Want to start being creative with your digital photos, but don't know where to begin?

Maybe you think being creative with your photos is too difficult. Maybe you think digital creativity is reserved for the photo professionals of the world.

We understand your reservations. And that's why we've designed ACDSee Photo Editor. For family photo lovers like you – people who want to turn their everyday shots into something extra special.

Be creative with your photos and learn how to get the best results in the shortest number of steps. Get the tools and clear instruction you need to turn your digital pictures into something truly memorable - photos that will last a lifetime.

Create stylized photos for use in cards, albums, and calendars of your kids, friends, extended family, vacations, and memorable moments for everyone to share.

Photo Editor actually teaches you how to make the creative changes you want, like adding Lens Flare, Glowing Edges, Oil Paint, and a ton of other cool effects that are a cinch to apply. It also gives you creative project ideas, and shows you the steps and tools you need to turn them into a reality.

Photo Editor is a useful program that teaches you how to fix common photo problems, like poor exposure, red-eye, awkward framing, fuzziness, skin blemishes, lens flares, etc.

Acdsee Photo Editor gives you all the support and resources to fix and create with your photos from the moment you first use the software.

And, with guided walk-throughs (called How-tos) built right into the application, each and every step to creating perfect photos is made easy and enjoyable for you.

Here are some key features of "Acdsee Photo Editor":

· How-tos: Guided walk-throughs that teach you how to be creative with your photos. They show you how to do different creative tasks with your photos, step by step, from start to finish.
· Adjustment/Filter Variations: Displays up to 8 different previews of your original photo, right on screen, each preview showing a different variation of the effect, adjustment, or filter you're applying.
· Batch editing: Any Adjustments/Filters you want to use can be applied to more than one photo at a time with just a couple of clicks.
· Image Basket: Displays thumbnails of any photos you're working on, so you can see the work you've already done.
· Vignette tool: Creates stunning portrait-style photos that can go into your family album, or be used to make gift cards or pages in a family-tree project.
· Cookie Cutter tool: Quickly crop a composition into fun shapes like letters and numbers, then use them as titles, dates, or fun captions on your photos.
· Auto-Adjustments: One-click Auto Color Balance, Auto Levels, Auto Sharpen, or Auto Contrast.
· Repair tool: Easily remove blemishes, spots, or scratches from a photo and get the results you're looking for almost instantly.
· Text Support: Add clever, descriptive, or funny text to your albums. Add both vertical and horizontal text in the size and font-style of your choosing.
· Properties Bar: Shows you all the options available for the tool you're using, so you can tweak and customize the effect to get the creative results you want.
· Gradients: Apply pre-set color gradients, or create your own and apply them to text and objects in your photos for a layered color scheme.


Requirements:

· Intel Pentium 4-class or equivalent.
· 512 MB RAM
· 100 MB free hard disk space
· 16-bit color or higher (True color recommended), 1024x768 or higher screen resolution recommended
· Internet Explorer 6.0


Limitations:

· 132 days trial.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Photo Editor features new layout templates to help get you started
· Choose a common scrapbooking page size as a work area option. Start your project with one of Photo Editor's new scrapbooking templates.
· Create custom paths for curved headline and callout text, plus custom shapes to wrap text in. Add large journaling blocks with ease, and directly paste your text from Microsoft Word
· Dynamically edit your photos by applying your changes as Object Effects. You can remove or adjust them anytime before flattening.
· Preserve the quality of your photos and other digital elements by 'soft' resizing and rotating. The details in your photos will remain sharp.
· Warp an image while instantly previewing the effect.
· Rotate and crop and your photos simultaneously.
· Enjoy even more control over the Sepia effect for the perfect antiqued look.
· Use template objects as masks to cut your photos and elements into shapes, or create a mask on top of another object.
· Quickly resize your images for accur...