PhotoImpact® Pro 11 is the ideal choice for digital photography, creative design and web graphics – all in one powerful suite. You’ll get everything you need to organize, edit, manage, and share digital photos – and so much more!
Whether you’re new to digital photography or a seasoned professional, you’ll appreciate the award-winning power and flexibility of PhotoImpact Pro. It not only delivers state-of-the-art image editing and high-end photo filters for enthusiasts, but it also caters to first-time users with an improved Basic Mode plus more than 1,500 photorealistic scrapbook embellishments. PhotoImpact Pro offers dozens of other new features including RAW File Support, White Balance Correction, and the revolutionary SmartRemove Scene Compositor to create a perfect image by combining the best elements of several photos.
Breeze Through Everyday Photo Tasks
PhotoImpact is the perfect solution for casual and occasional users. Commonly used functions have large icons that are easily identifiable and are grouped together for easy access. You can easily import, browse, edit, and share your images all from one simplified interface!
Basic Photo Mode Casual users can get started fast with Basic Photo Mode's intuitive welcome screen, user-friendly icons and condensed tool set.
Import
|
Browse
Edit
|
Share
Import
Digital Camera Image Import Wizard
Easily acquire images from any camera in just one step.
Browse
Lightning-Fast Browse Manager ENHANCED!
Now the Browse Manager creates thumbnails of images and only re-scans them when the image has been edited. This means that the second time you open a folder you will see your photos instantly! You can even directly apply EasyPalette effects and filters in the Browse Manager.
Edit
Cropping
Easily crop photos to bring the audience closer to your subject.
Remove Red Eye
One-click red eye removal even corrects pictures of animals with unrealistic yellow or green eyes.
ExpressFix
The ExpressFix Wizard eliminates the guesswork that comes with fixing common photo problems. The wizard automatically analyzes photos and presents options to improve and enhance image color, exposure, focus and even skin texture.
Share
E-mail E-mail automatically optimizes images and exports them as attachments to your e-mail application for instant sharing.
Print Choose from an array of creative and paper-saving output options. Print Multiple provides over 200 preset layouts that make full use of paper space and allows you to print multiple images on a single sheet of paper using standard photo, card, tag, or CD label sizes. You can also check out fun features like Print Poster, where a single image spans multiple pages.
Digital Camera Image
Import Wizard PhotoImpact automatically detects digital cameras and card readers.
The Browse Manager
See your photos instantly.
The Crop Tool brings your audience closer.
Remove Red Eye - all it takes is one click!
ExpressFix Turn ordinary photos into photos that pop!
E-mail Attachments have never been this easy! They open right in your e-mail program - ready to send.
Intuitive Printing Options:
Print Multiple
200 Preset Layouts
Print Poster
IMPROVED! ExpressFix™ Wizard
Correct Flaws with Ease PhotoImpact Pro takes the worry out of photo correction with its exclusive ExpressFix™ Wizard. You'll get help correcting focus, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, tones and more.
These are just a few of the many ways you can perfect your photos with PhotoImpact Pro...
REMOVE RED-EYE Specify eye color for the
perfect picture every time!
BRIGHTEN PHOTOS Easily correct dimly lit faces.
CORRECT COLOR Breathe life into dull photos.
RESTORE OLD PHOTOS Remove dust, scratches and blemishes from any photo.
Enhance Images With
Easy-To-Use Tools and Camera Filters
Apply the same popular effects achieved by professionals using expensive lenses and filters.
STAR FILTER Add sparkle to images with spectacular highlights.
TOUCH-UP TOOL Remove blemishes and soften skin tones.
SPOT FILTER Highlight your subject by adding a blur around it.
GAUSSIAN BLUR Create attention by taking backgrounds out of focus.
GRADIENT FILTER Intensify colors by blending multiple colors together.
MULTI-VISION Easily duplicate the subject of your photograph.
Plus...
Motion Blur
Zoom Blur
Sharpen
Reduce Noise
Diffraction Filter
Duotone Effect
Diffuse Glow
Plus, Batch Processing and Much More!
