professional-looking photos and new ways to unlock their creative potential. With the widest selection of photo-editing features--ranging from automatic tools when you need results fast or precision controls for fine-tuning--Paint Shop Pro Photo provides a depth of functionality that grows with users as their skills and knowledge advance. Downloading, viewing, orting, and quickly processing photos is a breeze, and users can learn as they go with a variety of learning aids in the application. With version X2, award-winning Paint Shop Pro Photo continues to set the standard for easy-to-use, powerful software at an affordable price. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 continues to focus on photo editing, making it the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom. The exciting new features in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 include the following: Express Lab - A new streamlined mode of Paint Shop Pro Photo helps users quickly view and fix dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. Now users can crop, rotate, and fix their photos without having to open them individually. Graphite Interface Theme - A new, darker theme for Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 makes photos look their absolute best while users edit them. HDR Photo Merge - Users can take advantage of their camera's autobracketing feature and combine multiple exposures of high-contrast scenes, which are otherwise impossible to capture adequately. Integrated Clarify Control - Users can achieve incredible results with HDR Photo Merge by applying automatic dodging and burning. The enhanced Black and White Film dialog box also provides a Clarify control, so users can create dynamic, high-contrast images that mimic the use of black-and-white film with a color filter on the lens. Makeover Tool Modes - The suite of easy-to-use retouching tools grows in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 to include the new Thinify and Eye Drop modes, which give super results, fast. Layer Styles - Users can easily apply effects such as embossing, drop shadows, glows, and even reflections, which automatically update whenever the underlying layer is edited. Visible Watermarks - Users can take credit for their work by adding watermarks to photos. All it takes is a few clicks before printing or uploading proof copies. Workflow Improvements - Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 makes it easier to use photos in documents, presentations, and Web pages through the new Save for Office and Copy Special options, plus redesigned Resize and Save As dialog boxes. Auto-Preserve Originals - Original photos are now autom
photographer, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI is the ideal choice for people who want extraordinary photos. With a built-in Learning Center to help first time users get started, i
photographer, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI is the ideal choice for people who want extraordinary photos. With a built-in Learning Center to help first time users get started, i
Advantages: Affordable, massive range of tools, accepts many Photoshop plugins, easy to learn Disadvantages: It's not Photoshop.
...I've been using PaintShopPro since around 1998/9, when PSP5 was out. Since then, it's been through many different upgrades, and I've learnt much about photo and image editing along the way.
Until version 10, or PaintShopProX to give it its proper title, the software was developed and sold by Jasc. From version 10 onwards, however, it has been part of the Corel family of software, alongside the likes of Corel Draw and, of late, Winzip. From version 11 onwards, the software gained the word 'Photo' in its title, becoming Corel PaintShopProPhoto XI.
It's impossible to give a review that covers absolutely everything about a product like PaintShopPro. Certainly, I doubt there are many people in the world who could claim to use everything it has to offer confidently enough to give a worthwhile opinion.
I'll try my best...
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Advantages: Great price compared to others, vast amount of tools, seemless editing Disadvantages: Adds noise involuntarily
...After getting tired of the freebies Picasa and HP Photosmart I decided it was time to get myself a more intricate photo editor. I didn't know much about photo editing at the time but our computer came with a demo of X1, which was nearly 2 years ago. I liked the demo so I thought I would go buy Corel PaintShopProX2.
I paid about £25 for it in total to be shipped from america on ebay. Not bad, considering that other places and shops were selling it for anything up to £40.
I was expecting the CD to come in a plastic DVD case meaning there would be room for an instruction manual. It actually came in a cardboard tyvek sleeve thing, meaning no instruction manual or tips and tricks. The back of the sleeve just stated the things you can do on the program, and gave a little bit on system requirements.
When loading the CD, the menu...
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Advantages: less processor memary than photoshop Disadvantages: There are never enough features!
...This software graphics product is one of the best alternatives to Adobe Photoshop CS3/ CS2. It has a similar layout and design if you are familiar with photoshop.
There are many drawing features that this product has such as vector drawing, exporting images, normal shape and paintbrush tools.
The product also comes equipped with features used to enhance photos by adjusting features such as brightness, contrast, grayscale, removal of red eyes etc.
It also has some nice graphic based tools such as artistic effects / 3d effects / texture based tools.
As with other similar products it supports the use of layers in images, swatches, transparent backgrounds, picture tubes and has a nice feature that removes backgrounds from image files.
It is probably easier to use than photoshop and a great choice at a reasonable price....
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