Photo Express 2.0 Readme - June 1998

Introduction

Registration

System requirements

Uninstalling Photo Express 2.0

Windows taskbar issues

E-mail clients and MAPI-compliant

Sending or printing images via FAX

Insufficient memory problems

Using a tablet with the Crayon painting tool

Folders and albums

Windows NT 3.51 without Windows 95 style GUI

Using Kai's Power Tools and other Adobe Photoshop plug-in filters

Customizing file format support

Shadows and image objects in other programs

Printer out of memory errors

Contacting Ulead Systems


Introduction

Welcome to Photo Express 2.0, the new cool tool for expressing your creativity with pictures of your family and friends! Photo Express is the ultimate tool for adding that extra spark of life to your photos - it gives you the power to take ordinary, everyday pictures and turn them into high-quality works of art. With its guided workflow and intuitive interface, you'll be cranking out personalized birthday cards, calendars, and posters in no time at all!


Registration

Please complete your registration card and mail it today, or use the online registration software provided with Photo Express to register your copy instantly. You must register to receive technical support and important product update information. Registration also allows you to take advantage of special promotions and discounts on other Ulead Systems software.


System requirements

Pentium class PC or above

Windows 95/98 or Windows NT 4.0

16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)

105 MB of available hard disk space

CD-ROM drive

Windows compatible pointing device and display (e.g. a mouse and a monitor)

Desktop Display Area: 800x600 or higher (800x600 or 1024x768 recommended)

Display Color Type: HiColor(15/16 bit) or True Color(24 bit)

Optional components

The following are compatible but optional components that are supported by Photo Express and enhance digital image editing.

TWAIN compliant input device (e.g. a scanner)

Microsoft compatible frame grabber device (e.g. a capture card)

WinTab compatible pressure-sensitive graphics tablet

Windows compatible output device  (e.g. a printer)

16 and 32-bit Adobe PhotoShop compatible Plug-ins


Uninstalling Photo Express 2.0

Photo Express 2.0 has a complete uninstall utility. To ensure proper behavior, do not install any other Ulead 32-bit programs in the same folder, as the uninstall utility may accidentally delete essential files for these other programs.


Windows taskbar issues

It's recommended that you select the Auto Hide option for the Windows taskbar. This prevents the taskbar from overlapping and obscuring the bottom part of the Photo Express window.


E-mail clients and MAPI-compliant

Photo Express lets you take advantage of your e-mail software to send images or cards via the MAPI-compliant mailing mechanism. MAPI is simply a standard used by many e-mail programs to communicate with your computer and your Internet service provider. If the mail client you have is not set as a MAPI-compliant mail client, you may see Microsoft Exchange launched instead. If this is your scenario and the mail client you use is one of the following, you can follow the instructions described in the program e-mail function to set your mail client to be MAPI-compliant.

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook Express

Netscape Messenger

QUALCOMM Eudora


Sending or printing images via FAX

Images can be faxed directly from within Photo Express by integrating with Microsoft Fax services. Microsoft Fax is included with Window 95 and can be installed from the Windows 95 CD. When setting up MS Fax, please choose the Typical install settings.

Note: Windows NT does not support Microsoft Fax and therefore you cannot use this function in that environment.


Insufficient memory problems

Because image editing requires a lot of computer memory, sometimes Windows will display an insufficient memory error message. You may be able to solve this problem by closing any other programs you may have running. It might also help to make sure your Windows virtual memory (swap file) setting on your hard disk is large enough, and that there is enough free space on the hard drive that contains the virtual memory. For more information, see Windows help (Go to the Index and type "virtual memory").


Using a tablet with the Crayon painting tool

Many paint tools take advantage of the pressure sensitive features of a pen tablet when painting on an image. When using a tablet with the Crayon function of either Paint: Brush or Paint: Clone, your computer needs to make many calculations for each stroke. On slower machines, the stroke may lag behind quick hand motions with the pen. To rectify this situation, change the tablet options on the Options panel, and modify the Generation Quality defined in Preferences dialog box. If best quality is chosen, it will take more time to make each stroke; the fair quality will shorten this time.