High-End Image Editing
Experience High-End Image Editing
Your camera is just the beginning. PhotoImpact gives digital photography enthusiasts a complete set of industry-standard image editing tools, plus powerful features found only in PhotoImpact. The software combines image editing that matches today's high-end cameras with trendsetting tools that let you take digital photography further.
RAW/DNG supportNEW! Open, adjust and convert RAW files.
Photo Explorer with RAW SupportEHANCED!
Now with version 8.6, Photo Explorer includes support for converting and viewing RAW files.
SmartCurvesNEW! UNIQUE!
Powerful new SmartCurves automatically adjusts images to compensate for camera response curve anomalies. SmartCurves use PhotoImpact's advanced HDR imaging technology to calibrate custom camera curves. It's pure rocket science. Good thing it's fully automated. You get high-quality tonal correction tailored for your camera. You'll be amazed by the results.
Photographers traditionally correct tonal problems using levels, curves (tone maps) and histograms. Evaluating images visually can be hard and adjusting curves manually is very time consuming.
Batch apply SmartCurves to an entire folder of images.
RAW/DNG support
SmartCurves
16-Bit Support Edit images in high-quality 16-bit per channel color depth. Features supporting 16-bit per channel editing include:
Adjust (Auto)
Batch (Auto)
Brightness and
Color (Auto)
Color Adjustment
Color Balance
Color Cast
Contrast
Contrast (Auto)
Crop (Auto)
Curves
Enhance (Auto)
Equalize
Focus (Auto)
Gaussian Blur
Highlight Midtone Shadow
Hue and Saturation
Invert
Level
Levels (Auto)
Posterize
Reduce Noise
Rotate
Straighten (Auto)
Threshold
Unsharp Mask
Expand Your Creative Horizons
PhotoImpact offers the broadest range of image-editing tools on the market. You can explore, experiment and express yourself with this complete suite of powerful yet easy-to-use tools. Enjoy hours of experimenting with montages, graphic design, Web design, video graphics and so much more.
Montages
Object Extraction Wizard
UNIQUE! ENHANCED! Professional results in only minutes!
Transport friends to exotic places. Just paint around the edge of any subject, click on the background, extract and refine. Even extract fine detail like hair and shadows. Four steps and it's done. Once you try the Object Extraction Wizard, you'll be hooked. And now it’s even easier to use.
Layer MasksNEW!
Explore amazing compositing control with nondestructive layer masks. Customize a mask's transparency using painting & gradient tools and enjoy the flexibility of being able to rotate, resize, paint in or paint out masks just like objects. Link and unlink an object to a selection mask so that you can change the object's position and adjust the layer mask's size and properties. Great for montages!
Graphic Design
Drawing Tools
Creative potential
Easily design 2D & 3D objects including editable text, lines, and multi-sided shapes.
Z-MergeUNIQUE! True object interaction
Fuse objects together for amazing 3D image depth control that allows objects to interact.
Z-Merge
EasyPaletteUNIQUE! Thumbnail effects library
Explore over 2,500 customizable effects and 800 objects. Simultaneously preview multiple effects instantly!
EasyPalette
Video Graphics
DVD MenusNEW!
Now the EasyPalette™ comes with DVD backgrounds, buttons, and frames - great for use with any DVD-authoring application! You can also pick from several professionally designed DVD menus.
DVD Menus
Lower-Third Graphics NEW! UNIQUE!
Now you can create customized lower-third graphics with the Component Designer. Great for use with most video-editing applications.
Lower-Third Graphics
Web Design
Web Component Designer
Design tailor-made Web pages with hundreds of preconfigured toolbars, buttons and bars.
Web Component Designer
JavaScript™ EffectsUNIQUE!
Take advantage of interactive Web page components like cascading menus, rollovers, and scrolling text all without typing a line of code.
Javascript™ Effects
Hundreds of Special Effects!
Put PhotoImpact Pro's huge library of still and animated effects to work for you. Effects include...
Cartoon
Halftone
Soft Haze
Dab
Impressionist
Spatula
Decoupage
Mosaic Tile
Splatter
Engraving
Pastel
Sponge
Etching
Pen & Ink
Squiggle
Fabric
Quills
Stone Washed
Faceted Glass
Scratch
Strings
Finger Paint
Screen
Watercolored
Frosted Glass
Smudge Stroke
Weathered
And Much More!
