SmartSaver 3.0

• Provides optimum image compression/quality ratio
• Real-time previewing against any background
• Supports GIF, JPG and PNG formats
• Supports optimized, browser-safe and custom color palettes

Advanced Button Design

• Create any-shaped 3D buttons
• Choose any 3D bevel style
• Set bevel depth and smoothness
• Customize shadows and glow effects
• Apply texture for real 3D look

Background Design

• Create from rectangular selections
• Generate seamless backgrounds
• 21 built-in texture groups and 141 customizable color controls
• 24 background types to customize
• Create natural, paper, sand, rock and marble-like texture

GIF Animator Version 2.0

• Wizard walks you through the process
• Drag-and-drop images
• Select from a variety of transition effects
• View parameters simultaneously
• View multiple frames
• Edit palettes including a "browser-safe" palette
• Easily optimizes file sizes
• Preview file sizes and download times

Java Button.Applet

• Create interactive buttons
• Add mouse rollover effects
• Includes Applet Wizard
• Import GIF and JPEG images
• Generate interesting text effects
• Instant in-browser previews
• Builds the needed HTML code

HTML Assistant

• Automatically generate HTML code for backgrounds and images
• Create pre-loading, low resolution bitmaps
• Copy HTML code to clipboard

Image Map Tags

• Supports HTML3, CERN and NSCA formats

Graphical Content

• Over 450 GIF animations
• Over 12,000 useful photo clips, objects, images and textures
• 92 complete sets of Web page graphics

Creative Tools and Effects

• Apply Painting Effects to images
• Add Type Effects to text like emboss, sand, fire, snow, neon and glass
• Add fire, rain, clouds, snow, smoke, bubbles, fireflies, and stars to images
• Apply gradients, light, kaleidoscope, and turnpage effects to images, objects or selections
• Apply a variety of image filters
• Paint on edges of selection area or object
• Warp images Paint, draw and clone with different tools
• Work with a color replacement pen
• Draw straight, freehand strokes
• Set a variety of brush attributes

Text Options

• Create and edit text as 2D, 3D or paths
• Fill with color, gradient or texture
• Add one-step drop shadows
• Distort text creatively
• Enhance readability with anti-aliasing

3D Toolbox

• Create attractive 3D text and objects
• Choose from 5 different 3D modes

Frame and Shadow

• Create 2D and 3D frames
• Customize inner- and outer-frame styles
• Select frame fills from texture libraries
• Add and customize drop shadows

Color Picker

• Utilize Windows or Ulead Color Picker
• Use eyedropper to choose colors
• Specify Hex values for accurate selection

Exceptional Design Tools

• Create and edit Bezier curve-based paths
• Make custom-shaped paths, selections and 3D objects
• Import vector shapes to create path objects
• Convert raster to vector for path editing

Object-based Composition

• Visually manage, name, and reorder objects
• Set object edge blending
• Group, ungroup, and hide objects
• Lock objects into place
• Choose from 13 object merge modes

Color Management System

• Offers support for Windows 98 and NT 4.0
• Utilize greater color consistency between various input and output devices

Production Basics

• Choose from three multi-level user interfaces
• Use Guided Workflow Tools
• Preview editing decisions
• Take advantage of 99 levels of undo and redo
• Apply Post-Processing Wizard
• Record macros of repeated editing decisions

EasyPalette

• Choose visual galleries and libraries
• Create your own galleries
• Preview effects before you apply "Pick-and-Apply" a desired effect
• Store edit decisions as thumbnails
• Select from Effect, Painting, Creative, Materials, Magic, Style, Texture, Gradient, Web, and Frame Galleries
• Use Object Libraries like Path, Image & Web
• Keep track of objects and store them as thumbnails in Layer Manager

Grid & Partition and More

• Customize grid size and color
• Segment an image into a grid of objects to allow for multiple hotlinks

PhotoImpact Album

• Manage files visually with database capabilities and over 65,000 images in each album
• Display up-to-date thumbnails in a folder
• Custom description fields
• Display a variety of thumbnail sizes
• Powerful, easy searching and sorting tools
• Easily produce multimedia slide shows

File Format and Datatype Conversions

• Batch convert among file formats
• Color reduction and color palette editing

Supports: BMP, EPS, FPX, GIF, JPEG, PCD, PNG, PSD, TIFF, TGA, WMF and many more file formats