User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc. August 2005 First edition for Ulead® PhotoImpact® 11, August 2005. © 1992-2005 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Licenses and trademarks ©1995-2005 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ulead, the Ulead logo, PhotoImpact, EasyPalette and Ulead GIF Animator are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. 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North & South America Ulead Systems Inc. http://www.ulead.com Support: http://www.ulead.com/tech International Ulead Systems, Inc. http://www.ulead.com http://www.asiapac.ulead.com http://www.ulead.com.tw Support: http://www.ulead.com/tech http://www.asiapac.ulead.com/tech http://www.ulead.com.tw/tech Japan Ulead Systems Inc. http://www.ulead.co.jp Support: http://www.ulead.co.jp/support Germany Ulead Systems GmbH http://www.ulead.de Support: http://www.ulead.de/tech China Ulead Systems, Inc. http://www.ulead.com.cn Support: http://www.ulead.com.cn/tech United Kingdom http://www.ulead.co.uk Support: http://www.ulead.co.uk/tech France http://www.ulead.fr Support: http://www.ulead.fr/tech TABLE OF CONTENTS 3 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 The PhotoImpact difference ......................................................... 15 Enhanced photo editing .............................................................. 16 Complete creative suite .............................................................. 16 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 What's new ......................................................................... 15 Introduction to the workspace ............................................ 17 Personalizing My Workspace ............................................... 23 About PhotoImpact dialog boxes ......................................... 25 Using the EasyPalette .......................................................... 27 Setting Preferences .................................................................... 23 Floating and docking toolbars and panels ...................................... 24 Using the Customize dialog box ................................................... 24 Using quick samples ................................................................... 25 Split View and Dual View ............................................................. 26 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 4 ULEAD PHOTOIMPACT USER GUIDE Modifying and adding Galleries thumbnails .................................... 33 Basics .................................................................................. 35 Using Variations in the EasyPalette galleries .................................34 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 ..................................................................... Perspective Crop ....................................................................... Converting between data types ................................................... Resizing an image ...................................................................... 44 46 46 47 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 Changing resolution ..................................................................47 Changing dimensions by resampling ............................................48 Recovering from mistakes ........................................................... 51 Saving images .......................................................................... 52 Printing .................................................................................... 53 Calibrating your printer .............................................................53 Save for Mobile ........................................................................53 AutoSave .................................................................................53 Color Management ..................................................................... 54 Using Print Preview ...................................................................55 More print options .....................................................................56 Print Multiple ............................................................................56 Print Poster ..............................................................................57 Sending images ........................................................................58 Acquiring images from the Internet .............................................59 Images and the Web .................................................................. 58 TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 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 Enhancement effects ........................................................... 77 White Balance ........................................................................... 76 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 Diffraction Filter ....................................................................... 85 Multivision Filter ....................................................................... 86 Star Filter ................................................................................ 87 Lens Filters ............................................................................. ...