................... 14

PhotoImpact ............................................................................. 14

Album ...................................................................................... 14

GIF Animator ............................................................................. 14

Photo Explorer ........................................................................... 15

Ulead COOL 360 ........................................................................ 15

What’s new ......................................................................... 15

The PhotoImpact difference ......................................................... 15

Enhanced photo editing .............................................................. 16

Complete creative suite .............................................................. 16

Introduction to the workspace ............................................ 17

The Welcome Screen .................................................................. 17

Overview: User Interface ............................................................ 18

Panel Manager ......................................................................... 21

Layer Manager .................................................................. 21

Selection Manager .............................................................21

Document Manager ...........................................................21

Browse Manager ...............................................................22

EasyPalette ......................................................................22

Color Panel ....................................................................... 22

Quick Command Panel .......................................................23

Tool Settings .................................................................... 23

Histogram Panel ................................................................23

Toolbox ................................................................................... 23

Personalizing My Workspace ............................................... 23

Setting Preferences .................................................................... 23

Floating and docking toolbars and panels ...................................... 24

Using the Customize dialog box ................................................... 24

About PhotoImpact dialog boxes ......................................... 25

Using quick samples ................................................................... 25

Split View and Dual View ............................................................. 26

Using the EasyPalette .......................................................... 27

About EasyPalette galleries and libraries ....................................... 29

Creating and organizing your galleries and object libraries ............... 29

Loading and unloading galleries and libraries ................................ 29

Packaging galleries and libraries .................................................30

Organizing your tab groups ........................................................ 30

Using your images as preview thumbnails ..................................... 32

Adding custom effects to the EasyPalette ...................................... 32

Customizing the EasyPalette ........................................................ 33

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Modifying and adding Galleries thumbnails .................................... 33

Using Variations in the EasyPalette galleries .................................34

Basics .................................................................................. 35

Creating new images .................................................................. 35

Creating an image for DVD menus ..............................................36

Opening image files ................................................................... 36

Partially loading images .............................................................37

Opening CMYK files .................................................................... 38

Using the Browse Manager .......................................................... 38

Digital Camera Wizard ................................................................ 40

Acquiring images from scanners .................................................. 41

Acquiring images from WIA devices .............................................. 42

Viewing images ......................................................................... 42

Zooming on an image ................................................................43

Adding a view ..........................................................................43

Using the Global Viewer .............................................................43

Different viewing modes ............................................................44

Cropping an image ..................................................................... 44

Perspective Crop ....................................................................... 46

Converting between data types ................................................... 46

Resizing an image ...................................................................... 47

Changing resolution ..................................................................47

Changing dimensions by resampling ............................................48

Using the clipboard .................................................................... 48

Performing cut and copy operations ............................................48

Performing a paste operation .....................................................49

Pasting images as objects ..........................................................49

Pasting images into a selection area ............................................49

Pasting images to fit into a selection area ....................................50

Pasting images as new images ...................................................50

Pasting images beneath the mouse pointer ...................................50

The Clipboard submenu .............................................................50

Duplicating images ....................................................................51

Recovering from mistakes ........................................................... 51

Saving images .......................................................................... 52

Save for Mobile ........................................................................53

AutoSave .................................................................................53

Printing .................................................................................... 53

Calibrating your printer .............................................................53

Color Management ..................................................................... 54

Using Print Preview ...................................................................55

More print options .....................................................................56

Print Multiple ............................................................................56

Print Poster ..............................................................................57

Images and the Web .................................................................. 58

Sending images ........................................................................58

Acquiring images from the Internet .............................................59

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Changing indexed image colors .................................................... 59

Making a screen capture ............................................................. 60

Using plug-ins ........................................................................... 62

CHAPTER 2: PHOTO EDITING ............................................63

Enhancing digital camera photos using ExpressFix .............. 64

Enhancing digital camera photos using RAW data support .. 66

Handling 48-bit images ....................................................... 67

Adjusting and enhancing your images ................................. 68

White Balance ........................................................................... 76

Enhancement effects ........................................................... 77

Enhance Lighting ....................................................................... 77

Blur ......................................................................................... 77

Motion Blur .............................................................................. 78

Edge Preserving Blur .................................................................78

Flatten Uneven Area .................................................................79

Zoom Blur ...............................................................................79

Sharpen ................................................................................... 80

Noise ....................................................................................... 80