Particle Effects
Lighting Effects
And Much More
NEW! Smart Remove
SmartRemove Scene Compositor
Sometimes it's hard to get a perfect shot without moving people or cars obstructing your view. The revolutionary new SmartRemove feature lets you selectively paint out moving elements from multiple shots of the same scene, so you can compose an image with just the elements you want. But you can also create extraordinary shots. Show your subject in series of poses or create a crowd where there was none. SmartRemove turns the impossible into reality.
NEW! Easier-To-Use Interface
Photo Projects & Scrapbooks!
From flyers to greeting cards, stationery to CD and DVD labels, PhotoImpact Pro offers hundreds of photo projects ideal for virtually every occasion or event. Digital scrapbooking has never been easier!
BONUS! INCLUDES 1,500+ EMBELLISHMENTS FOR SPECTACULAR SCRAPBOOKS!
Comparison Chart
Easy to Learn and Use
PhotoImpact Pro 11
Corel Paint Shop Pro X
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
Basic Mode for beginners and Standard mode for experienced users
EasyPalette™ library with drag-and-drop effects presets
Complete video tutorial
Guide to Digital Photography Handbook
Photo Enhancement Tools
Photo Objects Collection
High Dynamic Range that combines several exposures of the same shot into one perfectly lit image
Touch-up tool
Reduce Noise filter
Photo Frame feature that lets users display text, logo, and EXIF data for labeling and copyright purposes
Quick Command Panel for recording macros
250 Corbis Stock Photos
Easily transform several photos into panoramas
Complete morphing software
SmartRemove paints out moving elements from multiple photos
Creative Design Tools
Alien Skin
Xenofex 2 Filters - Full Version!
Scrapbooking Graphics Collection
Object Extraction Wizard
Match Background Colors
Polygon Tool that supports multiple & individual node editing to create unique multi-sided shapes
3D composition using Z-merge
DVD & Video authoring tools and templates
Complete Web Graphics
Component Designer for easy creation of Web objects such as buttons, bars, and banners
Dedicated GIF Animation Program
JavaScript™ effects that can be easily added to Web pages for greater interactivity
Powerful Sharing and Management
Media organizer for acquiring, browsing, editing and sharing photos, video clips and sound files
Photos
Only
Photos
Only
Photos
Only
Web Albums & CD Slideshows that can be played on commercial DVD players
Reviews & Awards
WebUser Magazine, UK A bronze award for PhotoImpact Pro
"The key to PhotoImpact is its simplicity especially the ExpressFix feature, letting you quickly correct common errors like exposure, focus, colour and even modify skin tones."
WebUser Magazine, March 2006
PC Magazine, Singapore PhotoImpact 11, Recommended
" Perfect for newcomers or shared households, as each workspace can be tailored to each user’s needs. Furthermore, each set is fully customizable, so you can select the functionality that suits you best, including setting up the space for mainly photoediting or say for more web graphic design usage. PhotoImpact 11 is a feature rich photo-editor that’s more than price competitive. Its suite of tools, new RAW support and adaptable workspaces make this an ideal photo image editor."
PC Magazine, December 2005
PC Advisor magazine, UK Overall 8/10 given
"PhotoImpact is right up there with the likes of Photoshop Elements and PaintShop Pro. And with an easier to use, customisable interface, better support for mid range cameras and more advanced tools such as histograms and SmartCurves, it should definitely appeal to a broader range of photographers"
PC Advisor magazine, December 2005
PC User Magazine, Australia Ulead PhotoImpact 10 receives PC User Editor's Choice, Rating: 9.5/10 "…ease of use and low price""…with loads of powerful tools for improving photos, adding cool effects and text, and creating WE pages or print projects of your images.""…if you’re looking for a good affordable image editor mainly for outputting Web graphics, PhotoImpact is the best starting point"
PC User Magazine, July 2005
Entrepreneur Magazine, USA PhotoImpact 10: Editor’s Pick "Offering both basic and advanced modes, PhotoImpact ensures that what you see is what you get as you retouch…. And it fits on older desktops better than some competitors."
