Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's
digital darkroom. Fix brightness, color, and photo flaws in a few clicks; use
precision editing tools to create the picture you want; give photos a unique,
exciting look using hundreds of special effects, and much more! Plus, the NEW
one-of-a-kind Express Lab helps you quickly view and fix dozens of photos in
the time it used to take to edit a few. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 even includes
a built-in Learning Center to help you get started, it's the easiest way to
get professional-looking photos - fast!
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal digital photography software for
users who want 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.
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
automatically preserved when users save an edited version. This new feature
provides a safety
net in case users want to return to the original version.
The Express Lab helps users quickly process large batches of photos.
Supporting these features is the award-winning Learning Center, which help
new users get up to speed quickly. The Learning Center is laid out in workflow
order, so users can easily identify what they'd like to do with their photos.
The Learning Center is truly integrated into the application, so selecting
a topic automatically launches the corresponding tool. Unlike products with
limited feature sets, Paint Shop Pro Photo provides a full range of functionality,
from quick, single-click adjustments to full manual controls. Many common photo-editing
tasks are much easier to perform in Paint Shop Pro Photo than in comparable
applications, such as Adobe Photoshop Elements. Examples include the following:
- Replacing color selectively--Change the color of any object in a photo
with just one click of the Color Changer tool while preserving the shading
and texture of the original object. Even changing a dark color to a light
color requires just a single click, as opposed to the difficult, multistep
manual
process required in Adobe Photoshop Elements.
- Correcting perspective--Turn
any lens into a tilt-swing perspective correction lens with the Perspective
Correction feature. Simply line up four corners
on a photo element that should be square, and double-click. Photoshop Elements
requires a complex process involving multiple controls.
- Blurring the background
selectively--Draw attention to an object of interest in a photo with the
Depth of Field effect. This feature simulates the use
of a low lens aperture setting.
- Sprucing up photo subjects--Apply tooth-whitening,
slimming, suntanning, and other enhancements with a suite of Makeover tool
modes.
- Giving images an older look--Take photos back in time by using the
seven different historical effects in the Time Machine feature.
- Removing
unwanted objects in photos--Outline an object to remove, and a background
area to use to replace it, and the object is gone.
This
technique is particularly
useful for objects that are larger than the area you use for the
replacement texture. In Photoshop Elements, this task requires
cloning, which often
leads to noticeable repeat patterns.
- Removing purple fringe--Detect
and remove the colored fringe that appears along high-contrast edges in
many digital camera photos
by
using the
Purple Fringe Remover.
- Simulating infrared film--Simulate the
ethereal effect of infrared photography. The Infrared Film effect even
includes options to
simulate the flare and
film grain qualities of this unique film type.
- Importing and
exporting CMYK format files--Benefit from fully supported color management,
with ICC-standard color profiles,
including importing
and exporting
CMYK format files.
- Merging auto-bracketed images--Take advantage
of a digital camera's auto-bracket feature to create images that retain
all the detail
of shadow and highlight
areas in a photo.
Process Your Photos Like the Pros
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has a variety of tools and features that allow users
to quickly process vast quantities of images without sacrificing quality.
Whether users work in offices, in photography studios, or at home, their
ability to quickly create top-notch images is critical. Paint Shop Pro Photo
X2 helps users get the end results they demand with a variety of high-quality,
intuitive, and time-saving tools and features.
New! Express Lab:
Nothing has fueled the digital camera revolution like the ability to take large
numbers of pictures without having to worry about the cost. As a result of
this newfound freedom, however, users are faced with the daunting tasks of
viewing, deleting, and fixing all of those downloaded photos.
The Express Lab is ideal for processing an entire folder of photos all at
once--without having to sacrifice power for speed. It helps users sort through
a vast quantity of images, allowing them to view and process the photos without
having to open each one.
New! Visible Watermark:
Professional photographers and hobbyists alike want to put their stamp on the
photos they take and share. The Visible Watermark feature lets users add
a discreet watermark to their photos to remind viewers who took the shot
and to help safeguard against misuse of their images. This new feature simplifies
the task of adding a logo or other graphic as a watermark, and users can
choose from options such as embossing to give their photos a subtle, professional
look.
New & Enhanced!
Auto-Preserve Originals and Save As:
Users don't have to worry about overwriting their original photos, thanks to
the new Auto-Preserve Originals option. The first time a user saves an image,
a backup copy of the original is automatically created one level deeper in
the folder hierarchy. The original can easily be restored by using the Restore
Original command in the File menu.
Paint Shop Pro Photo is renowned for the number of file formats users can
save to. The improved Save As command helps users quickly choose the formats
they use most often by listing common and recently used ones at the top of
the file format list.
New! Save for Office and Copy Special:
Preparing an image for use in documents, in presentations, or on the Web can
be tricky. The Save for Office command removes the guesswork by automatically
optimizing an image for its intended use, thereby avoiding problems with
file size, performance, or printing.
When users copy and paste images into other applications, the new Copy Special
command prepares the image based on its intended purpose. The resizing function
is built in, ensuring that no unnecessary image data is added to the document.