Enhance ................................................................................... 80

Beautify Skin ........................................................................... 81

Diffuse Glow ............................................................................ 81

Sunlight ..................................................................................82

Film Grain ............................................................................... 83

Add Moon ................................................................................ 84

Lens Filters ............................................................................... 85

Diffraction Filter .......................................................................85

Multivision Filter .......................................................................86

Star Filter ................................................................................87

Lens Distortion .......................................................................... 88

Correcting Chromatic Aberration .................................................. 89

Adding Vignette ......................................................................... 90

High Dynamic Range ........................................................... 91

Enhancing the dynamic range of an image with SmartCurves ........... 92

Creating and saving a camera curve profile ................................... 92

Composing an HDR image using multiple images ............................ 94

Optimizing the HDR image .......................................................... 96

Editing the HDR image ................................................................ 97

SmartRemove ........................................................................... 97

Using the Retouch Tools ...................................................... 99

Using the Burn and Dodge Tools ................................................ 100

Removing red eye .................................................................... 100

Changing the colors of an image ................................................ 101

Cloning parts of an image .................................................. 103

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Using the Touch-up Tool ............................................................104

Working with scanned images ........................................... 105

Auto-process - Batch .................................................................105

Stitching images together ..........................................................106

Automatic stitching ................................................................. 107

Manual stitching ..................................................................... 107

Adding a frame and photo caption ...............................................108

CHAPTER 3: SELECTIONS & OBJECTS ..............................111

Working with selections .................................................... 112

Pick Tool .................................................................................112

Standard Selection Tool - selecting regularly shaped areas .............112

Lasso Tool - selecting irregularly shaped areas .............................113

Magic Wand Tool - selecting an area containing similar colors .........115

Determining color similarity ...................................................... 116

Extracting objects .....................................................................117

Step 1 of 4: Drawing the boundary ........................................... 117

Step 2 of 4: Extracting the object ............................................. 118

Step 3 of 4: Adjusting degree of extraction ................................ 118

Step 4 of 4: Refining the object ................................................ 119

Mask Mode ..............................................................................119

Layer mask and object mask ......................................................121

Moving a selection area marquee ................................................123

Preserving the base image .........................................................123

Creating smooth-edged selection areas ........................................123

Softening a selection edge .........................................................124

Creating a border around a selection ...........................................124

Select by Color Range ...............................................................125

Adding to or subtracting from a selection .....................................126

Expanding a selection area ........................................................126

Selecting on objects ..................................................................126

Using the Selection Manager ......................................................127

Using a selection .................................................................... 127

Working with objects ........................................................ 128

Managing object layers ..............................................................128

Hiding and showing objects ........................................................129

Using the Object Properties dialog box ....................................... 129

Using the Layer Manager ......................................................... 129

Sorting objects .........................................................................129

Grouping and ungrouping objects ...............................................130

Changing an object’s layer in an image ........................................130

Setting an object’s properties .....................................................131

Editing objects .........................................................................131

Using Defringe .........................................................................131

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Match Background Color ........................................................... 132

Adding a shadow to an object .................................................... 133

Separating a shadow from its object ......................................... 133

Copying and moving an object between images ........................... 134

Duplicating an object ................................................................ 134

Deleting an object .................................................................... 134

Spacing and aligning objects ..................................................... 135

Using object libraries ........................................................ 136

Saving selections to the object libraries ....................................... 136

Using an image or selection from the Object Library ..................... 137

Making a lower-third ......................................................... 138

Using the Measure Tool ..................................................... 139

Using the Transform Tool .................................................. 140

Rotating images ....................................................................... 141

Straightening images .............................................................. 142

3D transformation .................................................................. 142

Working with Object Eraser Tools ..................................... 144

Using the Stamp Tool ........................................................ 145

Guidelines and grid ........................................................... 146

CHAPTER 4: USING THE PAINTING AND FILL TOOLS ......147

Using the Painting Tools .................................................... 148

Erasing ................................................................................... 149

Customizing Paint Tools ............................................................ 150

Using Paint Tool presets .......................................................... 150

Using the Tool Settings panel ................................................... 150

Special Paint Tools and Tricks .................................................... 151

Using the Particle Brush ........................................................... 151

Using the Drop Water Tool ....................................................... 152

Painting with textures ............................................................. 152

Painting an outline or border .................................................... 153

Using Paint as Object mode ..................................................... 154

