An all-in-one organizing solution for photos, music and videos!Spend more time enjoying photos, music and videos and less time finding them. Ulead® Photo Explorer 8.5 is 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.You can browse and view your media lightning fast, describe, tag, rate, and search for photos instantly, use Calendar View to easily manage your photos, enhance photos and add creative effects, create slideshows with music, transitions & narration, edit video and save it in the most popular formats, and share photos by CD and DVD, print, e-mail, the Web.
• Organize & View Easily collect and add images, video or music clips into a central album for easier access and photo management. Photo Explorer opens your photos using a fullscreen viewer so that you can see photos in full detail. • Edit & Enhance Repair common photo problems automatically using Auto Level, Adjust, Color and Contrast. Trim video clips to remove unwanted segments from videos or commercials from recorded TV shows. • Share Print full-sized images, image thumbnails, greeting cards and calendars in various sizes and layouts. Create slideshows that include photos, video, music, narration, captions and transition effects, and share them by CD and DVD, email, the Web and more.
Features: • The Easy Access Window. Lets beginners easily use the key functions of Photo Explorer. It shows you how to quickly download your media files, how to edit and adjust photos and video, and how to share your media with family and friends. • The Enhanced Digital Camera Wizard. Provides a simple and instant way to download media from digital cameras or memory cards. • 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 managment. • Album Calendar View. 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 and modify the camera information embedded in your photos including date, time and shutter speed. • Instant Viewer. Opens your photos using a fullscreen viewer so that you can see your photos in full detail. • Rate Photos. Allows you to tag your photos with a rating, which makes them easier to search and find. • Add descriptive text. The description can be used for printing, searching and Web page output. • Browse, organize and work with Zip files. Zip and unzip files without the need for a separate Zip program. • Auto-Fix Functions. Help users 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. • Remove red eye effects. Give photos a more natural look. • Apply a variety of special effects. Charcoal, emboss, mosaic, noise, oil paint, pinch, ripple, tile, colored pen, watercolor, whirlpool, or wind for artistic flourishes. • Batch-enhance functionality. Lets users apply adjustments to a group of selected images at the same time. • Trim video clips. 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. • Print. Full-sized images, image thumbnails, greeting cards and calendars n various sizes and layouts. • Publish. Thumbnail Web pages. • Support. Epson PRINT Image Matching II for superior digital prints. • Create slideshows. Include photos, video, music, voiceover narration, captions and transition effects. • Burn slideshows. To CD for viewing on PCs or create Video CD's (VCD) for TV viewing. • Export. Slideshows as Windows screen savers or publish slideshows to Web pages. • Optimize. Send photos, video clips and self-extracting Web slideshows to e-mail recipients.
What's New:
Get Photos and Media * 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.
View & Organize * Create Albums: Enables you to 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: 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.
Enhance * Auto-Fix Functions: 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: 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.
Share * Export Slideshows as a Video File: Another choice for sharing 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.