Table of Contents PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Table of Contents: Software Installation: Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Installing Photo Impressions 3 Welcome to PhotoImpression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Insert the Installation Software CD in the CD drive tray. Your System should automatically recognize the CD drive and start automatically.
PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Welcome to PhotoImpression • Huge assortments of project templates enable you to create customized greeting cards and calendars with your own images. Visioneer brings you ArcSoft PhotoImpression™, a simple yet powerful program for editing your imagings and creating fun photo projects. The program enables you to edit, retouch, enhance or add special effects to digital images with point-n-click simplicity.
5 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Main Screen Create - brings up creative options, including Frames & Edges, Cookie Cutter, Calendars, Greeting Cards, and Photo Fun. Nagivation Window Command Buttons Magnification Toolbar Save - lets you save or export your image in a variety of ways. The To File option lets you either save your image normally, or as a new file.
7 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Toolbar: Get Photo: Resize Flip Hor. Free Rotate Rotate Undo Redo Copy Paste Delete Layer Close Image Resize Layer- resizes the layer when the corner handles are dragged. You can also reposition the image by dragging it. Freehand Rotate - rotates the currently selected layer at the user's discretion when the corner handles are dragged. Flip Horizontally - applies a mirror effect to the currently selected layer by flipping it.
9 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Soft Edge Slider - gives cropped edges a warm fade based on the position of the slider. Apply To All Layers - crops all layers to the selected area when checked. Crop - crops the image to only show areas that have been selected. Edit Screen Crop: Rectangle - allows you to select a rectangular area on an image. Circle - works the same as the Rectangle tool except a circle is drawn instead of a rectangle.
11 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Eraser - removes color on a layer, making it a transparent background (white). Clone - duplicates a selected area of an image to another location. Right-click (Windows) or Shift-click (Macintosh) to select the clone source, which will be indicated by a plus (+) sign. Then click and drag over the area of the image to be painted with the clone source. Smudge - simulates the effect of a finger smearing wet paint.
13 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Text: When text is added, a new layer will be automatically created. Settings include font, style, size, and color. You can add a shadow to the text as well. PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Equalization - evenly redistributes the grayscale or color values of the pixels in an image. The effects are varied depending on the image, but in general, the lines in the highlight and shadow areas will be sharpened.
15 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide 16 Frames & Edges: Layers: The Layers Palette shows thumbnails of each layer. The currently selected layer will have a highlight around the thumbnail. Toggling the green light above the thumbnail on and off displays and hides the layer, respectively. The slider above the thumbnail adjusts the transparency of the layer. Note: An image can have multiple layers.
17 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide Save Screen Print Screen Once you’ve clicked on the Save button on the Main Screen, the following options will become available: PhotoImpression provides three different print options: To File: • Save - saves the changes that you’ve made to the existing file. • Save As - allows you to save the file in a new location, with a new name, and even a new file type.
19 PhotoImpression Quick Start Guide new pages will be made to accommodate all of your images. You can scroll through each page to preview them. At this point, you can also add text to images just for printing. Auto Rotate, Auto Crop, and Nudge commands are available. Thumbnail Printing: prints album thumbnails. You can print an entire album, or specific thumbnails. You can also choose different spacing options, add file names below the images, and review every page to be printed.
