Corel PhotoImpact X3

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Corel PhotoImpact X3 combines full-featured photo editing with inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art to make digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy. Easy & Fast ExpressFix Mode: Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options put the tools you need at your fingertips. Instantly fix exposure, color, and composition. Beginners like the simplicity, experienced users like the efficiency. Take Your Photos to New Places Use easy wizards to create fun photo projects and gifts. Choose from over 200 customizable templates for a wide range of ways to share your pictures. Collages Comic strips Calendars Greeting cards Create Amazing Digital Art: Paint realistic looking clouds with the cloud pen, Enhance your photos with creative filters, and draw and paint like a pro.

Version X3 includes Corel Painter Essentials 3 Full Version, Slideshow Prep Wizard, and new crop tools.

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Editor's review of Corel PhotoImpact

Perhaps a touch less powerful than the most elaborate photo-editing packages, Corel has expanded Ulead's PhotoImpact and blown it up. The download file is nearly double the size of the last version, but PhotoImpact X3 makes a concerted effort to compete with Adobe. Positioned between Elements and Photoshop, this app delivers everything most users need: editing tools, effects, and ready-made elements for creations.

The wide variety of textures, frames, effects, animations, and brushes wouldn't necessarily justify the download, but the app is more or less a snap to use. Wizard dialogs let you instantly create attractive and functional Web-page objects, including buttons, image maps, bullets, and backgrounds. The program works with layers, too. The traditional photo-editing interface has only one peculiarity: the main docked panel, which can hold all the other panels and quickly hide and show them. It also lets you quickly switch among work-space layouts. Beginners, for instance, can display just the controls for basic editing.

All in all, this powerful graphics program will appeal to photographers and Web designers who need a significantly cheaper alternative to monster packages such as Photoshop.

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  Packed!

  by: Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay on 21-Jan-2008 09:01:25 AM

  Pros: Spellbinding! It's got all you can think about your photographs. Just open the images and do the required changes. Save it to get the best out of your images. Simply speaking, with this cool piece of software, you can get the world of photo editing at your fingertips.

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  its hard to manipulate....

  by: digamontanji on 31-May-2008 04:59:34 PM

  Pros: i only like the pens thats all..

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  Better than the best!

  by: xjay.com on 28-Apr-2008 12:05:21 PM

  Pros: I have been using Ulead PhotoImpact since v.7 with absolutley no complaints aside from a needed BugFix here and there, which was always taken care ASAP. I hope Corel is as reliable as ULEAD was. So far, so good with PI X3. Anything PS can do, PI X3 can do just as good in one-tength of the time. The features and the price tag cannot be beat by any other Graphics editor.

  Cons: Newbie reviewers.

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  by: sana274 on 15-Jan-2008 10:32:41 PM

  Pros: It`s New !!

  Cons: Ummm ?? fOr sum Reziin .. iiF ii cliick d-lOad .. iit dznt actualli d-lOad ?? y?? ..

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  Great for the beginner and for continued use

  by: debwong on 17-Jan-2008 03:01:31 PM

  Pros: PhotoImpact was the first imaging program I had ever used, so I may be biased. However, even after I have gone on to using Adobe Photoshop for professional and person use, I still use Impact for many projects. The coolest things about Impact are the variety of button templates and frames, etc., - the "extras" that I don't have with Photoshop. No law says that you should only use one program for image work. Though admittedly, Photoshop is the standard for pros, Impact has its own specail features, which I use to this day.

  Cons: The method for sizing images is not the best in Impact. Because of that and a few other quirks, I would not use the program exclusively for pro jobs.

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