PhotoDub™ integrates image editing, voice dubbing, and automatic e-mail transfer of your digital images in one application. You do not need to switch from application to application to send a picture with voice. Key features are

• It has all the standard editing features, plus voice dubbing and automatic e-mail transfer.
• It is designed, not only for advanced editing with all the standard editing features, but also for editing by the occasional users. In other words, it has a very user friendly interface. You can download a trial version to see how easy it is to work with PhotoDub™.
• PhotoDub™ interface is designed with a “friendly” layout so that at any stage in your work, you always know where you are and where the commands are. You do not have to look for your commands or find out the tasks performed by each command. You can find what they do and how they do it by point and click.

Whether you use PhotoDub™ once a day or once a month, you can get right to work without having to read the instructions again.
Please download a Trial Version. We know you will be amazed what PhotoDub™ can do and how easily you can dub a picture and send by e-mail, in a matter of few minutes.

The main interface has four regions. On top, A shows where you are in your work flow. On the left, B exhibits all the subcommands available to you at any stage of your workflow with brief explanations on how to use the subcommands. Clicking on ? you will see more detail explanations. On the right, C is the work space where you will see the outputs of your subcommands or the picture you are working on. Below, D shows the thumbnail views of your favorite pictures.

The dubbed picture file with the extension, VAI, can only be played with the standalone player, PhotoDub™ Player, which is distributed free of charge.

       Search - find automatically all the jpg and bmp images on your hard drive and exhibit the
                      Find Results in Region C.
       Browse - Using the Window Explorer, find the images you would like to work on and exhibit the
                      Find Results in Region C.
       Open - Using the Standard Open Dialogue, find the images you would like to work on and exhibit
                      picture in Region C.

   Edit Picture

       Zoom In/Out - enlarge or shrink image in Region C.
       Brightness Adjustment - increase or decrease brightness.
       Contrast Adjustment - increase or decrease contrast.
       Red Eye Removal - remove red color in selected area.
       Trim - trim to standard print picture dimensions (e.g. 4”x6”, 5”x7”…) or custom dimensions.
       Enhance - automatically set contrast and brightness to improve piture quality.
       Black-White - convert a color picture to a black and white picture.

   Record Voice

   Standard voice recording features are available: record, stop, rewind, pause and play.

   Edit Voice

    This is the unique feature of PhotoDub™. It has its own voice editor to allow you to dub a picture       with your voice and edit your recorded voice as described below:

       Select - select the section of the sound profile to be edited.
       Select All - select the whole recording.
       Delete Selected - delete selected section. This can be used to remove unwanted sections of
                                    the recording.
       Insert Silence - insert a silent region in the recording. This will allow you to re-record the sound 
                                 again.
       Replace Selected with Silence – replace the selected region with silent region. This will allow                                                              you to re-record the sound again in the replaced segment.
       Normalize - adjust the volume level to the average level of the recording to minimize volume
                           variations during playback.
       Echo - apply an echo effect to the selected region.
       Fade In/Out - increase or decrease the volume of the selected region with time.

   Combine

   During this step, the picture and the recorded voice are combined.You have the choice to select the
   qualities of the sound and the picture you would like to have in the combined file, called VAI file.
   Qualities of both voice and picture affect the size of the VAI file, which in turn affects the transmission
   time of the file.

   Send/Save

   For sending, the PhotoDub™ mail client will appear to allow you to enter the addresses of the
   recipient of the VAI file. You have a choice of sending the VAI file with or without the PhotoDub™
   Player. The Player is also available in a prepackaged Zip file to pass FireWall restrictions. You have
   to configure your Mail Client with your ISP mail account settings in order to send. You can also
   save the VAI/Player file and send it as attachment with your own mail client.

System Requirements

Computer / Processor	Computer with Pentium 133 megahertz (MHz); Pentium II 400 MHz or higher processor recommended.
Operating System	Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP or later.
Memory	32 MB of RAM; 128 MB of RAM recommended.
Hard Disk	3 MB for software installation. 10 MB for Favorites Folder. 20 MB for Favorites Folder recommended.
Display	Super VGA (800x600) or higher monitor with 256 colors (65536 colors recommeded).
Peripherals	16 bit Sound Card, microphone and speakers.

About Download and the Trial Version

The registered and the trial version of PhotoDub™ are the same. With the trial version, you are allowed to use PhotoDub™ for 14 days. Each of the dubbed pictures is identified by the name of the person who creates the dubbed picture as shown below: