
              Welcome to PhotoImpact Album 3.0 Trial Version

This ReadMe First document provides basic information about PhotoImpact
Album 3. If you have any questions about how to use this product, please
refer first to the program's online help. Also, visit the PhotoImpact
Album and Ulead Web Utilities pages on our web site
(http://www.ulead.com/products/framens.htm) for FAQ updates, tips and
techniques, special promotions, free software, and other useful
information.


Table of contents

1.      How to install this program?
2.	System requirements
3.	What is PhotoImpact Album?
4.	Trial period information
5.	Purchasing the retail version of PhotoImpact Album 
6.	Technical support
7.	Providing feedback and suggestions
8.	What is Ulead PhotoImpact web image editor?
9.	Special Ulead PhotoImpact upgrade offer
10.	Distribution program


1. How to install this program?

Run Piabm30t.exe directly to install PhotoImpact Album 3.0 Trial
Version. 


2. System requirements

.       Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or higher
.       486-DX2/DX4 or Pentium-compatible systems
.       8MB RAM (16MB recommended)
.       4MB available hard drive space for program files
.       Windows-compatible pointing device
.       True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor (recommended)


3. What is PhotoImpact Album?

PhotoImpact Album is a web content browsing and management program for
creating visual thumbnail databases that can be browsed, sorted and
managed by various criteria. PhotoImpact Album includes the following
major features:
.       Save customizable information with thumbnails for image or
        multimedia clips.
.       Support cataloging of more than 30+ image file formats plus AVI,
        QuickTime, FLI, FLC, WAV, VOC multimedia file formats and other
        application linked files.
.       Support multimedia content browsing and management.
.       Vertical and horizontal Compact Mode display for easy alignment
        of PhotoImpact Album with other applications.
.       Automatically updates a folder's contents.
.       Powerful search and sort tools to quickly locate files.
.       Support for unlimited albums in a workspace at one time.
.       Up to 65,535 thumbnail clips in a single album.
.       Adjustable thumbnail sizes from 32 x 32 to 512 x 512 pixels.
.       Concurrently share albums among a user workgroup.
.       Annotate thumbnails with text, voice, or multimedia files.
.       Split windows to view multiple album contents.
.       Extensive management capabilities: relink, backup, restore,
        convert and more.
.       Data import and export.
.       PhotoImpact Viewer displays all popular image files, including
        gif animation images.

For more information about PhotoImpact Album and how to use it, refer to
the online help. It can be viewed by clicking the help button that
appears in most of the program's dialog boxes, from the Help menu, or by
clicking the Help document icon from Windows Explorer.


4. Trial period information

PhotoImpact Album Trial version is distributed free-of-charge to all
users. This software installs for FREE trial use for a period of 15 days
from the date of installation.


5. Purchasing the retail version of PhotoImpact Album

You may purchase a retail Full version of PhotoImpact Album that is very
similar to (or better than) the Trial version. The retail version is not
time restricted and will never expire. Details about where and how to
purchase this product can be found on the Ulead web site Web Utility
page (http://www.ulead.com/products/framens.htm).

You can order a copy of the retail version of PhotoImpact Album directly
from Ulead Systems. In the USA or Canada, please contact:
        Tel. #: 1-800-858-5323 (for order only)
        Fax. #: (310) 523-9399 

For International customers, please contact:
        Tel. #: +886 2 764-8599 ext. 208 
        Fax. #: +886 2 764-9599 


6. Technical support

For Trial version users, if you have any questions, we encourage you to
read the PhotoImpact Album pages on our web site. We offer no technical
support at this moment for the Trial version of PhotoImpact Album. If
you discover a bug in the program, please send your report to
support@ulead.com.tw. Necessary changes will be made and the FAQ page
will be updated. We suggest you check our web site often.

Technical support for the purchased retail Full version is available via
our web site (www.ulead.com or www.ulead.com.tw), email
(support@ulead.com.tw), fax, or through our support centers around the
world. Be sure to have your PhotoImpact Album Technical Support ID
(displayed in the program's About box) ready or include it in your email
or fax.


7. Providing feedback and suggestions

Your comments and suggestions to improve our software are most welcome.
Please send them to webutility@ulead.com.tw. Thank you for your time and
support.


8. What is Ulead PhotoImpact web image editor?

GETTING ON THE WEB has become a top priority for individuals, groups and
companies everywhere. And when you say web, you mean graphics and images.
To meet the special challenges of web imaging, Ulead PhotoImpact now
brings you WebExtensions, a comprehensive set of productivity tools to
make imaging for the web as convenient, fast and easy as creating images
for all your other documents. PhotoImpact with WebExtensions is the
perfect companion for Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe PageMill and Netscape
Navigator Gold.

Although very powerful, PhotoImpact Album is only a small part of the
complete PhotoImpact technology. The full version of PhotoImpact
includes more powerful object based image editing along with many other
powerful tools, such as PhotoImpact Screen Capture, PhotoImpact Explorer
and PhotoImpact CD Browser, to make your work easier. If you like this
product, you owe it to yourself to check out the full version.
(http://www.ulead.com/webex/we.htm)

PhotoImpact GIF/JPEG SmartSaver, PhotoImpact GIF Animator, WebExtensions
for Photoshop, PhotoImpact Album and PhotoImpact Screen Capture are just
parts of the PhotoImpact and WebExtensions technology developed for
Ulead PhotoImpact with WebExtensions - the ultimate web imaging tool. If
you have already purchased Ulead PhotoImpact with WebExtensions package,
you already got many of these web utilities or technologies. Just don't
forget to come back often to download the latest update of PhotoImpact
SmartSaver and GIF Animator. All 1.x Trial versions of SmartSaver and
GIF Animator will be installed as a permanent extension to your existing
PhotoImpact. So, many Web utilities are completely free to existing Ulead
PhotoImpact users.


9. Special Ulead PhotoImpact upgrade offer

If you are a PhotoImpact Album Full version owner but not yet an Ulead
PhotoImpact user, we offer you a very special limited time offer. You
can purchase Ulead PhotoImpact with WebExtensions using a special US$75
price, directly from Ulead Systems, Inc. To place a PhotoImpact upgrade
order, please call 1-800-858-5323. Make sure you know your PhotoImpact
Album Technical Support ID (displayed in the plug-in module's About box)
when you call. Alternatively, you can order by fax at 1-310-523-9399 or
send email info@ulead.com. Outside the USA, please contact the Ulead
Upgrade Center nearest you for details and local pricing. For further
details, please visit the special upgrade web page at
http://www.ulead.com/products/wupgrade.htm.


10. Distribution program

If you would like to distribute PhotoImpact Album or other Ulead Web
Utility products, please contact webutility@ulead.com.tw.


Copyright 1996, Ulead Systems, Inc.

All rights reserved. Ulead is a registered trademark and Ulead
PhotoImpact is a trademark of Ulead Systems. Some of the product names
used are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders
and are used for identification purposes only.