Editing active objects only ......................................................... 155

Using the Fill Tools ............................................................ 156

Choosing a Gradient Fill method ................................................. 157

Filling an area with a texture ..................................................... 159

Performing drag-and-drop texture and gradient fills .................... 160

Working with Colors .......................................................... 161

Using the PhotoImpact Color Picker ............................................ 161

Picking colors from an image or entire screen .............................. 163

Changing foreground and background colors ................................ 163

Using the Color Panel ............................................................... 163

The Color tab ......................................................................... 163

Setting a Single-color ...................................................... 164

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Setting a Gradient color ................................................... 165

Swatches tab ......................................................................... 165

Gradients tab ......................................................................... 166

Color Table tab ....................................................................... 167

Understanding Indexed color images .................................. 167

Editing the Color Table ..................................................... 167

Loading and saving color tables ......................................... 168

CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH TEXT AND PATHS ..............169

Adding text ....................................................................... 170

Tool Settings ............................................................................171

Style ..................................................................................... 171

3D ........................................................................................ 172

Split Text ............................................................................... 172

Options ................................................................................. 172

Applying text effects .................................................................172

Editing text as a path object .......................................................173

Saving text objects ...................................................................174

Working with paths ........................................................... 174

Creating paths .........................................................................174

The Path Drawing Tool ..............................................................175

The Shape menus ................................................................... 176

Creating paths with the Path Drawing Tool .......................... 177

Customizing 3D path objects ............................................. 178

Saving custom paths and attributes ................................... 178

The Outline Drawing Tool ......................................................... 179

The Line and Arrow Tool .......................................................... 181

Drawing curves and custom paths ............................................. 182

Spline Tool ..................................................................... 182

Drawing curves and custom paths ............................................. 182

Spline Tool ..................................................................... 182

Bezier Tool ..................................................................... 184

Freehand Tool ................................................................. 185

Drawing multiple paths ............................................................ 187

Importing Adobe Illustrator files ............................................... 188

Tool Settings .......................................................................... 189

Filling a path with the Even-Odd Fill option .......................... 189

Editing paths ............................................................................190

Deforming the path shape ........................................................ 191

Using the Path Edit Tool ........................................................... 192

Editing basic shapes or line and arrow paths ....................... 192

Editing polygon shapes ..................................................... 195

Editing multiple paths ...................................................... 197

Grouping and ungrouping paths ......................................... 197

Using the Bezier Curve Tool .......................................................198

Tracing and converting images into paths ....................................200

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Adding 3D properties ......................................................... 201

The Material dialog box ............................................................. 203

Color/Texture ......................................................................... 203

Bevel .................................................................................... 203

Bevel Settings ........................................................................ 204

Reflection .............................................................................. 204

Transparency ......................................................................... 204

Border .................................................................................. 205

Shadow ................................................................................. 205

Light ..................................................................................... 205

Shading ................................................................................ 205

Bump .................................................................................... 205

Making the surface of 3D objects smoother ................................. 206

Creating transparent objects ..................................................... 206

Using bump maps .................................................................... 207

Saving material properties to the EasyPalette ............................. 207

Type effects ....................................................................... 208

Wrap effects ...................................................................... 209

Applying wrap effects from the EasyPalette ................................. 209

Creating your own wrap effects .................................................. 210

Modifying wrap effects .............................................................. 210

Bending text objects ................................................................. 214

The Z-Merge Tool ............................................................... 215

CHAPTER 6: SPECIAL EFFECTS ........................................217

Applying preset effects from the

EasyPalette ......................................................................... 218

Applying special effects ..................................................... 218

Lights ..................................................................................... 219

Artistic ................................................................................... 220

Brick Tiles .............................................................................. 220

Cartoon ................................................................................. 221

Contour Drawing .................................................................... 222

Engraving .............................................................................. 223

Finger Paint ........................................................................... 225

Impressionist ......................................................................... 226

Mosaic Tiles ........................................................................... 227

Pen and Ink ........................................................................... 228

Screening .............................................................................. 229

Distort .................................................................................. 230

Custom Effect ........................................................................ 230

Creative Transform ................................................................. 231

Crystal and Glass .................................................................... 231

Magic Gradient ........................................................................ 231

Paint on Edges ......................................................................... 232

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Turnpage .................................................................................233

DeInterlace ..............................................................................234

