ACDSee Photo Editor Product Details

ACDSee Photo Editor, the perfect software for creating amazing digital projects with your photos. Take photos and combine them with digital scrapbooking kits to make pages that will be treasured for a lifetime. In Photo Editor, tasks such as writing text on a path, resizing multiple embellishments, and creating a vignette effect are all easy and straightforward. In addition to creating scrapbook pages, use ACDSee Photo Editor to create birth announcements, thank you cards and many more printable gifts for family, friends and relatives. Your imagination is the limit!

Learn with How-tos

Turn family photos into digital magic with Photo Editor's How-tos. Each How-to walks you through your chosen activity, with detailed and easy-to-follow instructions. Learn about Antiquing a photo, Applying a Vignette, fixing Red-eye with a single click, and creative projects like making Gift Tags and Greeting Cards. Photo Editor walks you through every step of the way.

Stylize a Photo

Choose from a wide range of adjustments and filters that give your photos an artistic touch. Create stunning portrait-style photos for your family-tree project with Photo Editor's Vignette tool. Add blurs, make colors more vivid, and apply various filters for dramatic effect.

Best of all, with Photo Editor's Variations you can see up to 8 different previews of your original photo on screen, each preview showing a different variation of the effect you're applying. With every adjustment you can see what your photo will look like before you actually make the change.

Create Photo Crafts

Share your memories in creative ways. Enhance, stylize, crop, and print your photos for your paper craft project, or create an entirely digital scrapbook page.

Enhance your journaling text by use the Eyedropper tool to match the color of your text to your photos or elements. Write text in the shape of a curve or other path, or wrap the text inside an object you've inserted (like a star or heart shape).

Create layouts with papers and elements from your own digital scrapbooking kits. You'll have full flexibility to rotate, layer and add artistic effects. Use drop shadows and change the transparency of elements add realism to your craft.

With Photo Editor, you can easily make framed photos, albums, greeting cards, tags, wrapping paper, place settings, CD covers and more into personalized keepsakes.

Easy Fixes

Use powerful and fast fix tools including Red Eye, Dodge, Burn, Sharpen, and Smudge. Try the Auto-adjustments feature for one-click Auto Color Balance, Auto Levels, Auto Sharpen, or Auto Contrast. Use Auto Fix to make all the necessary adjustments for you at once, or take full control of each adjustment using sliders.

Advanced Features

As you get more advanced and want more precision in the ways you create, explore Photo Editor's masking capabilities. Masking provides ultimate creative flexibility, allowing you to adjust the transparency (how much background is allowed to show through). By using masks you can blend images together and apply fades for even more realistic looks.

System Requirements
Hardware

    * Intel Pentium 4-class or equivalent.
    * 512 MB RAM
    * 100 MB free hard disk space
    * 16-bit color or higher (True color recommended), 1024x768 or higher screen resolution recommended

Software

    * Windows® 2000, Windows® XP (Home and Professional editions)
      or Windows Vista™
    * Microsoft® Internet Explorer™ 6.0.0