Windows NT 3.51 without Windows 95 style GUI

Photo Express 2.0 is designed to take full advantage of the 32-bit capabilities of Windows 95 and Windows NT. There are, however, some inherent differences between the User Interface of Windows 95 and some configurations of Windows NT, and Photo Express will necessarily behave differently in these situations.

1.	Photo Express 2.0 does not support the one plane four bits display mode,  and therefore will not work in 16-color low resolution display mode in Windows NT.  This means you cannot run Photo Express 2.0 in Windows NT's standard VGA mode. There may be other display modes that are affected by this limitation.

2.	Windows NT does not automatically resize combo boxes down if their contents do not fill the predefined size.

3.	You cannot perform drag-and-drop operations to the Windows NT desktop unless the Windows 95 program shell is installed.

4.	Windows NT's common Open and Save dialog boxes are the same as those in Windows 3.1 instead of Windows 95 style.

5.	Windows NT's read-only edit control always appears with a border.

6.	Because Windows NT does not support the flat thunk which is supported in Windows 95, some Photo Express functions in Windows NT are disabled, including support for all 16-bit APS (Adobe Photoshop) compatible plug-in modules, such as Kai's Power Tools 2.0.[Translation: Not all 16-bit (older) applications run correctly on Windows NT's 32-bit system, but the "flat thunk" of Windows 95 handles this quite nicely!]


Using Kai's Power Tools and other Adobe Photoshop plug-in filters

Photo Express supports Kai's Power Tools and other 16/32-bit Adobe Photoshop (APS) compliant plug-in effect filters under Windows 95. By performing the installation procedure listed below, you can use these third party, special effect filters in Photo Express 2.0.

1.	Install the APS plug-in filters according to their accompanying documentation.

2.	Once the APS plug-in filters are properly installed, go to the Photo Express Preferences dialog box. Switch to the Plug-ins tab and add the folder names where the plug-ins are installed.

3.	An additional Photo menu appears in the menu bar of Photo Express when editing an image in Photo mode. Your Plug-ins will appear on this menu.


Customizing file format support

Photo Express 2.0 employs an open file format architecture to support file reading and writing operations. Additional File Input Output (FIO) modules can be added to the FIO folder to enable reading new file formats. This version of Photo Express comes with over thirty modules which are placed in the FIO folder under the program folder.


Shadows and image objects in other programs

Ulead Template files (*.TPL) can be read by iPhoto Express 1.0. When an image object and its coupled shadow is saved in  a *.TPL file in Photo Express 2, the offset and soft edge may appear a little different in the earlier version, iPhoto Express. In some rare cases Photo Express 2 may fail to recover the shadow and object completely after modification in these applications.


Printer out of memory errors

If you are printing a very large file to a printer, you might be prompted with a message saying out of memory. One of the causes is the printer you're using does not have enough built-in memory to print such large files. If you have just upgraded the memory, please check the printer manual and manufacturer.


Folders and albums

When an album is created, you have to specify the folder to store the images or templates whose thumbnails will be inserted into this album. When an album or individual thumbnails are deleted, the source images will not be affected. Hence, if you want to delete these as well, you must delete them manually using Windows Explorer.


Contacting Ulead Systems
  United States	  Germany
  Japan	  International

+1 310 523 9393

+1 310 523 9399

Ulead Systems, Inc.
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info@ulead.com

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  United States	  Germany
  Japan	  International

 +49 531 220 7920

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Ulead Systems GmbH
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38102 Braunschweig
Germany

info@ulead.de

http://www.ulead.de


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  United States	  Germany
  Japan	  International

 81-3-5491 5661

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Tokyo 158-0097
Japan

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  United States	  Germany
  Japan	  International

+886 2 2764 8599

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Ulead Systems, Inc.
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