SierraHome Announces Print Artist PhotoExpert Digital Imaging Software

SierraHome today announced the release of Print Artist PhotoExpert , a completely integrated consumer software program for enhancing and sharing photos, and creating more than 700 photo-projects on the computer. A new addition to the popular Print Artist home publishing family, PhotoExpert even includes a $50 coupon towards digital imaging services at Shutterfly.com, the leading online photo processing service.

Photography is one of the most popular hobbies in America, but skill levels and time are limited. PhotoExpert lets amateur and advanced shutter-bugs alike quickly and easily import pictures, reduce red eye, crop and resize, enhance color, add special effects or create photo-projects for friends and family to enjoy.

"We're really now starting to see the beauty of digital photography in helping families all over the globe stay connected. With PhotoExpert, no special hardware is required to start enhancing pictures at home; people can have photos developed right onto disk or CD," said senior producer Tyler McKenzie. "PhotoExpert gives people control over their pictures to make changes or improvements, create reprints at home or email the final project to friends and family."

With PhotoExpert's powerful editing tools, red-eye and overexposed photos no longer warrant a trip to the photo processor. Users will appreciate the variety of editing options, multitude of projects and abilities to fully-customize every photo project.

Features:

• 700+ professionally designed and customizable PhotoExpert templates
• 1,000+ graphics and hundreds of backgrounds, special effects, color schemes and fonts
• $50 free gift certificate for printing services at Shutterfly.com
• Includes enhancement tools for new photos, as well as restoration tools for older photos.
• Editing tools allow users to lighten or darken photos, correct minor imperfections and enhance pictures.
• A handy split-screen allows users to see the before and after affects of lightening, darkening and color enhancement features.
• Users can also rotate, flip, clone, make cutouts or apply a variety of special effects to pictures, including tunnel, prism and watercolor effects.
• Includes Web Studio(tm) Express for simple drag and drop Web page creation and posting.

Designing crafts with digital photos is made easy with the PhotoExpert templates, and extensive library of graphics, backgrounds, special effects, color schemes and fonts. Users simply drop-in any size picture to make truly unique creations, including calendars, scrapbook pages, postcards, awards, greeting cards, certificates, flyers, frames, holiday ornaments, and a variety of other projects. Design unique holiday and seasons greetings cards using photos of family and friends - includes Jewish and Christian holidays, Kwanzaa, Islam's Eid, Japanese New Year and more.

Pictures enhanced in PhotoExpert can easily be imported into Print Artist(tm) projects, Generations(r) family tree charts, Hallmark(r) Card Studio(tm) photo greetings or any other favorite Windows(r) application.

With a free $50 certificate from Shutterfly.com, PhotoExpert users will enjoy convenient, quality photo processing without trudging to their local photo processor or post office. Shutterfly.com offers services for printing, sharing photos online and enhancing photos; the site recently received the prestigious PC Magazine Editors' Choice award for online photo services.

"Ensuring that customers receive the highest quality prints from their digital images is our top priority," said John Brigden, Shutterfly Vice President of Business Development. "We are delighted to deliver our quality prints, convenient services and unique features to PhotoExpert customers. With Shutterfly, users are able to print only the images they like and send their prints directly to themselves, their family and friends throughout the world with a single click of a mouse." More information can be found at www.sierrahome.shutterfly.com.

Price, Availability and System Requirements:
PhotoExpert is available for the estimated street price of $49.95 at local software retailers, online at www.sierrahome.com, or by calling 800-757-7707. The program runs on Pentium(r) 133 or higher processors with 32 MB RAM and 125 MB free hard disk space. PhotoExpert is compatible with any TWAIN device, and supports all common file formats including JPG, GIF, TIF, FPX, PCD, PPF, and BMP.

Source: SierraHome