Between
the May presentation by Microsoft on digital photography and
the June demonstration by Matthew Greger of Apple IPhoto, I purchased a digital camera (better
late than never). With more time spent at work for mom and with
summer vacation just around the corner, translating into more
time spent at home for my sons, the kids got the opportunity
to use the camera and check out its possibilities way before
I was even able to open the package.
The result is that both kids know
how to use the camera including downloading photos and video
on the computer; mom does not
yet. What I noticed, however,
is that there are pictures on my hard disk in random order. Trying
to keep the computer organized, I welcome Jeff Setaro's presentation
on CompuPic Pro, a photo management program,
at the July 2, 2002 general meeting. CompuPic is actually a program
that I had purchased at one point, but that I never re-installed
on the present computer. Jeff's presentation may move me into
action.
The Pro Version of CompuPic has
the following features:
- Publish pictures online with customized
web pages. Use the included themes or write your own custom templates.
- Create Photodex PictureCDsTM, including
all the software needed to view the pictures
- Prepare images with Advanced Batch
Conversions
perform actions like Auto-Correct, crop, resize,
text and image watermarking, and more to any number of images
at once.
- Download pictures and media files
faster with the Web Site Scanner.
Select and convert colors using the Web Page Color Selector.
- Enhance images with advanced features
like Drop Shadow and Advanced Text Effects.
- Customize file information display
for faster browsing.
- Visually browse HTML files using
thumbnails.
- Fastest Visual Browsing
- Fastest thumbnail creation
- Effortless support for browsing
through hundreds of thousands of files
- Fastest performance for entering
and browsing folders with large numbers of files
- Integrated address bar for easier
navigation with Back / Next and recent folders
- Select multiple folders at once
Browse ZIP archives just like folders
- Automatic or manual thumbnail creation
- Thumbnail pictures, videos, fonts,
clip-art, text files and more
- Perfect quality, real-time preview
- Supports over 70 file formats
- Five different view modes
- Full File Management
- Copies and moves files faster than
Windows® Explorer
- Configurable actions for launching
files in other applications
- Sort files in any order with custom
ordering
- Cut, copy and paste files
- Duplicate, rename, delete files
- Copy files and images for use in
other applications
- Acquire pictures from any digital
camera or scanner
- View Pictures
- Fast full screen or windowed viewing
- Zoom and pan with incredible quality
- Quickly navigate to next and previous
images using the mouse or keyboard
- Incredible Slide Shows
- Over 100 eye-popping Slide Show
transitions
- Use background sounds and music
- Unique Maxi-Show displays multiple
images at once.
- Make Quick Enhancements
- Auto-correct images
- Adjust brightness, contrast, color,
hue and more
- Crop and Auto-Crop pictures
- Add fuzzy vignette borders
- Remove red-eye
- Resize to any size
- Rotate to any angle
- Overlay high quality text, talk
bubbles, and thought bubbles
- Share Online
- Integrated e-mail makes sending
files easy
- Automatically generates web pages
- Upload photos to popular online
photo sharing sites like PictureCD.com. Supports more photo sharing
sites than any other application
- Send Digital Greeting Cards
- Order postcards using Amazing Mail.com
- Order poster sized prints using
Bignose.com
- Powerful Tools
- Print pictures at any size
- Create customized Picture Index
contact sheets
- Batch rename any number of files
- Batch convert files to multiple
formats
- Losslessly rotate any number of
files at once
- Create screen savers and desktop
wallpaper
CompuPic Pro offers the most features.
Photodex
has two other CompuPic programs with a few less bells and whistles,
but that could well meet the need of the less specialist user.
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