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Reviews
 "Ulead
- PhotoExpress (My Scrapbook Edition) 4.0- March 2002
PhotoExpress
- My Scrapbook Edition is a new computer program designed to allow
you to scan and work with your photos with the ultimate aim of producing
computer generated scrapbook pages.
Once installed,
the work screen looks very much like Windows Explorer, so will be
familiar to many people. A menu gives the options of: Browse, Photo,
Project.
Browse
allows you to:
- Load photos
from a variety of sources including a scanner, a digital camera
or a video file.
- To adjust
your photos once you have them in the program (rotate, convert
or enhance.
- Print your
photos in a variety of formats - to thumbnails, cd covers, poster,
t-shirt etc
- Share your
photos by email, the web or other means
- Download
updates for the program
Photo
allows you to:
- Load photos
from a variety of sources including a scanner, a digital camera
or a video file.
- Edit your
photos:
- Adjust
the brightness, resize, trim, focus etc
- Select
parts of the picture.
- Remove
red-eye from photos
- Add text
- Decorate
photos, pages etc
Project
allows you to:
- Make scrapbooks
- Make frames
for photos etc
- Stationary
- cd covers, letterhead, gift tags, note pads, calendars etc
- 3D folding
- a variety of decorative boxes.
- Edit your
photos:
- Adjust
the brightness, resize, trim, focus etc
- Select
parts of the picture.
- Add text
If you want
to use the program to make computer based pages (which can be stored
digitally or printed out), you can start from scratch or choose
from a variety of pre-made template pages (additional templates
can be downloaded from the web). These allow you to make very quick
pages by just adding your photos and then customising titles, backgrounds,
font styles, and page accents (which are also supplied) to complete
your page.
In addition
to making complete scrapbook pages, the program allows you to produce
all the elements you need in a page, (title, accents, journalling
box, etc) and then print those elements out, cut them and put them
on your page.
Other features
include:
- When you
use frames, if you drag and drop the frame on the picture, the
frame will automatically resize to fit the picture.
- Gives button
to download additional templates, very easy to do.
- Saving very
easy, but you do end up with large file sizes.
- Very easy
to change the transparency and orientation of clip art images
(called props) by flipping or rotating.
The program
is fairly intuitive, even someone with little computer experience
could produce either simple, classic pages or much more complicated
pages quite easily.
In addition
to the main program, another very handy piece of software is included
on the disk. Called Ulead COOL 360, this program allows you to stitch
a number of photos together to produce panoramic shots. For the
scrapbooker, this means that you can stitch together the two scans
it takes to scan in a 12x12 page.
To do this you:
- Choose "New
Project" from the main menu (on the right of the screen).
- Under "Project
Type", choose "Wide Angle Image". (There are examples
for each option, so if you forget which one, just try each option
til you see the right before and after shot!).
- Press, "Next"
- From the
menu that appears next, find the folder that contains the various
images you wish to join together and add them to the bottom screen
(by clicking on the file name and then pressing the add button).
- TIP:
Make sure that the images are in the correct order in the
bottom preview window. The order in which they appear here is
the order in which they will be joined together.
- Press "Next".
- Make sure
you DO NOT choose the "Disable Blending" option. This
is the option that allows the two halves of your 12x12 layout
to be "stitched" together without being able to see
the seam. To see the difference, compare the two images below.
- Press "Finish".
- This takes
you to the final screen where you can review your stitched layout.
If you are satisfied, press the "Finish" button at the
top of the screen.
- Then save.
System Requirements:
- P1 - 166
or equivalent
- Win (95 OSR2,
98, ME, 2000 or NT 4 with SP4 or above)
- Internet
Explorer 5 or above (included with CD)
- 32MB Ram
- 100 Mb hard-disk
space
- CD-Rom
- High Colour
Monitor
- Mouse
Rating:
7/10
Details:
PhotoExpress
(My Scrapbook Edition) 4.0 by Ulead
Price: Unknown
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