Photolightning is the easiest, fastest digital camera software available. It's the best way to print, email, and enhance your digital photos.At last there's easy-to-use digital camera software for both home and business users. Photolightning is so simple that even beginners can make great photo prints, send emails without attachments, create slide shows, and make enhancements to a set of 24 photos in five minutes or less. We're confident that it's the easiest digital camera software you'll ever use.
Ease of Use:
The program is organized into three steps: PreviewLabelPrint, Email & ShareAlong the way you can edit the photos. It's a simple process with few features.
Editing:Like other photo editing programs, you may edit in two modes: automatic (One click fix) or full edit. Photolightning does a good job translating editing language into conversational corrections. You’ll see fix backlighting, add/reduce flash, fix out of focus, and make gray skies blue. However, the edits are not always what you anticipated. Changing a gray sky to blue resulted in an entirely blue toned photograph.
Sharing:Choose to share your photos by printing on your printer, emailing, or creating a slide show for email and web. Photolightning will also format photos for Microsoft Office applications, eBay and FlipAlbum.
Want to send your photos out for printing or posting? One click connections to Shutterfly, Snapfish, Walmart PhotoCenter, Kodak EasyShare Gallery, Walgreens, ez prints, Blogger, Fotolog.net and TextAmerica.
With Photolightning you can share your photos through email, print, or on the web. There are some options if you choose to email. You can choose to send it as an attachment or in the body. You can choose to compress images or zip them up.
Output Capabilities:There is only one format to save your photo in-Jpg. There aren't even any options for customizing the compression. One good feature is that you can archive your photos to a CD or copy them back onto a digital camera.
Organizing:The organizing capabilities are limited. You can view thumbnails of any image that you copy from a digital camera or browse from you hard drive or other device. You can also change the file names and add captions. I can't see why adding captions would be beneficial however, There is no way to search or sort your photos.
Help/Support:The built-in help is probably sufficient. You can search by topics or keywords or browse the table of contents. There are no screenshots; just text. Online there are a few FAQs but no tutorial or demo. They also provide an email address but no phone number for technical support.
Summary:Photolightning is easy, but the editing results are disappointing. There are better choices at this price point on TopTenREVIEWS’ side-by-side comparison chart.
How photolightning works
Photolightning is the easiest photo software you'll ever use. Just plug your digital camera into your computer to preview your photos. From there you can do whatever you like -- rename them, edit them, print them, email them, and much more.
It's really as easy as 1-2-3:
Step 1: Plug your digital camera into your computer to preview your photos
Step 2: Rename your photos, give them captions, or touch them up
Step 3: Print, email, and share your photos
Step 1
Plug your camera into your computer to preview your photos or work with photos that you've already saved.Quickly download photos from your digital camera...
Photo software should be easy to use, and that's how we designed Photolightning. Just plug your camera or memory card into your computer. Photolightning automatically detects it and copies the photos to your hard drive. If your camera uses floppy disks or CD's, Photolightning can copy and save those photos to your computer too.
Choose from a variety of preset folder-naming schemes that make it easy to find your photographs, or create your own each name time.
Photolightning is smart enough to never download any photos twice.
...Or work with photos you have already
saved.
Lightning-quick photo browser / thumbnail viewer locates any photo in seconds.
Unique Photo History view lets you see all of the photos on your disk in chronological order - as if they were all in one folder.
Preview your photos
Determine which photos to discard and which ones to keep in minutes:
Large preview area that automatically expands to fit to your computer's screen size.
Mark photos you wish to print, email, or share while previewing them.
Keyboard shortcuts make the preview process even faster.
Step 2
Optionally rename your photos, give them captions,
or touch them up.Before Fix Backlighting
After Fix Backlighting
Photoligtning has optional functions to adjust/enhance those photos that need a bit of help (photo editing):
Fix Redeye (see more on red eye reduction)
Crop photos both freehand and fixed aspect ratio: 3.5 x 5, 4 x 6,
5 x 7, 8 x 10
Fix backlit photos
Brighten dark photos with unique Add Flash feature.
Darken light photos with unique Reduce Flash feature.
