MediaPlus 1 is included as part of Harvard Graphics Pro Presentations 3 and Advanced Presentations 3 MediaPlus is Serif's Media & Photo Management superstar. With a raft of fantastic features enabling you to get the best from all your digital photos, graphics, sound and video files, it's the program that PC users everywhere have been waiting for! Whether you're looking for a better way to browse and manage your digital photos, a simple route to organizing all your clipart, sound and video files, or the quickest and easiest way to create fantastic online albums, slideshows and screensavers, then MediaPlus is for you!

Not only will MediaPlus help you to catalog and organize the media files you already have-the efficiency boost will bring added enjoyment as you build up your collection. Album thumbnails arranged in windows mean you can browse your holdings visually, with instant preview and slideshow capabilities. A bit of extra time spent annotating media files with comments or keywords will allow MediaPlus to search and retrieve exactly the content you need, on demand. Or put MediaPlus to work as your electronic prospector, mining the nearly infinite resources of the World Wide Web for files that meet your criteria. And produce your own galleries for Web or disk-based presentation with a few clicks of the mouse.

Features

Powerful Browsing
MediaPlus' easy-to-use, Explorer like interface makes it a snap to find exactly the photos, clipart, sounds or video files you are looking for. No more endless searching through folders searching for that image, with MediaPlus' automatic thumbnail views, you'll find what you're looking for in seconds!

MediaPlus provides customizable thumbnail views of all the photos & clipart on your PC and even supports sound & video files, allowing you to instantly preview your music & movies. Plus, the powerful integrated search facility means that you'll be able to find exactly the file you want, every time!

Fantastic Albums
Once you've found the photos, sounds or videos you want, MediaPlus makes it easy to transform them into outstanding themed albums, with simple "drag 'n' drop." Create albums of holiday photos, family get-togethers, wedding snaps - the possibilities are limitless! Even include sound & videos to add extra impact to your albums.

Amazing MediaPlus allows you to organize your files into albums any way you choose - by theme, type, date, or just how you think looks best - it's up to you! It really has never been easier to manage all your media files and MediaPlus does much more than just organizing your files, it actually helps you to get the most from them too!

Amazing Slideshows
With MediaPlus, it's a snap to turn your digital photos into stunning slideshows. Wow your friends, family and colleagues with outstanding on-screen presentations of all your favorite pictures, no experience required!

MediaPlus provides all the controls you need to ensure that your slideshow is entertaining, innovative and fun to watch. With incredible built-in transition effects and the ability to add your own choice of background music, yawn-inducing slideshows are a thing of the past!

Online Albums
It's never been easier to share your photo albums with friends and family around the corner or around the world than with MediaPlus' fantastic online albums. In just a few clicks, you can publish your favorite photo albums to the Internet.

MediaPlus lets you choose from a wide range of ready-made Web page designs for your online photos and enables you to fully customize the look and feel of all your online albums. Plus, with integrated uploading, you can publish your album right within MediaPlus, no need to learn a complicated separate FTP program!

Great Printed Albums
As well as helping you to organize your pictures into themed albums and publish them to the Internet, MediaPlus also enables you to print your albums on your desktop printer, meaning all your favorites photos can be stored for posterity, or given as gifts to friends and family.

With a wide variety of preset printing styles and a full range of customizable controls, you can ensure that you get the very best printed results from your favorite albums. Print thumbnail versions of your images as a visual reference, or select from the larger size options - as always with MediaPlus, the possibilities are infinite!

Instant Downloading
With MediaPlus, you're not limited to working with the files already on your computer - its amazing integrated download manager will provide you with a virtually inexhaustible supply of photos, sounds & videos from the Internet. Just specify which site to download from & MediaPlus will do the rest!

A full range of download options means MediaPlus will download only the files you want from your favorite sites. MediaPlus can even "spider" from your chosen site, reading the links on that site & downloading similar images from related pages. With MediaPlus you can build up a great collection of themed images more easily than ever!

Image Capture
Capture directly from your digital camera, scanner, WebCam or any other TWAIN-compliant source. Unlike the software supplied with most cameras & scanners, which often has few advanced features, MediaPlus' options are virtually unbounded!

Once you've captured the image you want, you can use MediaPlus to organize your photos, create albums, slideshows, screensavers, publish to the Web, the choice is yours and the possibilities are endless. It's never been as easy, or as much fun to get the most from your digital images!

Stunning Screensavers
If you find the screensavers that are supplied with Windows are boring or limited, or if you want to create truly impressive custom screensavers then MediaPlus is exactly what you've been looking for. Now there's no need to buy or learn a separate program to create the screensaver you want - MediaPlus will do it for you!

MediaPlus instantly creates fantastic mini-movies from your albums, so there's no more watching "stars" or "flying windows", instead your screensaver can be comprised of your own favorite photos! Plus, there's a great range of options and effects so you can create a fun and impressive screensaver in seconds!

Visit the Serif website for further information on MediaPlus 1

System Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• Windows 98, 98SE, ME, Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 3) or 2000, compatible with Windows XP in single user mode
• IBM compatible 486 processor or higher
• Minimum 8MB recommended, 16 MB RAM for Windows 95, Windows 98, 12 MB for NT 4.0
• 14-38 MB available hard disk space (standard installation 24 MB)
• VGA 256 colors minimum - SVGA display is recommended
• CD-ROM drive
• Mouse or other Microsoft compatible pointing device