CNET Editors' review
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.
Publisher's Description
From Corel:
Ulead PhotoImpact 11 is a complete image-editing suite with easy-to-use tools for all your image and photo-editing needs. My Workspace fits the program layout to your style. Advanced features match today's sophisticated cameras. Extensive creative tools help you realize your vision. Whether you're new to digital photography or want to take creative expression to the next level, PhotoImpact 11 makes professional image editing easy.
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All versions:
3.5 starsout of 131 votes
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Current version:
3.7 starsout of 23 votes
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"It is a decent program"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
Great slicer, it is very easy to slice my layouts with it but other then that...
Cons
The resulting image quality is low comparing to photoshop.
Help is very poor
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"Fun and Easy to use"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
This is a fun and easy program to use. For those who want quick fixes to photos and don't want to mess with a complicated Photoshop interface, this program is great. There are lots of presets and easy to use menus. I found myself enjoying this program. The download is a decent 30days.
Cons
I always complain about programs not being free despite the fact that I know most programs can't be free. Then again, wouldn't this program be better if it was free?
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"comments on photoimpact pro 8.5"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
nothing. i wonder what the people who wrote it were on, or how it then passed quality control. it didn't crash my system. this doesn't say much. oh, the open a web page as an image is nice.
Cons
counterintuitive. it took me three hours to figure out how to do multiple prints. you figure it out. then the multiple print has no print options. absolutely horrible as far as being user friendly. when you look in help for 'print multiple' it tells you that you can print several of the same, or different pictures. duh. i use to use arcsoft photoimpression, but photoimpression was better four years ago. best advise is to preuse the reviews and see what other users have to recommend. haven't upgraded to version 11, but don't see unlead delivering based on this versions poor performance.
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"its really good"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
makin nw picz
Cons
downloadin it makes u a bit baffed
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"GOOD...BUT ADOBE'S CLONE !"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
great photo app , lots of useful feature , nice & pratic interface , very precise .
Cons
...it reminds me another program...called PHOTO SHOP , that is still the greatest !
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"a real picture software it can do any thing"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
in ulead photoimpact . i like it all.
Cons
i dotn like onething. and that is
it has no perfect vector graphic system.
like Adobe ImageReady has.
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"Begginers and experts"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
I highly reccomend this doftware to experts, however if you are a complete begginer this is still not completely unusefull. It features many tools, and you can do almost anything to your photo.
Cons
The one con is that a couple of the features are a bit complicated to use
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"Help section is not very helpful"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
can resize images just fine.
Cons
The whole purpose why I downloaded this program was to resize pics and put a border around them for a website. It will resize the images just fine. Now lets add a border, well I cant figure out how to do that, lets try the help section. The help was of no help at all. The places it said to click just where not there. This looks like a pretty good program just needs a better help section. This program also caused an illegal operation on startup once.
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Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
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Cons
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"not for windows 98 as claimed"
Version: Ulead PhotoImpact 11
Pros
i don't know
Cons
after downloading for over an hour, i went to install and recieved the error msg that says this program is for windows xp and up and not for windows 98 and up as it says on the download page. i had to delete. what a waste of time.
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