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Overview

PhotoImpact X3 is packed with fun photo projects, easy one-click photo fixes and new digital art tools that make your creative projects look their best. Quickly touch up your favorite pictures with innovative ExpressFix editing. Use customizable project templates to create memorable photo gifts in just minutes. Get creative with drawing and painting tools, and work with graphics to enhance your video productions.

Features Set

Correct and enhance photos for maximum impact

Make every picture special with automated photo enhancements and easy-to-understand options for image editing and sharing.

Easy and Fast ExpressFix™ Mode

The unique ExpressFix panel features one-click fixes and enhancements. Easily compare changes with a large preview screen that shows Before and After views.

SmartCurves – automatically bring out details in dark areas, without overexposing the highlights
Auto White Balance Control – easily correct your images to make colors look natural under any kind of light
Reduce Noise – automatically clean up digital artifacts in photos shot in low light or at high ISO settings. Especially useful for improving cell phone pictures
Photo Project Wizard – easily create collages, comic strips, DVD labels and greeting cards

New! Next-generation Crop tools

PhotoImpact now offers 2 easy ways to re-compose your pictures for greater impact:

Rule of Thirds Crop – apply the classic Rule of Thirds grid for more dynamic images
Golden Ratio Crop – used throughout history by the masters, this is a timeless tool that creates a proportion that is aesthetically pleasing. It worked for the Mona Lisa, it can work for your photos, too!

SmartGuide "How-to" Help

Step-by-step directions on screen show you how to complete great-looking projects.
Includes guides for basic and advanced photo-editing, Web page, video and DVD menu tasks.
Links take you directly to the tools you need.

Enhance photo details even more with advanced editing tools

PhotoImpact X3 includes a complete set of powerful tools to satisfy the demands of high-end users.

Powerful Retouching

Enhance your photos using advanced darkroom tools.

Dodge, Burn, Remove Scratch – retouch photos to improve quality and add professional-looking photographic effects
Touch-up Tool – Easily remove skin blemishes and unwanted image details and objects

Enhanced! RAW File Support

Brighter previews, improved performance and a greater number of supported camera models make working with your RAW images easier than ever.

High Dynamic Range

Create professional images that capture color and detail in both shadows and highlights
Remove elements of the scene that change between shots
Enhanced with preset curves for more camera models

Take your photos to new places

New! Photo Projects

Share your photos as greetings cards, collages, comic strips, and on CD & DVD labels
Choose from 70 customizable templates
Follow the simple and fast 3-step wizard to complete projects quickly

Learn more about Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Enhanced! COOL 360 Panorama-maker

Now fully integrated into PhotoImpact
Seamlessly combine a series of photos
Create horizontal or even vertical panoramas

Create amazing digital art

Enjoy limitless creative possibilities with PhotoImpact's suite of powerful, easy-to-use image-editing tools.

New & Unique! Cloud Pen

Say goodbye to dull skies! Now you can paint natural-looking clouds or add fun effects
Choose from cumulus, cirrus and stratus cloud types
Get creative with fantasy cloud animals, skywriting or smoke signals

SPECIAL OFFER! Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3 (full version)

A complete home art studio, for novices and experts alike
Draw or paint original artwork, or enhance your photos with paint effects
Natural-Media® watercolor and oil-paint brushes behave just like the real thing!
Automatically turn your photos of kids, travel or weddings into stunning paintings in 3 easy steps!

Creative Photographic Filters

Choose from hundreds of optical effects, textures and lighting effects to add flair to your photos.

Discover graphics tools for video enthusiasts
Make your video productions stand out by creating stunning graphics for slide shows, videos, DVDs and more.

New! Slideshow Prep Wizard

Make sure your photos look their best in a DVD slide show
Choose from a selection of sophisticated frames, drop-shadow and color-gradient background styles
Add date/time labels and batch process
Import your photos into Corel® VideoStudio® or Corel® DVD MovieFactory® to easily create your slide show. PhotoImpact X3 is a great companion tool for these video-editing and DVD authoring applications

New! DVD Content Sets

Present your video projects like a pro. Design and print DVD labels and case covers that match menus in DVD MovieFactory and VideoStudio.
Save Images for Video
Generate GIF & PNG images with transparency for video overlays, logos or lower-thirds.

Product Installation

Easy, Step-by-Step install wizard

Bitdernder is easy antivirus to install , but we face some problems in unistalled the software from Windows XP, Plus we found that bitdefender devlopers need to work on the anviurs engine for WIN XP its slow down your CPU Support solve this problem within towdays.

System Requreminets

Intel® Pentium® III, AMD® Athlon™ 800 or above CPU
512 MB RAM (for Windows® XP), 1 GB RAM (for Windows Vista™)
Windows® XP Service Pack 2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows® XP Media Center Edition, Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Vista®
750 MB available hard drive space for main program and content files
An additional 320 MB available hard drive space for bonus programs
True Color or Hi-Color display adapter with 1024x768 resolutions or higher
CD-ROM Drive

Summary

Not Rated

Price $19.99
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Corel PhotoImpact X3

Corel provide you with all of the following Technical Support services:

Free telephone, live chat and email support is limited to installation support, covering technical issues relating to product installation and getting started with your Corel product. Corel provides support services to registered customers only, and requires that customers have the latest patches and updates installed.

Paid support incidents or plans provide additional entitlements, including an increased number of incidents, reduced response times, support for basic usage questions and troubleshooting unexpected behavior.

Premium Technical Support is available to customers with more involved usage, deployment and troubleshooting questions through Maintenance, or by separate purchase of a support plan. An unpublished toll-free number will be provided only to customers who have a Premium Support contract. Please note: Premium Support is not available in all countries.

Phone lines may be provided toll-free in some locations. However, not all countries provide toll-free numbers. Customers may be required to place calls through local, national or international rate numbers.

For email inquiries directed to Technical Support that are outside the definition of basic installation, customers will be asked to call in and pay for a support incident as indicated above. Service level on email response is 1-3 business days.

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