Animation effects .............................................................. 234

Frame-based animations ...........................................................235

Playing a frame-based animation .............................................. 236

Storyboard-based animations .....................................................237

Saving animations ....................................................................239

Saving GIF animation options ................................................... 239

Kaleidoscope Fill .......................................................................240

Texture Filter ...........................................................................241

Creative Warp ..........................................................................242

Crystal and Glass ......................................................................243

Creative Lighting ......................................................................244

Particle Effect ...........................................................................245

Creative Transform ...................................................................247

Type Effect ..............................................................................248

CHAPTER 7: BATCH PROCESSING ...................................249

Using the Quick Command Panel ....................................... 250

Using tasks in the EasyPalette ....................................................251

Using the History Tab ................................................................252

Applying commands to multiple files ................................. 253

Batch Manager .........................................................................253

Batch Convert ..........................................................................254

Batch test in Image Optimizer ....................................................254

CHAPTER 8: ALL FOR THE WEB .......................................255

Images for the Web ........................................................... 256

Opening an image/UFO file from a Web page ................................256

Opening a Web page as a single image ........................................257

Creating a Web background image ..............................................257

Using Background Designer ...................................................... 258

Shifting a Web background ...................................................... 259

Creating a seamlessly tiled background ..................................... 260

Button Designer .......................................................................261

Slice Tool ................................................................................262

Image Map Tool .......................................................................264

Creating object-based image maps ........................................... 265

Creating manual image maps ................................................... 265

Optimizing file sizes and quality for the Web .................................267

Basic controls in Image Optimizer ............................................. 267

Optimizing an image as a JPEG ...................................................268

Optimizing an image as a GIF .....................................................269

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Optimizing an image as a PNG ................................................... 270

Testing your files with different settings ...................................... 271

Objects for the Web ........................................................... 271

Objects on a Web page ............................................................. 272

Linking multimedia objects ........................................................ 272

Editing Linked objects ............................................................. 273

HTML Text objects .................................................................... 274

Converting HTML Text objects to image objects ............................ 275

Component objects .................................................................. 276

Rollover button ...................................................................... 277

Script effects ..................................................................... 279

Advanced rollover button .......................................................... 284

Web Slide Show ....................................................................... 285

Web pages ......................................................................... 286

Structure of a Web page ........................................................... 287

Creating a new Web page ......................................................... 288

Using the Web Properties dialog box ......................................... 288

General tab .................................................................... 288

Background tab ............................................................... 289

Image File tab ................................................................ 289

Slice tab ........................................................................ 289

HTML tab ....................................................................... 290

Adding Web images and objects to your Web page ...................... 290

Exporting a Web page ....................................................... 290

Previewing in a browser ............................................................ 291

Saving for the Web .................................................................. 291

Send using default e-mail program ............................................. 292

Tutorial: Putting a Web page together ............................... 292

GIF Animator ..................................................................... 294

CHAPTER 9: COMMANDS ................................................. 295

Command descriptions ...................................................... 296

Menus and dialog boxes ............................................................ 296

File Menu ............................................................................... 296

Edit Menu .............................................................................. 297

Adjust Menu .......................................................................... 298

Photo Menu ........................................................................... 299

Effect Menu ........................................................................... 300

Selection Menu ....................................................................... 300

Object Menu .......................................................................... 301

Web Menu ............................................................................. 303

View Menu ............................................................................. 304

My Workspace Menu ............................................................... 304

Window Menu ........................................................................ 305

Help Menu ............................................................................. 306

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Toolbox ...................................................................................306

Panel Manager .........................................................................307

Layer Manager and Selection Manager ....................................... 307

Document Manager ................................................................. 309

Browse Manager ..................................................................... 310

EasyPalette ............................................................................ 311

Color Panel ............................................................................ 311

Quick Command Panel ............................................................. 312

Tool Settings .......................................................................... 312

Histogram Panel ..................................................................... 312

Index ................................................................................ 313

1

GETTING STARTED

This chapter explains the concepts behind PhotoImpact's user

interface, beginning with a walkthrough of the workspace and its

various components, followed by detailed descriptions of the various

panels and toolbars and ways on customizing your PhotoImpact

workspace. You will also learn how to use the EasyPalette and some of

the basic program functions.

