Corel PhotoImpact X3

• License:

  Free to try; $69.99 to buy (Buy it now)

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.0 stars (out of 118 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  2,127,143

• Requirements:

  Windows XP/Vista

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  January 15, 2008

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Ulead PhotoImpact X3 Ulead PhotoImpact 12 Ulead PhotoImpact 11 Ulead PhotoImpact 11.0 Ulead PhotoImpact 10.0 Ulead PhotoImpact XL Ulead PhotoImpact XL Ulead PhotoImpact XL 8.5 Ulead PhotoImpact 8.0 PhotoImpact 7.0 PhotoImpact 6.0 PhotoImpact 5.0 PhotoImpact 4.2 PhotoImpact 4

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Publisher's description of Corel PhotoImpact

Corel PhotoImpact X3 combines full-featured photo editing with inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art to make digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy. Easy & Fast ExpressFix Mode: Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options put the tools you need at your fingertips. Instantly fix exposure, color, and composition. Beginners like the simplicity, experienced users like the efficiency. Take Your Photos to New Places Use easy wizards to create fun photo projects and gifts. Choose from over 200 customizable templates for a wide range of ways to share your pictures. Collages Comic strips Calendars Greeting cards Create Amazing Digital Art: Paint realistic looking clouds with the cloud pen, Enhance your photos with creative filters, and draw and paint like a pro.

Version X3 includes Corel Painter Essentials 3 Full Version, Slideshow Prep Wizard, and new crop tools.

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Editor's review of Corel PhotoImpact

• 5.0 stars

• "Picture perfect"

Perhaps a touch less powerful than the most elaborate photo-editing packages, Corel has expanded Ulead's PhotoImpact and blown it up. The download file is nearly double the size of the last version, but PhotoImpact X3 makes a concerted effort to compete with Adobe. Positioned between Elements and Photoshop, this app delivers everything most users need: editing tools, effects, and ready-made elements for creations.

The wide variety of textures, frames, effects, animations, and brushes wouldn't necessarily justify the download, but the app is more or less a snap to use. Wizard dialogs let you instantly create attractive and functional Web-page objects, including buttons, image maps, bullets, and backgrounds. The program works with layers, too. The traditional photo-editing interface has only one peculiarity: the main docked panel, which can hold all the other panels and quickly hide and show them. It also lets you quickly switch among work-space layouts. Beginners, for instance, can display just the controls for basic editing.

All in all, this powerful graphics program will appeal to photographers and Web designers who need a significantly cheaper alternative to monster packages such as Photoshop.

User reviews

• Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 118 votes
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• 5 stars

  Version: Corel PhotoImpact X3

  "Packed!"

  by Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay on January 21, 2008

  Pros: Spellbinding! It's got all you can think about your photographs. Just open the images and do the required changes. Save it to get the best out of your images. Simply speaking, with this cool piece of software, you can get the world of photo editing at your fingertips.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Corel PhotoImpact X3

  "its hard to manipulate...."

  by digamontanji on May 31, 2008

  Pros: i only like the pens thats all..

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• 5 stars

  Version: Corel PhotoImpact X3

  "Better than the best!"

  by xjay.com on April 28, 2008

  Pros: I have been using Ulead PhotoImpact since v.7 with absolutley no complaints aside from a needed BugFix here and there, which was always taken care ASAP. I hope Corel is as reliable as ULEAD was. So far, so good with PI X3. Anything PS can do, PI X3 can do just as good in one-tength of the time. The features and the price tag cannot be beat by any other Graphics editor.

  Cons: Newbie reviewers.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Corel PhotoImpact X3

  "Great but not supported by Corel"

  by henryisland on August 4, 2008

  Pros: I have used this exellent software for years as a semi-pro because it is intuitive and quick with virtually every tool that Photoshop has, but with a usable, right-clickable interface. MUCH simpler than Photoshop.

  Cons: Corel has stopped updating to supported cameras, ie. newer Nikons are not supported (D300, D3, etc) The answer they gave me was "we're not allowed to say" if we will support new hardware. Arrogant. Also does not seem to be fully functional with Vista 64 bit.

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• 5 stars

  Version: Corel PhotoImpact X3

  "it is very good"

  by toxiczizi on July 21, 2008

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