Entrepreneur Magazine, June 2005
Media & Methods Magazine, USA PhotoImpact 10 received Media & Methods Magazine 2005 Awards Portfolio Media & Methods Magazine, May/June 2005
Rangefinder Magazine, USA "The problem is when you start adding…more advanced features, the software price generally increases. Ulead PhotoImpact changes all that by offering a professional-level image editing program that goes beyond the norm."
Read the Entire Review
Rangefinder Magazine, July 2004.
About.com, USA 4.5 Stars out of 5 "PhotoImpact has always been an exceptional value for the home and business user looking for an all-in-one graphics solution." Read the Entire Review About.com, 2004
Corporate Media News, USA "PhotoImpact 10, at $89.95 is arguably the best image editing application in the category in which it competes. The company has spent many years ensuring that the application is powerful, feature laden, and most important in my opinion, easy to use with great results." Read the Entire Review Corporate Media News, February 2004
PCPhoto, USA Buyer’s Guide 2004 "(PhotoImpact 8) has all the key photo tools, plus some amazing special effects found nowhere else at this price.”
PCPhoto, December 2003
Technology & Learning, USA Awards of Excellence 2003 PhotoImpact 8 was honored as one of the best K-12 products of the past year.
Technology & Learning, October 2003
PC Magazine, USA Four Stars “PhotoImpact's image-editing capabilities are top-notch. ”
PC Magazine, Oct. 29, 2004
Newsweek, USA Getting Pixel Perfect “PhotoImpact lets you arrange your pictures by resolution, which is extremely helpful for, say, getting the two or three pictures of the grandkids that are suitable for 8 x 10 or larger prints.”
Newsweek, August 17, 2003
Entrepreneur, USA "A simple image-editing program that doesn’t produce simple looking results, PhotoImpact 8.0 offers a range of tools for editing digital photos and creating sophisticated Web graphics, including some drawing tools.”
Entrepreneur, May 2003
Computer Shopper, USA Editors’ Top 5 Software - Editors' Choice Award
Received: 8.8/10 “PhotoImpact 8 offers more useful editing tools for digital photographers and Web graphics than any of its competitors.” Computer Shopper, April 2003
New York Times, USA Cull, Then Categorize: A Digital Scrapbook
By TOM Di NOME "There is a lot to explore here, but it is well worth the time. With PhotoImpact, you can organize photos into different albums that can also be burned onto a CD. In addition to tools for in-depth color correction and photo retouching, it offers ways to create images from scratch and to isolate and grab pictures from Web sites to insert into other documents you have created." New York Times, March 6, 2003
Animation magazine, USA PhotoImpact 8 Receives Seal of Excellence Award "...PhotoImpact was [originally] introduced as an image editing tool following Photoshop's footsteps. Back then some considered it the poor man's version of Photoshop. Young artists who could not afford Adobe's prices were using PhotoImpact. I'm happy to report that PI has certainly come of age and found its own identity. PhotoImpact 8 is an image manipulation package covering almost all the needs of the 21st century artist."
Read the entire review
Animation magazine, December 2002
Digital Photography Made Easy Magazine, UK PhotoImpact 8 wins "Gear of the Year Award in Digital Photography" "The last six months has seen the release of two big hitting photo editors- PhotoImpact and Photoshop Elements. While Elements 2.0 is a great upgrade from version 1.0, the range of tools and special effects in PI8 make it instantly more accessible and relevant to digital photographers. This offering is a spectacular editing programme that beats the others hands down. Our congratulations go to [the developer of PhotoImpact] for producing a professional, useable and affordable photo editing package"
Digital Photography Made Easy Magazine, UK, January, 2003
CNET's Top 100 Products of 2002 PhotoImpact 8 Named "Best Consumer Image-Editing Software"
"PhotoImpact has a rep: it's widely acknowledged to be a powerful, yet playful, image-editing app. However, there are a ton of image editors available and it faced stiff competition to be labeled number one. Version 8.0 wins the honor, since it comes with a cadre of useful tools for digital photography buffs. And, if you want to explore Web graphics, you won't have to get another app, because PhotoImpact's got that covered as well."
