User manual ARCSOFT PHOTO IMPRESSION 4.1 QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] Quick Start Guide An all-in-one photo enhancer and project maker. 4 Windows Macintosh ArcSoft PhotoStudio® The complete photo editing program for the home and office. Tons of ways to improve your photos, such as brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation. Or, apply special effects like sketch, ripple, oil painting and much more. ArcSoft PhotoImpressionTM A powerful, full-featured image-manipulation program for everyone! [. . . ] Choose whether or not to retain the original file format (for example, some cameras may save in a specific format--you can have the program convert the files to an option of your choice, or retain the original format). You can choose to have the program automatically name the files using the current date, or you can specify your own unique file name. Click the Acquire button if you are capturing from a still camera or scanner; click the Video Camera button if you are capturing a still from a video. Follow the procedures specific to your device to import the image into PhotoImpression. 10 ArcSoft PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Working with Albums Photo albums allow easy identification and access to images for viewing, editing, printing, etc. Simply click on the Get Photo button on the Main Screen, and select Album to view the album options. When an album is created, thumbnails are generated and a reference to where the files are located is recorded in the album file. For example, if a thumbnail is added into an album from a floppy disk, that floppy disk must be in the floppy drive in order to view the file. Album Tools: Select Album ­ allows you to view your albums through a pull-down. You can give new albums unique names by typing over the existing name. Add to Album ­ launches an Open dialog that allows you to browse your system to select files you'd like to add to the current album. Search ­ launches a Find dialog, allowing you to find image files in an album or on your system. Sort ­ allows you to sort the thumbnails in your album by name, type, size, or date. Slide Show ­ launches the Slide Show dialog with options that allow you to run a slide show of the images in the current album. View Album (Windows only) ­ runs a full-screen image viewer, which displays the images in the current album in a "notebook. It flips through each image, displaying one image per page. 11 ArcSoft PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Album Screen Saver (Windows only) ­ lets you make a Screen Saver Slide Show for your system. You have the option of removing only the thumbnails or both the thumbnails and the actual image files. Removing the image files will delete them permanently from your system. Editing Images Click the Edit button on the Main Screen to display the various editing options. Crop/Resize: Rectangle - allows you to select a rectangular area on an image. Circle - works the same as the Rectangle tool except a circle is drawn instead of a rectangle. Polygon - allows you to make a "freehand" selection by clicking and dragging over the image in a desired path or shape. You can select a polygonal area by clicking on the points of the desired shape in a connect-the-dots fashion. For example, if you've created a rectangular selection and then used the Inverse tool, the area selected would be outside of the box instead of inside. Copy Selection As New Layer - creates a new layer out of the selected area. 12 ArcSoft PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Soft Edge Slider - gives cropped edges a warm fade based on the position of the slider. Apply To All Layers - crops all layers to the selected area when checked. [. . . ] You can use the "insert" or "attach" function in your email program to manually select the image file(s) for inclusion in an email. 3. To Desktop (Windows only): Select the desired size for the attached image, then click send. 19 ArcSoft PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Printing Images PhotoImpression provides three different print options: Standard Printing Prints one image on a page. You can add a title, center the image and title, change the paper orientation, add a frame (a black outline) around the image, resize the image, and select the number of copies (Windows only) that you want printed. The Auto Rotate and Auto Crop buttons can be clicked to have your image maximized for the largest possible print. [. . . ]