I bought this program after noticing it was being promoted more and more by people whose art I really respected. How could anything be as easy as they said, but as versatile as Photoshop? Photoimpact 5 is just that. IT IS GORGEOUS. The program is so chock full of filters, fills, effects etc. Wow. This is an instant saving of a kazillion quid. Plus you can point the program at any filters you already have, and it will just bring them right in for you. Very handy. You could spend a lifetime experimenting. Fortunately you don't have to - after a few seconds you can get results worthy of any of the graphic profs working today. It lets you make instant background tiles, neat buttons, easy interfaces. For sets you create yourself, it will write the code if need be. Being ulead you get the benefit of the great slicing tools. I tend to make the graphic I want in Photoimpact 5 and reassemble the slices in my fave HTML editor. Get this on line. Costs about 50 quid-ish from the ulead site. It's worth four times that. Only down side - not totally brilliant for the purist. I am always messing about with colour to make sure it is web safe. Other than that? Perfect. For gifted amateurs and open minded professionals alike.
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Jul 4th, 2000
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