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The File Menu
- New... open a new image or webpage
- Open... browse your harddrive for an existing image
- Browse... opens the Browse Manager so you can visually choose an image on your harddrive
- Open from Web... open an image directly from the web, or open a webpage as an image
- Restore... returns the image to it's original state; this cannot be undone
- Close... close the file
- Save... saves the file to the existing file
- Save As... saves the file as a new file
- Save All... saves all the open files
- Save for Web... creates an HTML document and/or optimizes your images for Web posting
- Preview in Browser... previews the file in a browser; can also preview tiled images
- Batch Convert... converts the image data type and/or file format of all files in a selected folder
- Digital Camera... opens the Digital Camera Wizard
- Scanner... collects images from your scanner
- Import... opens a RAW image
- Export... send an image to your desktop, e-mail, the Internet...
- Screen Capture... like the PrtScrn key only with options
- Page Setup... print setup
- Print Preview... same as other applications
- Print... ditto
- More Print Functions... print a poster or print a bunch
- Image Properties... statistical information about the image such as data type, file format, size, and EXIF data
- Preferences... set up PI your way
- Open Recent Files... opens recent files, how many depends on how you've set your Preferences
- Exit... if you'd rather not use the red x
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The Edit Menu
- Undo Before... undoes all the actions before, and including, the one you choose
- Redo To... the reverse of the above
- Clear Undo/Redo History... removes all the entries from the above lists
- Repeat... the last action
- Cut... removes the selected item and places it on the Clipboard
- Copy... as above but copies it instead
- Paste... a variety of ways to paste an item or selection into the file
- Clear... delete information without affecting the contents of the clipboard
- Duplicate... create another one with three different choices
- Clipboard... three options for dealing with it
- Crop... discards the image content outside a selected area and resizes the image accordingly
- Rotate & Flip... various options, just like the Transform tool
- Place as Base Image... replaces the base image with the new file
- Fill... opens the Fill dialog box
- Fade-out... used to make part of the image fade away
- Stitch Scanned Images... creates a new image by connecting two images together
- Trace Edges... creates a path object from an image
- Edit Active Objects Only... useful if objects are overlapping each other
- Mask Mode... toggles in and out of mask mode; also on Tool Panel
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The Adjust Menu
- Auto-Process... provides a sub-menu where different fixes are automatically applied
- Style... adds or replaces tints for interesting effects
- Brightness & Contrast... adjusts luminosity and contrast
- Level... scientifically adjusts highlights and shadows
- Hue & Saturation... color balance and intensity
- Tone Map... adjusts the degree of lightness or darkness based on the current distribution of colors in an image
- Highlight Midtone Shadow... individually adjusts those three lighting levels
- Color Balance... play with color
- Color Adjustment... play more with color
- Color Replacement... continue playing with color
- Invert... reverse those colors
- Posterize... remember Peter Maxx?
- Threshold... separates the image pixels into black or white extreme values
- Equalize... brightens a too-dark picture technologically
- Calculation... merges two images together
- Scanned Image Fix... quick photo fix in seven steps
- Resize... well, change the size... but there are a few goodies tucked in here
- Resolution... make changes for web display or printing
- Expand Canvas... adds pixels to any or all edges of an image
- Convert Data Type... the same menu appears as in Data Type in the lower right of your screen
- Color Table... see the colors in your indexed 16- or 256-color image
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The Photo Menu
- ExpressFix... a very nice collection of photo fixes, each one nearly infinitely variable
- Auto-Process... Adjust>Auto-Process but fewer options
- Brightness & Contrast... adjusts luminosity and contrast
- Level... scientifically adjusts highlights and shadows
- Enhance Lighting... corrects common light exposure errors
- Focus... adjusts the blurry or sharpy
- Color Balance... same as Adjust>...
- Color Cast... removes any color incorrectly dominating an image to bring out its true colors
- Hue & Saturation... again, same as Adjust>...
- Tone Map... again, same as Adjust>...
- Highlight Midtone Shadow... again, same as Adjust>...
- Remove Red Eye... removes the flash glare from eyes
- Blur... various blurs
- Sharpen... various sharpens
- Noise... add or remove noise or other distortions
- Enhance... improves an image with your choice of seven assorted photographic effects
- Lens Filters... a collection of nifty lens filters, like might be on a real camera
- Lens Distortion... remove distortion created by wide-angle lenses, or add that distortion!
