PhotoImpact 6.0 | List Price: $99.99
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Platform: Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows 95
Brand: Ulead
Binding: CD-ROM
I LOVE my PhotoImpact! [Posted on 2002-04-28]
...I've used PhotoImpact back before it was called that (and didn't know what I was using, I just knew I liked it better than some others I had used). I didn't learn what I had been using was PhotoImpact untill I got PhotoImpact4. LOL I've tried Corel, Print Artist (althoug Print Artist isn't an imaging editing program, I do use it, too), PaintShop , MGI, PhotoDeluxe, the JASC program, and various others that come with this printer, or that printer or this scanner and that. I've never used Photo Shop, don't think I want to, way to expensive, and from what I have heard, hard. I've never had any formal training with any graphic program, and I really like PhotoImpact better than any of the others, you can just do so much more with it. The rage today is scrapbooking. I haven't actually gotten into that, at least the way most do it. Takes tooooo much time and hubby gets a bit antsy with all that stuff in the living room or dining room or kitchen, scattered around and I just don't do it well. But, I have been doing my "scrapbooking" on the computer with my PhotoImpact. They turn out WONDERFUL! I print up two of my pages each time, one for me and one for my mom, and put them in sheet protectors and insert into a binder. After I started working where I am now employed, I took some pictures and printed them up and posted them on the bulletin board and the walls in the hall and people just love them and think they turned out so wonderful, and they DID! Having a very nice printer helps, too....
Does everything [Posted on 2002-06-21]
Previously, I have used more limited U-lead products bundled with my scanner. I was satisfied with their performance, but felt the need for more capabilities to edit photos and drawings for my educational websites. The new program, Photoimpact, more than justifies the purchase. In particular, its capability to optimize images for inclusion in websites makes it a "Must-have" for the website author. My ownly negative is that it takes a while to load. But I can tolerate that in view of the time I save editing images.
Biggest Bang for the Buck [Posted on 2002-08-16]
I really hate to spend a lot of money for anything and I shope around. I bought this product because I thought it had the best features for the price. I wanted to make sure it had a gif animator and it did. I will have to admit that this product is definitely not for novices and there is a learning curve. I would think this product is of professional grade. There are some great home edition products for novices like the photo editors that come bundled when you purchase a digital camera or when you buy digital prints on a CD, etc. We had a pile of pictures taken through the years of our children and I wanted to make a collage out of them. I scanned the pictures in and created a 20 X 30 collage out of them using this product. I uploaded the collage to Ofoto (Amazon's Photo site - the best I found!!) and had a 20 X 30 print made out of it. It came out just great!! If you're patient and willing to learn the concepts of this product than it is great and the sky is the limit of what you can do with it. You'll never use all features of this product. I am only giving it fours stars just to draw attention to my review to say that it is a complex product. I am sure that people who gave low marks really did not want to take the time to read the manual and/or understand the concepts.
A really solid product [Posted on 2002-10-22]
I have been using PhotoImpact for several months and it is a lot of fun to use. With all the options that this product has, there is going to be a real learning curve, but don't let that put you off, keep the manuel handy and play with it. The selection tools are great and so are the touch up tools. I've used it to touch up and modify many pictures and most of the special effects allow you to get quite expressive. Some of the special effects, however are a little gemicky and of little practicle use, at least from my standpoint. Things that one might want to get with this? One is a pressure sensitive pad with a stylus to take full advantage of it's retouching capabilities. You will also need a powerful CPU, I'd say at least a gig, and plenty of memory. Remember, graphics can take up a lot of space, so a large hard drive is nice too. If you use it, you'll love it. If you love it, you'll want to update to the lates version. Doug Lester
Quick and dependable [Posted on 2003-08-02]
I started out with V4.2, so I'm pretty used to navigating through the editing process quickly. I'm much faster with it than in Photoshop, BTW. Nothing much has changed, just some improvements with the web design part of it. I use it strictly for photography. It's fast, the undo arrow is right above your work and goes back I think 6-7 steps if you don't like what you did. It's a dependable, solid program that'll still be useful in years to come. Maybe Win XP has something to do with it, but I can't complain about XP either.
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