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Overview of the programs

The following is a brief overview of the programs included in the PhotoImpact

package:

PhotoImpact

PhotoImpact is an all-in-one image editing solution for photo enhancement,

graphic design, and Web design. With a wealth of tools at your fingertips, there’s

virtually no limit to the images you can create for great-looking images for your

home, business or school projects. The major program features are listed below:

Digital Photography Offers professional techniques to enhance your photos.

PhotoImpact’s advanced, yet fun and easy-to-use digital imaging tools, are all you

need to give your photos that professional edge.

Integrated Web tools Allow you to visually create entire Web pages containing

interactive rollovers and buttons as well as Javascript effects without the hassle of

coding. Since Web pages are saved in the object-based UFO file format, you can

update and edit Web page content any time.

Powerful graphic imaging tools provide you with a host of features for Web and

creative design.

Productivity functions Let you work with a number of image files simultaneously

for maximum speed and ease.

Album

Album is a powerful tool for multimedia file management. Not only can you

organize and catalog your files visually through thumbnails, but you can create

your own database that you can edit and update. Album also provides convenient

tools for sharing your images over the Internet.

GIF Animator

Ulead GIF Animator is a powerful tool for creating high impact animation for Web

pages, presentations, and multimedia titles. Composing, editing, and applying

special effects can all be done in GIF Animator. The program also gives you total

control over optimization and making animations compact and Web-ready while

retaining excellent image quality. When producing the final animation file, a variety

of file formats are available, including animated GIF, Windows AVI, QuickTime,

Autodesk animation, image sequences, and even Flash animation.

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Photo Explorer

Ulead Photo Explorer gives you everything you need to quickly acquire, manage,

enhance, and share digital photos, audio, and video files. It is the perfect

companion to digital cameras, WebCams, DV camcorders and scanners.

Ulead COOL 360

With Ulead® COOL 360™, you can combine a series of photos into 360° or wide

angle panoramic scenes.

• Create 360° and wide-angle photo panoramas in just 3 steps.

• Automated warping, aligning, and blending deliver great results fast.

• Directly output to e-mail, the Web, office documents, screen savers and

printers.

What’s new

PhotoImpact is a complete image-editing suite with easy-to-use tools for all your

image and photo-editing needs. Advanced features match today’s sophisticated

cameras. Extensive creative tools help you realize your vision. Whether you're new

to digital photography or want to take creative expression to the next level,

PhotoImpact makes professional image editing easy.

The PhotoImpact difference

• My Workspace The My Workspace interface system gives you layouts with

the right tools for the project at hand.

• SmartCurves New SmartCurves is automatic image adjustment that

compensates for camera response curve anomalies. SmartCurves uses

advanced HDR imaging technology to calibrate custom camera curves.

• Object Extraction Wizard* Allows you to professionally extract objects

from images. You can compose your own scene with ease. Just paint around

the edge of your subject, click on the background, extract and refine.

• SmartRemove Scene Compositor New SmartRemove lets you selectively

paint out moving elements from multiple shots of the same scene, so you

can compose an image with just the elements you want.

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Enhanced photo editing

• 16-bit/RAW/DNG support RAW processing lets you adjust image

exposure, temperature, saturation before converting to 8- or 16-bit images.

Edit images in high-quality 16-bit per channel color depth.

• White Balance Correct white-balance problems caused by tungsten/

fluorescent lights or insufficient lighting. Adjust color temperature and tint to

suit the mood of the image.

• Correct Chromatic Aberration Clean up chromatic aberration and “purple

fringing” in images taken with some of today’s high-resolution, small-sized

sensors.

• Add Vignette Create soft-edge oval frames that make your portraits stand

out. With this “spotlight” effect, you can draw viewers’ eyes to your subject

and reduce distracting background elements.

• Save for Mobile Easily save files to display on mobile devices such as your

cellular phone and PDA.

Complete creative suite

• Layer Manager* Now you can link and unlink objects to selection masks

allowing you to change the object’s position and adjust the layer mask’s size

and properties.

• Intuitive Selection tools* Make selections based on what you can see

without selecting unwanted hidden elements.

• DVD Menu library The EasyPalette comes with DVD backgrounds, buttons,

and frames for use with any DVD-authoring application. You can also take

advantage of 20 customizable Ulead® DVD Workshop™ menu templates.

• Lower-third graphics Now you can create customized lower-third graphics

with the Component Designer for use with Ulead VideoStudio, Ulead

MediaStudio Pro and other video-editing applications.

