Ulead PhotoImpact 8.0 XL

by Ulead

Product Details

• ASIN: B0000E2Y6X
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 20, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,995 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Ulead PhotoImpact XL is innovative image editing software for digital photography, graphic design, and Web page creation. It lets digital photographers edit, manage, and share digital photos. At the same time, it offers Web and graphic designers powerful tools without a high learning curve. With version XL, PhotoImpact provides even more digital photography tools, filters and effects, as well as content and learning resources. It's everything you need to produce professional results quickly and easily.

Includes Ulead GIF Animator 5.0

Bonus Value:

Box version includes a 45-minute video tutorial, Hemera Photo Objects (ready to use royalty-free images and objects), a selection of plug-ins from the popular Eye Candy suite from Alien Skin, and COOL 360 Panorama software.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of potential, but very buggy and a RAM hog, September 23, 2004

By 

Lorac (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ulead PhotoImpact 8.0 XL (CD-ROM)

I downloaded the 30-day trial version of this software because of the new HDR (high dynamic range) feature. When I found this feature would not work ( all functions on the screen were grayed out and not available for selecting) I figured it was just disabled in the trial version. I installed the trial software on another computer and the HDR functionality worked! I then installed it on a 3rd computer, where it did not work, and on a 4th computer where it was successful. During the 4 installs no errors of any kind were encountered. Although I did get one short response to my first email to Ulead support subsequent Emails to Ulead asking about this problem were not returned because they don't support trial software. The first email response confirmed that the trial software is "fully functioning" and they also said "consider that it is not compatible with your system...". Well, all 4 of the computers I put it on are new, comparable Dell 3.4 Ghz machines running Windows XP and there seems to be no rhyme or reason for 2 of them to work and 2 to fail. Since it doesn't work on my OWN computer I'm not willing to buy it (once you've downloaded the trial software all you do to purchase is send the $$ and activate the license key on your already installed software).

From what I've read on the public Ulead web forums I am not the first one to experience this problem, and the others who did were not able to get help or find a solution either. I have heard from other users that Ulead tech support is not that great, so if the trial software doesn't work as expected don't expect any resolution once you spend your money for a registered version.

If you don't want to take advantage of the newest feature, the HDR functionality, then maybe this is not a concern for you but if this feature doesn't work 2 out of 4 times, what else might be wrong with this software? I will say that compared to other photo editing software I use such as PSP 8 and PSE 2 this one takes a TON more of RAM, making it perform very S-L-O-W-L-Y, even on a 3.4 Ghz P4 with 1GB of DDR RAM. Still, if the HDR feature worked I would probably buy it and just take a walk when I was waiting for the program to respond ( BTW, on the 2 computers where the HDR feature worked you would wait upwards of 15 minutes for it to finish altering a 3 MP jpeg photo).

Very disappointing. If Ulead just posted the solution to the problem on their website where trial users could see it (if there is a solution) that would be all that is needed to let people successfully evaluate this product. Obviously they don't read or don't care about the product problems posted on their own web forums.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PhotoImpact XL rocks!, December 29, 2003

By 

Maureen E. Williamson (San Jacinto, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ulead PhotoImpact 8.0 XL (CD-ROM)

I agree with the above reviewer. This is an excellent graphics tool! My ONLY advice to potential customers would be to purchase the boxed version, not the download (even though its delivery is immediate.)

I am buying a new computer and will now have to re-purchase the PIXL program and I could have avoided the re-purchase had I been patient enough to wait on the boxed version's delivery by post. Ulead built a real keeper in this product! I use it for nearly all of my commercial graphics clients and there are on-line classes available, as well, which I HIGHLY recommend. Just a hint in the right direction (not an advertisement, but this is my instructor), look up Stephanie's Tutorials in your search engine for the best instruction I've come across. She also holds 6 week on-line classes.

Check some of PhotoImpact's results on my own website, if you want to see some of the things you can do with this package:
www.ofaolaingraphicdesigns.com

Needless to say, I LOVE this package!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 100 Stars For This Product!.., November 30, 2003

By 

usberto "usberto" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ulead PhotoImpact 8.0 XL (CD-ROM)

If you love Adobe PhotoShop you will love even more PhotoImpact, I have both and I create all my work on PhotoImpact and I use PhotoShop for little retouching sometimes, this program is no expensive and do all the same work as PhotoShop and others programs and even better is fast, easy to manage, a very understandable environment. This is a Great Ulead product and the price is even better. I give an Oscar, a Grammy and a Gold Dove to this Program of year.