Ulead PhotoImpact 10 - Professional Image Editing Made Easy

From: ULead Systems
Category: Software

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

9 reviews
Sales Rank: 5437

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.6 x 2.7

MPN: a30-4a0-111
Model: A30-4A0-111-0A0000
UPC: 756405014622
EAN: 0756405014622
ASIN: B0002Z45CC

Release Date: October 25, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Complete image-editing suite for beginners and advanced users
•	Streamlined interface for common tasks; easy to learn and use
•	High-end tools for retouching, montages, painting, drawing, and Web graphics
•	Includes Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5, GIF Animator 5.0, COOL 360, and more
•	Plus 2,000 stock images, 4 plugin filters, and 1,000 Hemera stock photos

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Ulead PhotoImpact 10 is a complete image-editing suite for enthusiasts who want inspiring results, without the steep learning curve. Give yourself infinite creative freedom and achieve professional results with your photos. Includes Photo Explorer 8.5, GIFAnimator and Cool-360. Transform Tool corrects or modifies images and objects, Resize, Distort, AddPerspective and Rotate in Virtual 3D The object-based approach lets altered objects interact naturally the same three-dimensional plane Use the unique Z-Merge to fuse objects together for amazing 3D image depth control

Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Professional results, even for the beginner. February 2, 2007
C. Smith (FL, USA)
I have owned versions of PhotoImpact since version 7. My wife first started learning by looking over my shoulder, then one day, she wanted to play with the program herself. Within a few weeks, and without looking at any manuals or "How-To" books, my wife had become quite a good banner and button maker.

Since then, we have come a long way in our website skills and our desire to mold our images into new creations. We have also purchased a camera in the last year, which was my first digital one. Not only is this program great for beginners to start making their own web graphics, but it is also an excellent software to turn good pictures into portraits like the pros.

This program by far, is just shy of having all the bells and whistles of one of its top contenders: Photoshop CS2
One difference: You don't have to be a webmaster guru or photo fanatic to start making the program do what you want it to do.
My wife and I both agree, that the learning curve is definetly more difficult on Photoshop, than PhotoImpact, by far.

One other thing about this, is COST. As stated, PhotoImpact has basically all the extras and tools as its competitor Photoshop, but PhotoImpact costs less!. The cost of PhotoImpact and all its other free tools such as gif animator, cool 360, and Photo Explorer are even less than just an "upgrade" on the other software program. Why pay just for an upgrade code when you can have an entire set of tools at your disposal for a fraction of the upgrade cost? If you buy the boxed CD, you also get an in depth manual that helps to explain all the possibilities PhotoImpact 10 can do.

For anyone wanting to fix digital photos, or make their own web graphics without having a 4 year degree to figure it out, or spending way to much money to get the software... then this program is exactly what you are looking for!

Enjoy!
~Chuck

4 out of 5 stars

component download is really bad January 28, 2007
James W. Mooney (Monson, MA)
I've always liked Photoimpact. It has a Lot of features. But every time I tried it, I had trouble with the component download. When you want to use a special feature it says it needs to download a component, then the download freezes or takes forever. They just don't seem to be able to fix this or put enough bandwidth on their site. I've had this problem with different computers, providers and OSes, so it's not just my configuration. I've had no problem downloading anything else.

So eventually, I'd give up on Photoimpact due to their awful component download even though I like it better than other graphics programs.

In fact, I just went to the ulead site to try it one more time, and sure enough the darn site doesn't load. I've got a high speed connection and everything else is loading quickly. I'm still waiting on ulead as I write this. I guess they just don't want to pay for decent commercial bandwidth, which is a real shame since it's a top product.

4 out of 5 stars

If You Want To Compare It To PhotoShop... June 14, 2006
C. Mayfair (Okinawa, Japan (US Air Base))
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you want to compare this product to Adobe's PhotoShop, which I also own, you will be sorely disappointed. The ability to work with layers is lacking, and being able to interact with individual items can be trying at times, but for less experienced users, PhotoImpact can be an invaluable tool.

For the casual photo editor and layperson, PhotoImpact is very user friendly, and can complete many tasks using wizards, or easy to use previews (provided you utilize the excellently laid out Easy Palette). The Component Designer makes it easy to create buttons and icons for web site design that are easily customizable and present a professional looking result. The materials galleries allow you to create excellent three-dimensional effects in objects, ranging from glassy and transparent to shiny metal, to rock or almost any other texture you might desire. Compared to PhotoShop, this is quite easy to accomplish, and quick to view without taking up quite as much memory.

All in all, I would recommend this for someone who does not care to poke and prod at the minutiae of editing that you can only do in PhotoShop, as regardless, this is a powerful program with many redeeming features.

4 out of 5 stars

Great except for cloning November 3, 2005
Sidney C. White
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I bought this product because I am in love with Ulead Video Studio 9, and wanted to maximize the benefits of family connectivity, such as importation of animated lighting effects into my videos. I am very happy with this.

I have only two complaints so far:
(1) My 48 bit scans must be converted to 24 bit before most editing operations are possible. I think Ulead wants me to buy PhotoImpact 11 to remedy that.
(2) My major complaint is that I cannot obtain a clean cloning line. The ability to set percentage of color drawn from the source, and to set percentage of soft edge in application make for a wonderful improvement over the free Adobe PhotoDeluxe software I replaced, but I sorely miss being able to clean right up to the edge of a colored area in an image. PI 10 pulls color from the adajacent field if you get really close, and this is extremely frustrating.

5 out of 5 stars

Best Photo Editor August 20, 2005
Jordan L. Van Zant (CAMARILLO, CA United States)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful

I believe I have gone through every Photo Editor Trial out there, and this is by far the best. Yes even better than great and glorious photoshop. why? cause it's user friendly. you dont have to be a technical geek. im not one of them, and i could figure out how to use all the tools before i lost my creativity.
and for fifty something dollars! this is truly worth the buy. if only i had the money, hahaha.
on a more personal note, this program allowed me to do some art that saved my life really it did. so i guess this is a thanks to ulead, your 30 day trial saved my life, and helped my imagination run free.