General Information
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Type.................: Application
Platform.............: Windows XP, Vista x86



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Over View and Features
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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.

(For tutorial 
http://files.acdsystems.com/english/photoeditor/tutorials/valentinescard/valentines-card-tutorial.pdf)


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System Requirement
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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