Digital Photo Album

Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5
Acquire, Organize, Edit and Share all your Digital Media

Features and Benefits

Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5 lets you spend more time enjoying photos, music and videos and less time finding them. Its the all-in-one solution for owners of digital cameras, camcorders, scanners or anyone who wants to make it easier to keep track of their media.

Easy Access

The Easy Access Window lets beginners easily use key functions of Photo Explorer. It shows you how to quickly download your media files, how to edit and adjust pictures and video, and how to share your media with family and friends. Automatic camera detection helps you save more time by importing and saving your photos to your computer in one simple step. The Enhanced Digital Camera Wizard provides a simple and instant way to download media from digital cameras or memory cards. Memory Card Detection automatically starts data download when your card is inserted into a memory card reader. Capture single or multiple video frames from a live video source at designated time intervals. Scan Internet for Images enables you to easily download Web page images at one time and eliminates the tedious process of saving each image separately. Album Creation lets you easily collect and add images, video or music clips into a central album for easier access and photo management. Album Calendar View is the fastest way to find and view your photos. Click on a selected date in the calendar and see all the pictures or video that you took on that date. EXIF 2.2 support lets you view the camera information embedded in your photos including date, time and shutter speed. Auto Slicing allows you to scan a group of photos together and then automatically slice them into individual images. Instant Viewer opens your photos using a fullscreen viewer so that you can see your photos in full detail. Scan Tree and Scan CD let you quickly view thumbnails for improved browsing performance. Sort image files by name, size, creation date, type, personal rating and date photo taken. Rate Photos allows you to tag your photos with a rating, which makes them easier to search and find. Add descriptive text to your images via the convenient input interface. The description can be used for printing, searching and Web page output. Search media using names, descriptions or ratings. The search results appear in a separate folder for further processing. Browse, organize and work with Zip files as easily as with normal folders. Zip and unzip files without the need for a separate Zip program. Create offline CD catalogs by scanning and generating thumbnails from photo CDs. Keep the thumbnails available for browsing and searching even after taking the CD out of the drive.

Edit and Enhance

Images Auto-Fix Functions help you repair common photo problems automatically using Auto Level, Adjust, Color and Contrast. The auto commands can be applied to a single image or to multiple images at the same time with just one click. Lossless JPEG technology allows you to rotate and save photos without any loss of quality. Crop unwanted areas of photos. Straighten and rotate images. Control brightness and contrast of images. Adjust color balance with instant previews. Manipulate hue, saturation and brightness of images for fine image control. The Histogram tool allows you to adjust the black, white and gray point of an image. Focus control lets you blur or sharpen images. Remove red eye effects to give photos a more natural look. Correct spherical and trapezoidal distortion created by camera lenses. Create tone effects such as sepia, duotone and monochrome. Apply a variety of special effects such as charcoal, emboss, mosaic, noise, oil paint, pinch, ripple, tile, colored pen, watercolor, whirlpool, or wind for artistic flourishes.

Organize & View

Batch-enhance functionality lets you apply adjustments to a group of selected images at the same time. Modify EXIF data to more accurately store the image information. Record sound annotation into images. The annotation can be embedded in metadata or in a separate file. Convert a batch of files to a preferred file format, resolution or cropped aspect ratio is a great time saving feature. Add text or stamps to images with control of font face, size, style and color. One-click access to the image editor for advanced editing.
Export slideshows to the Windows screen saver. Publish slideshows to Web pages. Output photo album Web pages. Optimize and send photos to e-mail recipients. Optimize and send video clips to e-mail recipients. E-mail Web slideshows as self-extracting EXE files. Intel Pentium III processor or above Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended) 45 MB of available hard drive space for program installation True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor; 800x600 display resolution Windows-compatible pointing device 16-bit or better sound card and speakers (recommended) CD-ROM drive or CD/DVD Burner (for slideshow CD) DirectX 8.1 or above

System Requirements

Video and Audio Browse industry standard video and audio formats.* Trim video clips to remove unwanted segments from videos or even commercials from recorded TV shows. Enhanced in this version is the ability to trim out multiple segments from a video at the same time. Convert video files between industry-standard formats and optimize them for e-mail. Convert a series of images into a video clip.

File Format Support

Images: 001, BMP, CLP, CUR, DCS, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF ,ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, LZW, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF, UFO, UPI and WMF Animation, Video & Audio: GIF Animation, AVI, QVT, WAV, AVA, MID, MP3, MPEG1 and MPEG2 - (codecs must be installed)
Print full-sized images, image thumbnails, greeting cards and calendars with print preview functionality. Print 3.5, 4, 5 and 6 images in various configurations. Supports Epson PRINT Image Matching II for superior digital prints. Burn slideshow CDs with transition effects, background music and video clips for displaying on the PC or on the TV. - The PC Slideshow CD includes Auto Run for automatic playback on computers. - The TV slideshow CD supports DVD, SVCD and VCD formats and can be played back on standard home DVD players.** Enhanced slideshow features offer striking transition effects and synchronizes the background music with the slides. Export slideshows as video files. Send the video by email or use the video file as part of a video or DVD project.

Compatible Devices

Digital Cameras PC Cameras/WebCams Camcorders DV Camcorders (FireWire/i.LINK) Scanners Memory Card Readers USB Flash Drives Capture Boards (WDM) IEEE 1394 (FireWire) Boards Windows Compatible Printers
* See File Format Support. ** Check your DVD player for compatibility.
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Digital Photo Album

Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5
Acquire, Organize, Edit and Share all your Digital Media

Whats New

The Easy Access Window lets beginners easily use the key functions of Photo Explorer. It shows you how to quickly download media files to your computer, how to edit and adjust pictures and video, and how to share their media with family and friends. Automatic camera detection helps you save more time by importing and saving your photos to your computer in one simple step. It can also take you to CD & DVD PictureShow 3 to create dynamic slideshows in the least amount of time. With Create Albums you can collect images, video or music clips into a central album to more easily keep track of files. Customize these albums according to special occasions or show all folders at the same time. Album Calendar View lets you view photos by the date they were taken. Simply click on a selected date in the calendar and see all pictures from that date. The calendar also shows the total amount of photos or video according to the date. Auto-Fix functions help you repair common photo problems automatically using Auto Level, Adjust, Color and Contrast. The auto commands can be applied to a single image or to multiple images at the same time with just one click using the Batch command. Trim Video Clips to remove unwanted segments from videos or even commercials from recorded TV shows. Enhanced in this version is the ability to trim out multiple segments from a video at the same time. Export Slideshows as a Video File gives you another choice to share your slideshows with family and friends. Besides burning to disc, now you can export your slideshow as a video file. You can then send the video by email or even use the video file as part of a CD & DVD PictureShow 3 slideshow project.
2000-2004 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ulead and the Ulead logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Other product names used herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purposes only.
www.ulead.com www.ulead.co.uk www.ulead.de www.ulead.fr www.ulead.co.jp www.ulead.com.cn www.ulead.com.tw www.ulead.com.hk www.asiapac.ulead.com