Captures videos and pictures from the content filmed by your webcam. Adds filters, effects, and clip-art to recorded videos as well as to live streams.
CyberLink YouCam helps you make the most of your laptop webcam and your tablet camera by building an all-in-one live photo and video studio around them. From capturing video and taking snapshots to editing and enhancing them using any of the various sets of filters, effects, clip-arts, etc.; from adding live video to your dull PowerPoint presentations to applying the program’s video effects to your live chats, YouCam adds a new dimension to your webcam.
Not many dedicated photo editing tools can offer you the plethora of features and functions that you will find in YouCam. Certainly, only a few of them will offer you the possibility of creating panoramas out of your pictures, and even less will include HDR support as part of its functionality. Some video editors may let you record live video using your webcam, but only a few of them will let you add funny and creative effects and filters to it “on the fly”, and none will allow you to add it to your PowerPoint presentations and use it to enhance your Skype or Yahoo! Messenger conversations.
The easiest way of familiarizing yourself with YouCam’s functionality is by launching the program and opening its right-hand panel. Here you will find a long list of easy-to-use scenes, frames, particles, filters, distortions, emoticons, gadgets, stamps, brushes, avatars, etc., that you can apply to your image on the screen with just one click. You can record the entire process or take snapshots of the funniest or most creative results and share them with your family and friends. Both live video and whatever snapshots you take can be easily enhanced and “corrected” on the fly to guarantee the best quality possible. Alternatively, you can make use of the program’s wide selection of presets and correction tools to crop, rotate, add frames, “paint”, or apply dramatic effects to your best shots at post-processing. This new version 7 includes a set of new enhancing tools to beautify your portraits, remove any blemishes, smooth the skin and adjust its tone, whiten the teeth, or remove eye bags, among others.
But apart from more than 200 creative effects and its 50 animated emoticons, frames, and gadgets, CyberLink YouCam offers you a set of utilities that make this multi-purpose tool to stand out from the rest. Some are best enjoyed on your PC tablet, such as the already-mentioned panorama stitching tool, the HDR effect you can add to your photos, or the “Burst” function, which will allow you to take up to 10 photos with just one click. Finally, the dual-camera support will let you take a photo of your favorite spot while seeing yourself looking at it. Other extra utilities – suitable also for your laptop or desktop PC – offers you the possibility of logging in to your favorite sites using your face as the username and password, make a video of whatever action is taking place on your desktop, and turn your webcam into a security surveillance camera, which will record anyone who may decide to sit at your computer while you’re away.
Finally, YouCam is also a media organizer. The program’s library will show your photos organized by date and even by face! All you have to do is tag your portraits and the app’s organizer will put all photos belonging to the same person in the right group. There are more features that haven’t been listed in this short review, but those are for you to discover. You will be surely surprised to discover what YouCam can turn your webcam into.
v6.0.4601 [Dec 3, 2013]
With YouCam 6 Deluxe, the world's most popular webcam app, you now have the power to use your PC as a creative camera that does a lot more than just capture shots. Shoot in dramatic HDR and Panorama views, or personalize your photos with touch-friendly features such as paint, photo framing and a variety of enhancing editing tools and one-click color presets. Then browse your media creations in one place with the convenient new calendar view!
Various Shooting Modes
YouCam 6 transforms your PC into a camera that capable of producing works of art. Take luxurious Panorama and HDR shots with either front or rear cameras. Use new Burst Mode to capture up to 10 continuous photos with one click.
All-Around Fun at Your Fingertips
YouCam 6 puts the fun into your tablet PC with the new Full Screen mode designed specifically for touch-screens. Easily take photos and videos, enhance them, and share instantly - all with just a swipe or a tap of your fingers!
Stunning Panorama Photos
Use your tablet PC to capture stunning panoramic pictures. For an artsy montage effect, take multiple photos and combine the series into a wide-angle panorama photo.
Dramatic HDR Photos
Even not-so-perfect photos become show-stopping images when you add real-time HDR effects to photos taken in low lighting or high contrast scenes. Go even further to "touch up" the photos by enhancing shadows and highlights to bring out details in your photos.
Stylish Photo Frames
Give your photos that professional finishing touch with an array of photo frames in six unique styles.
Paint on Your Photos
Photos instantly become works of art with tools that let you personalize your photo with paint tools. Freely draw on your photos using a range of brush sizes and colors, or try freestyle drawing using your fingers on your touch-screen.
Crop & Rotate Photos
Create your favorite photos with easy crop and rotate tools that let you easily extract the best part of your photos. Choose from different ratio sets to crop your photo, or freely rotate the photos to get the perfect angle.
One-Click Photo Presets
Go from day to night, or dark to bright with one-click photo presets. Add unusual hues and colors to dramatically change the atmosphere of your photos. For more presets, download them for free at CyberLink's DirectorZone.com online community.
Browse in One Quick Calendar View
Using the time stamp on your digital media, YouCam 6 automatically organizes your photos and videos into a convenient calendar view by date.
Organize Photos with Face Tags
Searching for people is a snap with YouCam 6. Search your friends and family using name tags or try the advanced People Search icon where you can choose from your existing group of tagged friends.
Full WebCam Control from One Place
Your WebCam activities should be fun, which is why the new YouCam launcher interface lets you quickly and easily find the tasks that you want, right at your fingertips. For even more convenience, add the tasks and features you use most to your Favorites tab.
Full HD Quality Desktop Recording ENHANCED
HD Quality is difference you can see. Whether you're recording webcasts, business presentations or video chats of your screen, nothing beats viewing in HD. YouCam's desktop recording feature records full screens in 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratios, and lets you play around with recording specific areas of your screen and fixed regions following mouse movements. Record up to Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution.