- High Dynamic Range... combine photos to repair exposure problems
- Photo Frame... add frame, shadow and/or text to an image
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The Effect Menu
- All... opens a sizeable submenu with all built-in effects & filters
- Lighting... lots of effects to change the lighting and ambience in your image
- Artistic... many ways to make your image or photo look like a painting
- Distort... all sorts of ways to change the shape of things
- Fillls & Textures... add texture to an image, or add pattern or even create patterns from the image
- Creative... the sky's the limit here; kaleidoscope, turnpage, and animation effects
- Video... shows a submenu offering adjustments to images obtained from videos
- The subsection below Video is a listing of all the third-party filters you've installed, and it can continue on to more columns
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The Selection Menu
- Show/Hide Selection... toggles between showing or hiding the active selection
- None... deselects all selections
- All... selects entire image (nice for making an object of an image: click All, click Convert to Object)
- Invert... selects all unselected areas while deselecting all selected areas
- Border... creates a border around the selection
- Expand/Shrink... increases or decreases the selection area
- Similar... selects similar pixels to those already chosen
- Soften... fades the edges of a selection
- Select by Color Range... selects portions of the image based on color similarity
- Convert to Object... creates an object from the current selection
- Preserve Base Image... keeps the base image intact; uncheck to remove sections of the base image
- Store Selection... save selections for another day
- Load Selection... what you do on another day
- Import Selection... usually importing a greyscale image as a mask
- Export Selection... saves a greyscale image for use as a mask
- Copy Selection to Object Library... saves a mask to the EP
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The Object Menu
- Insert Image Object... several ways to create or open a new image object
- Duplicate... creates a copy and places it in the image
- Merge... melds the object into the base
- Merge All... melds everything to the base
- Merge as Single Object... creates one out of many
- Delete... say bye-bye
- Select All Objects... all objects in the window
- Deselect All Objects... yep
- Defringe... blends an object's edges with the background
- Match Background Color... in certain situations blends an object with its background
- Extract Object... create an object from an image
- Edit Object... or... whatever it says depending on what it's referring to; opens an editing facility
- Wrap... bends or wraps texts or paths
- Trim Object... deletes area around object
- Convert Object Type... within reason, change sorts of objects
- Group... bundles objects so you can work with them at once
- Ungroup... undo the above
- Align... lines up several objects in several ways
- Arrange... change the order of layers
- Shadow... place a shadow on an object; there are limitless varieties here
- Split Shadow... changes the shadow of an object into its own editable object
- Import Object... replace an object with another
- Export Object... send an object elsewhere
- Copy to Object Library... adds it to the EP, bypassing the Clipboard
- Properties... all you ever wanted to know or change about your object or image
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The Web Menu
- HTML Text Object... text to your webpage
- Link Object... various objects on your webpage
- Rollover... create cool rollover buttons
- Component Designer... bunch of pre-designed web objects that you can customize
- Background Designer... make a nifty background for your webpage
- Button Designer... make any sort of button for your webpage
- Web Properties... all you ever needed to know about your page
- Check HTML Rendering Errors... find where you went wrong
- Web Attributes... a submenu of options for changing a Web object (such as link, component or rollover) attributes
- Grid and Partition... create a grid on your image
- Shift Image... moves the image in the frame
- Create Seamless Tile... creates a new image from the current selection area that can be used as a seamlessly tiled background
- Object Editor Manager... displays and manages the external application editors
- Helper Program... specify the location of the application you want to use to open the current image in
- Image Optimizer... save images for the web or e-mail
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The View Menu
- Add a View... opens a new window of the same image
- Actual View... resizes to 100%
- Maximize at Actual View... it fits the workspace
- Zoom... magnification from 1% to 1600%
- Fit in Window...
- Full Screen... your image fills the whole screen; click the ESC key to get your monitor back!
- Show Base Image... toggles the base image on and off
- Show Marquee... toggles the "marching ants" around objects
- Show Box Around Objects... toggles a box around objects (green) or Web objects (red)
- Show Ruler... toggles the ruler
- Show Slice Line... toggles showing slice lines
- Show Image Map... toggles the image maps created on the image using the Image Map Tool
- Guidelines and Grid... toggles... well, guess!
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The Workspace Menu
- Panels... toggles each of the panels in the sub-menu
- Panel Manager... toggles the toolbar of the same name (the one that allows you to open or close the EP, Layer Manager, etc)
- Standard / Attribute / Status Toolbars... toggles the toolbar of the same name; handy if you're looking for temporary extra workspace
- Tools... toggles the panel for each tool on or off
- Basic Mode / Standard Mode... don't click Basic if you've customized your toolbars, it will all disappear!
- Reset to Default... to make PI look as it did as it came out of the box, or off the Web
- Options... brings up the dialog boxes where you can customize PI
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The Window Menu
- Cascade... and the next two are different ways of viewing open windows in the workspace
- Arrange Icons... neatly lines up minimized windows at the bottom of the workspace
- Close All... closes all open windows, but PI will ask to save if they haven't been
- Batch Manager... opens the Batch Manager dialog box
- Welcome Screen... in case you miss the Ulead Guy
- Tile with Album... opens PI's Album alongside PI in the configuration you choose
- The remainder of this menu is a list of open files in your workspace
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The Help Menu
- PhotoImpact Help... opens the help department on your computer
- Product Updates on the Web... opens your browser to check for updates and freebies at Ulead
- Smart Download... downloads "free cool stuff"
- Online Registration... connects to Ulead to register your product
- System Properties... shows your own system properties, in regards to PI
- About PhotoImpact... all the good stuff
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