dacs.doc electric

 

Park and Pamper Your Pixels
With CompuPic

By Marlene Gaberel

 

CompuPic Pro Screen ShotBetween 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.


Marlène Gaberel is a DACS board member and VP for Public Relations. You can e-mail her at: marlene_gaberel @yahoo.com.

BackHomeNext