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10.4 or Higher
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Windows 7
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Windows Vista
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Windows XP
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Installation Requirements
- Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 or MAC OS 10.4 or Higher
- 1 GB memory (4 GBs is recommended)
- 150 MB of hard drive space
- Internet connection to install and use the sharing features
- Screen resolution of at least 1024x768
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Auto Populate
- Create layouts in seconds with the auto populate feature
- Wizard prompts you to add the correct number of images to your project
- Swap photo feature
- Many themes available
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Designing
- Real time designing on workable canvas at all times
- Drag and drop images and graphics onto canvas
- Automatic image resizing that keeps the image proportional
- Each object on the canvas has its own layer
- Layers are not lost after saving, exporting, sharing, or closing an album
- Auto-fit button
- Eye Dropper to select any color on your screen
- Special effects – built in B/W and Sepia options
- Built in Opacity Overlay for image fading
- Adjust saturation – make images black and white or apply any range of saturation to an image
- Add any color toning – perfect for applying a sepia tone to any image
- Change contrast and brightness
- Reset button to bring image back to original state (non destructive editing within Project Spinner)
- Mattes – inside sloppy borders
- Masks – Soft Edges, Shapes, etc...
- Borders – inside and outside stroke lines
- Frames – outside sloppy borders
- Copy Effects
- Aligning objects, photos, shapes or text
- Large selection of Backgrounds, Embellishment and Frames available for your projects
- Transform an image by double clicking the photo
- Move multiple objects together by holding down the ctrl-key
- Move objects with arrows keys or drag to a new location
- Ruler
- Zoom up to 500% on canvas
- Copy/Paste features through menu or keyboard shortcuts
- Delete objects through keyboard delete button
- Customize guides, margins, or gutters to identify safe zones on the canvas for designing purposes
- Guides
- Text tools
- Gradient fill on shapes
- Opacity on all objects
- Easy page navigation
- Right mouse click context menus on layers, templates, pages, all objects on canvas, and image list
- Delete objects or layers using the delete key on the keyboard
- Familiar keyboard shortcuts available
- Ability to edit images in any external application while in Album Spinner
- One click to make a background or an image the background
- Side and Pano view
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Templates
- ALL templates work on ANY album size
- Automatically adjusts templates to reflect the current album size
- Filter templates based on photo count, sides, panos, system, lab or user
- Automatically get new templates
- Customize your own templates
- Themes available
- Template are fully adjustable
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Importing
- Ability to import multiple folders and/or multiple files at the same time from various locations
- Automatically refreshes photos in a project design if adjusted in an external program
- Formats available: JPG, PNG
- Bring in your own Graphics (Backgrounds, Embelishments and Frames) (.png, .jpg)
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Exporting
- Upload to any lab when full version is purchased
- Layers are not lost after exporting
- Export: Entire album, page range or just the cover page
- Formats available: JPG, TIF, PNG
- ICC profiles available
- 96 - 300 dpi range
- Use your own ICC color profile
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Online Sharing
- One button click to share designs with customers
- Web-based viewing with password protected security
- Up-to-the-minute history of comments capabilities
- Customized email communication
- Personal logo embedded into emails
- Add email note
- Customize website to look branded with background and text color with company logo as header
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Organizing Photos
- Programs keeps track of each time a photo is used in your design
- When a photo is used, the program automatically tracks how many times it was used
- Filter for all unused photos
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