Use auto-levels and auto-contrast identical to Adobe Photoshop®*
Boost colors to enhance sky/water and greens/nature
Sharpen photo: (faces and objects)
Fix out of focus pictures
Convert to black and white, sepia
Apply Paint Effects including Impressionist, Expressionist, and Colorist Wash
Make gray skies blue with our special effect designed just for this purpose.
For advanced users, Photolightning includes a many popular advanced editing features such as brightness/contrast, hue, saturation, soft focus, unsharp mask, lighting adjustments, color temperature, graduated tint, soft focus, focal black & white, motion blur, levels, and many more
Perform above adjustments & enhancements while preserving the sort order of your photo set
With Photolightning's drawing/annotation tools, you can quickly and easily add notes and drawings to your photos. You can even add other images to create a collage or scrapbook page. Business users, click here to learn more. Home users, click here.
Add text, lines, arrows, rectangles/ squares, ellipses/circles, polygons, and arcs.
Add other photos or portions of photos.
Photolightning is the fastest way to add captions to your photos and change filenames
Add multiple captions and change multiple filenames without ever taking your hands off of the keyboard.
Autorepeat caption features allows you to add similar captions with the touch of a single key
Step 3
Print, email, and share your photosNow that you have selected the photos you want to work with, printing, emailing, and sharing is only a step away (digital photo printing).
Make perfect prints on your home/office printer
Photolightning's intelligent print placement automatically rotates and sizes your photos to create perfect wallet, 3.5x 5, 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10 prints every time on on 8.5" x 11", A4, specialty sized, or micro-perforated paper with no hassles. See more about photo printing.
Photolightning contains templates for almost every popular specialty sized or micro-perforated paper available today including Avery, Canon, Epson, Great White, Hewlett Packard, Jet Direct, Kodak, Olympus, Sony, and Staples
Print complete album pages including captions with just one click.
Use Photolightning's print preview to ensure you get perfect output every time.
Use professional photofinishers to make prints locally or online
If you take your camera or memory card to your local photofinisher (drugstore, etc.) to make prints, Photolightning can save you time by copying only those images you have selected (with quantities) back to your camera/memory card. When you get to the store, simply put your memory card into the machine and say "print all!"
Upload photos to your favorite online photo processor including Shutterfly, Snapfish, Kodak EasyShare, Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and ez prints. Stay tuned as other choices will be added shortly.
Email your photos with just two clicks.
Photolightning makes it easy for your friends and family to see your photos when you email them.
Reduces almost any photo, regardless of original size, to approximately 50KB for fast emailing
Automatically places your photo into the body of the email so that recipients can immediately see it without struggling with attachments. (Requires Outlook or Outlook Express to send.)
See more.
Add included graphical backgrounds for birthdays, holidays and more. Click here to see samples.
Works with all popular email clients including Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo, Hotmail, and AOL for both sending and receiving photos
Also includes options for attaching files and sending Zip archives of your photos
Create beautiful HTML slideshows in seconds.
Photolightning makes it easy to create great looking photo slide shows in seconds
Photolightning creates 3-view slideshows including full screen, filmstrip view and a thumbnail view.
Turn views on and off or re-order them.
Change backgrounds, colors, transitions, timing, and add sound.
See an actual slideshow created with Photolightning
Batch ProcessingEasily resize, rename, add captions/watermarks, change format, and change timestamp with just two clicks using Photolightning's Batch Processing functions
EBAY SELLERS — sell more and save time by optimizing the size and quality of your photos before posting on eBay auctions
Reduce photos as you insert them into Word or PowerPoint to create smaller documents for faster emailing and sharing. Click here to learn more
Photolightning has partnered with E-Book Systems to allow you to quickly create interactive 3D page flipping albums. Simply select the photos you want to put into the FlipAlbum™ software (purchased separately), press a button, and your FlipAlbum is created.
CD/DVD burningHave confidence to know that your precious photo memories have been safely preserved.
Incremental backup makes it easy to never again wonder which photos have been backed up and which ones have not.
Burns straight from Photolightning digital camera software on Win 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista. No additional software required.
Creates a thumbnail index page on your CD/DVD so you can quickly find your photos. Click here to learn more.
Size: 7.5 MB
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