• Soft Edge on objects* Add soft feathery edges for striking montages and

smooth alpha-channel video overlays.

• Save images for video Generate GIF & PNG images with transparent alpha-

channel layers for export as video overlays.

• Component Designer Take advantage of this innovative 3-step approach to

designing Web page buttons, banners, rollovers, icons and more.

* Indicates enhanced tools and features.

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Introduction to the workspace

The PhotoImpact workspace can be displayed in Basic Photo, Standard Photo,

Graphics, Web, or Advanced Modes which contain specific sets of tools

depending on what you want to do in the program.

When starting PhotoImpact for

the first time, you are prompted to choose your workspace mode, whether Basic

Photo Mode or Standard Photo Mode.

A Welcome Screen, which displays basic

tasks, opens when you start PhotoImpact in Basic Photo Mode. Read the following

sections to familiarize yourself more with the PhotoImpact workspace.

• Basic Photo Mode offers a simpler workspace view with larger icons,

displaying tools that address the more common tasks. This mode helps new

users to easily learn the main tools of the program, and provides those users

mainly interested in using basic program functions with a clean and intuitive

workspace.

• Standard Photo Mode displays photo-related functions on the workspace.

• Graphics Mode displays graphic-related functions on the workspace.

• Web Mode gives you tools to create images for the Web.

• Advanced Mode displays the entire PhotoImpact toolset allowing you to

perform a range of simple to complex tasks.

Note: To switch between different modes, click My Workspace on the Menu bar

then select a viewing mode. See “Personalizing My Workspace” for details.

The Welcome Screen

The Welcome Screen provides you with quick shortcuts to common tasks. It is

displayed when you start PhotoImpact in Basic Photo Mode. To select a task,

click an icon on the Welcome Screen.

Tip: Selecting Window: Welcome Screen opens the Welcome Screen.

Tasks in the Welcome Screen include the following:

• Create New Image Opens a new image document.

• Browse Images Opens the Browse Manager which allows you to browse

for folders and preview images.

• Download Images Opens the Digital Camera Wizard which allows you to

download digital camera photos into your computer’s hard disk.

• Scan Images Allows you to scan images in PhotoImpact.

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• Fix Photos Allows you to make quick fixes to photos using ExpressFix.

• Watch Tutorial Allows you to view the video tutorials that are on the

content CD (that is, the second PhotoImpact CD).

• Link to Learning Center Links to Ulead Learning Center on the Internet.

• Help Opens the online help.

Overview: User Interface

This section provides a brief overview of the PhotoImpact workspace. Familiarizing

yourself with the components of the workspace is a great way to start learning the

program. Use the page references to locate a specific topic of interest.

Menu

Bar

Attribute Toolbar

Standard Toolbar

Toolbox

Status

Bar

Panel

Manager

Document

Manager

Status Bar

Program Status & Helpful Hints

Data Type

Display image properties or system info

Unit

Show/Hide Ruler

Show/Hide Image Map

Show/Hide Slice Line

Enter or exit Mask Mode

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Standard Toolbar (Basic Photo Mode)

New Image

Show/Hide

Browse Manager

Save

Print Preview

Undo

Redo

Scanner

Digital Camera

ExpressFix

Send E-mail

Show/Hide EasyPalette

Zoom

Product Updates

on the Web

Help

Standard Toolbar (Advanced Mode)

New Image

New Web page

Open

Save

Undo

Redo

Scanner

Digital Camera

Scanned Image Fix

Zoom

Product Updates

on the Web

Help

Print

Print Preview

Print Multiple

Preview in Browser

Cut

Copy

Paste

ExpressFix

Auto Levels

SmartCurves

Highlight Midtone Shadow

Brightness and Contrast

Start/Stop Capture

Photo Frame

White Balance

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Layer Manager

Selection Manager

Document Manager

Browse Manager

Color Panel

Quick Command Panel

Tool Settings

Histogram Panel

EasyPalette

Panel Manager

Selection Tools

Path Tools

Crop Tools

Slice Tool

Retouch Tools

Stamp Tool

Eraser Tools

Pick Tool

Z-Merge Tool

Text Tool

Transform Tool

Zoom Tool

Eyedropper and Measure Tools

Paint Tools

Clone Tools

Fill Tools

Toolbox

Quick Color Control Panel

Image Map Tool

Foreground and

Background Colors

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