Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

RAM: 256MB
Supported file formats: Major RAW formats; 001, BAY, BMP, CLP, CRW, CR2, CUR, DCR,
DCS, DCX, DNG, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, MAC, MRW, MSP,
NEF, ORF, PBM, PCD, PCT, PCX, PEF, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PXR, RAF, RAS,
SCI, SCT, SHG, SRF, SVG (output), TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WBMP, WMF, and X3F
Price level: Approx. $70 for the download or boxed
Address: Corel Corporation, 1600 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1Z 8R7
www.ulead.com/pi/
Note
UpShot
Chapter 10 ■ Image Editors 139
At the time of writing, only the earlier version 12 appears on some regional versions of the
Corel Website, so you might need to visit the address listed in this section to purchase X3.
Vendor: Bellamax
Purpose: Photo-editing package aimed at professional portrait and wedding photographers
Description
UpShot is a photo-editing package aimed at professional portrait and wedding photographers
who want fast results with a minimum of fuss. It has a one-cure-fits-all tool called FastFix that
analyzes the content of a photo and makes specific adjustments based on scene recognition.
Manual fine-tuning includes tools for cropping, straightening, flip/rotate, brightness/contrast,
and sharpening. Retouching includes tools for softening wrinkles, whitening teeth and eyes,
adjusting skin tone, cloning, under-eye circle removal, stray hair zapper, and so on.
UpShot has facilities for direct upload to Flickr, ImageShack, Shutterfly, SmugMug,
Snapfish, Wal-Mart, and Webshots. From the outset it has been backed up with plenty
of online tutorials and a user forum.
Comments
Described as “an excellent tool in the making” by one professional photographer,
UpShot takes a sensible approach to photo editing by offering wedding pros a restricted
set of useful tools rather than a bloated set of “might-come-in-useful” tools. If you want
to use any of the uploading facilities or view the tutorials, as always a high-speed Internet
connection is essential.
Version: UpShot1.0 (2008)
OS: Windows 2000 and XP
RAM: 512MB (1GB recommended)