CNET, December 2002
PC Photo Magazine PhotoImpact 8 receives Editor’s Choice
“Combining differently exposed shots of the same scene to expand the dynamic range of the final image is an exciting aspect of PhotoImpact 8 software.”
Read the entire review
PC Photo Magazine, December 2002
CNET Editor's Choice Award
"Among midlevel image-editing programs, including Adobe Photoshop Elements and Jasc Paint Shop Pro, PhotoImpact takes the prize for offering the widest range of features. This program's sheer versatility, healthy dose of fun, and inspiring tools are just the ticket for small businesses, individual artists, and digital-photo enthusiasts. Overall, Ulead's jack-of-all-trades is top-notch."
CNET, October 29, 2002
About.com - 4.5 Stars out of 5 "Few image editors allow the complete novice to quickly achieve polished-looking results as easily as PhotoImpact does. Even fewer provide such a complete set of tools and features at a price below $100. All in all, PhotoImpact provides an unparalleled blend of flexibility and ease of use, making it the best value photo editor for Windows."
About.com, October 2002
*Reviews, awards and ratings cited are of earlier versions of PhotoImpact.
$200 in Bonuses
$200 in Valuable Bonuses!
All you need is a before shot and an after shot, and PhotoImpact Pro's complete morphing program does the rest. Save your morphs in popular formats to add to videos or to animate web pages
New! Morph Controls
New! Frame Sequence View
New! Movies Effects
And Much More
Photo objects have transparent backgrounds, making them easy to add to any image.
Alien Skin's Xenofex 2 delivers 14 phenonemal effects for digital photographers and special effects enthusiasts.
Now it's easy to simulate spectacular natural phenomena like lightning and clouds. Create striking images using sophisticated distortions such as Flag, Television and Rip Open. The possibilities are endless!
Improve your photography skills with tips from the pros. This informative book by Dennis P. Curtin covers all of the fundamentals of digital photography and teaches you valuable tricks to unleash the full power of your digital camera.
Feature Summary
Capture & Organize
Easy Transfer from your digital camera to your PC
New!Optimized for High-Resolution Cameras
Enhanced!Photo Browsing: Now lightning fast!
Still Image Capture from camcorders and web cams
Keywords for fast photo searching
Photo Archiving
Correct & Enhance
Precise Adjustment of lighting, color cast, saturation, skin tone, focus, red eye and more.
Scratch Removal
Easy Erasing: Remove individual elements in a photo.
Rotate, Flip, Straighten and Crop
Expert Camera Filters including Moon filter, Sunlight filter, Diffraction filter and Beautify Skin filter
Batch Processing lets you convert or fix multiple photos at once.
Enhanced!High Dynamic Range brings out real-world luminance.
Share
Expanded!Paper-Saving Layouts: Print multiple photos, posters, cards and more.
Expanded!1,500+ Scrapbook Embellishments
Improved! TV Slide Shows you can view using a set-top DVD player (VCD format).
Web Albums and Slide Shows
Screen Savers and Wallpaper.
New! Save for Mobile: Easily save photos to display on your mobile phone, PDA, iPod, or PSP®.
Easy to Use!
Improved! Basic Mode
EasyPalette™ lets you drag-and-drop filter and effect presets.
On-Screen Video Tutorial
FREE Book: Get tips from the pros with the ultimate guide to digital photography.
Productive Workspace
Improved! Basic Mode
New!My Workspace: The right tools for every project!
Expanded! EasyPalette™ lets you drag-and-drop filter and effect presets.
200 Levels of Undo
Direct Select: Select objects on other layers simply by clicking them.
Design Tools
Paint Tool: 12 brush types, including Airbrush, Oil Paint and Marker.
Clone Tool to duplicate areas within an image.
Improved! Object Extraction Wizard: Easily move complex objects to new backgrounds.
New!Layer Masks with customized transparency
Transform Tool: Resize, Slant, Distort, Perspective and Rotate. Even rotate in Virtual 3D!
New!Vignettes: Make portraits stand out with soft-edge oval frames.
PhotoImpact Pro takes the worry out of photo correction with its exclusive 
