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Complete Feature List

User Interface, Manual, Installation

Almost all functions are embedded in easy to use and self explaining wizards
All wizards have reasonable presets for the standard use, so in most cases the user can simply click "Next" and will get great results - PhotoMeister has a lot of digital photograph knowhow built in!
An extensive manual (a PDF for printout) and an easy to use helpfile is included

1. Import

It does not get easier than this: PhotoMeister finds the photos of your camera automatically (in most cases)
Imports directly from camera's memory (e.g. if the camera software plugs into Windows Explorer Tree)
Imports from memory cards via memory card readers (e.g. on USB port)
Imports from TWAIN sources (for some camera drivers and most scanners)
Imports from any other folder on your computer
Photos are organized in "Albums" with standard naming conventions for easy management
An "Album" is simply a directory of standard JPG files on your computer’s disk drive (usually in the "My Files\My Pictures" directory) that you can access with any other software, too (!)
Generation of thumbnails (size can be set by user) for easy navigation inside a photo album
When a thumbnail is clicked the photo is shown enlarged and can be zoomed
Full screen view
Copy and Paste photos to/from the clipboard
Create, Rename, Delete Albums
Move, Copy, Duplicate Photos
Delete Photos (move photos to the Windows Recycle Bin)
Dump Photos (put photos aside and recall them later with a mouse click)
Display of EXIF photo data information, which is written into the photo files by most cameras. It contains e.g. date/time, exposure time and aperture of a photo.
PhotoMeister preserves the EXIF photo data wherever possible
When a photo file is altered by PhotoMeister the original file from the camera is automatically backed up and can be recalled later
Any photo can be set as Windows wallpaper
Works with JPG, TIF, BMP, PCX, ICO, CUR, PNG, WMF, EMF, TGA, PXM file formats

2. Improve

Rotating photos left/right with one click of the mouse
Cropping of unwanted areas
Adding frames to enhance photos (e.g. by adding a title or punch line)
Removing red eyes (PhotoMeister very likely offers the easiest assistant for red eye removal ever!)
Automatic Optimization using the advanced XE847 process which recalculates digital photo data based on physiology and psychology of the human vision (see www.xe847.com for details)
Convert a photo to black&white
Resize a photo's image file to another pixel-size
Filters:
Adjustments for

3. Impress

Photo Album Wizard

creates photo albums (see the Gallery for samples)
offers various, professionally designed page templates
each album page can have different page templates
auto layout assistant automatically chooses the best fitting templates
user can add comments and title to the album pages
prints the album on your local printer
exports the album as a PDF file to send it via email or on CD ROM
built in PDF writing library - no need for additional software necessary to create PDFs

Printing Wizard

Printing "Prints"
Print contact sheets and CD covers
see the Gallery for samples

Web Album Wizard

Creates HTML albums for the Web (see the Gallery for samples)
creates beautiful Web albums without any HTML knowledge required by the user - some simple mouseclicks are enough
HTML albums consist of several album pages with a small thumbnail of each photo and a detail page with a large view
the second option is to create Flash based albums that make use of Macromedia's Flash technology
more than 40 professionally designed layout templates included
layout templates can be edited with the built in template editor and you can create your own (Professional Edition only)
automatic creation of thumbnails and web ready files in selectable image sizes
album title, album comment and page footer can be set individually
automatic upload to a web server via built in FTP client
for each photo the title, a comment, the image data and the EXIF data (exposure time, aperture etc.) can optionally be shown in the HTML pages

E-Mail Wizard

Sends photos by email
makes it easy to send photos using any MAPI compatible email programs (e.g. Outlook, Netscape Mail, Eudora etc.) so the user does not have to learn a new email software
send photos as email attachments
photo files are automatically converted to file sizes and compression rates suitable for emails
image size and compression can be selected from presets or set individually

Screensavers And Slideshow Wizard

makes it easy to convert photos into a full powered screensaver or interactive slideshows
generates a single EXE file with all data built into it
image size and image compression can be set
a soundfile (mp3/wav/mid) can be played in the background
panorama photos are scrolled through the image (looks great!)
a copyright statement can be built into the screensaver/slideshow
several transitions effects and other aspects of the show can be set
titles of photos can be shown during presentation
after creation a screensaver can be set as default screensaver with one click of the mouse
see the Gallery for samples

Batch Wizard

runs batch processes for many photo files
easily converts a stack of photo files into a specific format
image size and compression level can be set by the user
output file format can be set to JPG, TIF, BMP, PNG, PCX
copyright string can be added to the photos
filenames can be preserved or set to several other formats

Prints Ordering Wizard

enables online ordering of photo prints with a few mouseclicks
photo data is automatically reduced to ensure fast transmission without loss of quality

CD ROM Wizard

Burns multimedia CD-ROMs, VideoCDs (SVCD) and backup CDs
complete CD ROM writing software built in, no additional software necessary
most CD/DVD writers are automatically supported
creates combined Photo Presentation CDs for DVD Players, PCs and Macs
make backups of your photo files on CD ROM