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. Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an

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assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library. PhotoImpact can also use photoshop filters in .8bf format. PhotoImpact has vast support for

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s but also uses its own UFO and UFP file format which support all the aforementioned features. The last version of PhotoImpact was X3/13. In December 2006

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acquired Ulead Systems. Corel continued to market PhotoImpact until September 2009 when they discontinued the product, focusing on the competing product

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. Though development has been halted, the product is still being sold by Corel. A version of PhotoImpact licensed as PhotoImpact Pro is sold by ''Nova Development''. It is a rebranded version of PhotoImpact with no program differences. However, while the Ulead and Corel specs omit

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, the Nova specs in 2014 mention that Windows 7 and

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are supported. For users, there are various help forums and tutorial banks available, both factory and non-factory.

Release history

References

External links

*Corel PhotoImpact page
X3
*Nova Development PhotoImpact pages
Pro 13
*Ulead PhotoImpact page:
VK.COM Group
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