E-mailing:
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 lets users e-mail photos as embedded files or attachments.
A preview feature lets users double-check their images before sending them
and check a running count on the size of selected files.
Color Management:
The Color Management engine lets users read and save ICC-standard color profile
data in their files, which ensures that on-screen colors match printed colors.
In addition, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 supports CMYK input and output for commercial
printing.
Makeover tool modes let you quickly and easily touch up the appearance of
photo subjects.
Discover Editing Tools You Can't Find Anywhere Else:
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has a powerful toolset that can fix nearly any digital
photo imperfection. If the problem stems from the quality of the image produced
by the camera, a user can apply quick, easy corrections with a series of
time-saving tools. If photo subjects don't look their best, their appearance
can be spruced up faster and easier than ever before.
New & Enhanced!
Makeover Tool:
Everyone wants to look their best in a photo. To that end, Paint Shop Pro Photo
X2 includes a suite of Makeover tool modes that let users quickly and easily
touch up the appearance of photo subjects. The professional-strength Makeover
tool contains the following modes:
- New! Thinify Mode--makes photo subjects look thinner
- New! Eye Drop Mode--takes
the red out of irritated, bloodshot eyes
- Enhanced! Blemish Fixer Mode--removes blemishes from photo subjects
- Enhanced!
Suntan Mode--adds color to pale, washed-out skin
- Toothbrush Mode--quickly
whitens discolored teeth
Color Changer Tool:
The Color Changer tool lets users easily change colors in their digital images.
For example, users can easily change the color of an object in a photo, such
as a car or a piece of clothing. Rather than simply replacing a color, the
Color Changer tool detects and analyzes variations in brightness caused by
shading and texture, and then it makes the necessary adjustments to the new
color to produce a realistic recoloring effect.
Noise Removal:
"
Noise" artifacts--small specks of color that interfere with the clarity
of the image--are one of the most common problems in digital photography. Paint
Shop Pro Photo X2 gives users two noise-removal options. The One Step Noise
Removal command offers one-step, automatic noise removal.
The Digital Camera Noise Removal command allows users to precisely control
how these same corrections are applied. This feature has been favorably compared
to specialized noise-removal plug-ins that cost as much as Paint Shop Pro Photo
X2!
Perspective Correction Tool:
This longtime favorite gives users the power and versatility of an expensive
tilt-correction lens. With the Perspective Correction tool, users can fix
buildings, landmarks, or objects in their photos that appear in the wrong
perspective or that were taken from an angle other than directly in front.
Users can simply line up the four corner points with a shape that should
be rectangular to adjust the entire image
Object Remover:
If the only thing that stands between a good photo and a perfect one is an
unwanted element--a lamppost, a tree, even a bystander--the Object Remover
can help. The Object Remover makes it easy to remove unwanted or difficult-to-clone
portions of images and fills in the removed detail with portions of the remaining
photo. Just outline the object to remove, and a background area to use to
replace it, and the object is gone.
The Crop to New Image feature lets you quickly separate individual images
from group scan
The HDR Photo Merge feature helps users get the most out of their digital
cameras.
Easily correct distorted images with Lens Distortion Correction filters.
Enhanced! Crop Tool:
Users who scan multiple images at the same time will love the enhanced Crop
tool. The new Crop to New Image feature automatically creates a new file
from the cropped area and keeps the original full scan open, so users can
easily separate individual image files from the group scan.
Enhance Photos Using Powerful, Easy-To-Use Tools
Paint Shop Pro Photo is renowned for being user-friendly--that's because user
feedback has always played a huge role in its development. From requesting
one-click automatic fixes that take the guesswork out of image correction
to insisting on advanced image-editing tools, the user has spoken, and Paint
Shop Pro Photo X2 has responded. And as digital cameras have evolved, Paint
Shop Pro Photo has kept pace, so that users can get as much out of their
photos as their cameras offer.
New! HDR Photo Merge:
Many digital cameras have an auto-bracket feature, which lets users take multiple
shots of the same scene, each with a different exposure level. This feature
is ideal for photos taken in high-contrast scenes, such as a sunset. One
shot adjusts the exposure to capture the shadows, while another shot adjusts
the exposure to capture bright areas. The HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photo
Merge feature lets users combine auto-bracketed photos to create a photo
that retains the critical detail of the images being combined. While ideal
for photos shot using a tripod and auto-bracketing, this feature can automatically
align images captured with handheld cameras using manual exposure adjustments.
Enhanced! Black and White Film Effect:
Users can easily create dynamic black-and-white photos by simulating the effects
of shooting using black-and-white film with colored filters. Paint Shop Pro
Photo X2 gives users the full creative control of the Channel Mixer command
by letting them select from a virtually infinite range of color combinations
within an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. 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.
One Step Photo Fix and Smart Photo Fix:
The One Step Photo Fix command automatically applies six common photo corrections
to an image. All the user needs to do is select the command.
The Smart Photo Fix analyzes a photo and suggests settings for auto-corrections
of color, brightness, sharpness, and saturation used in One Step Photo Fix.
Completely flexible, users can apply the suggested settings or experiment further
by manually fine-tuning the settings. At any point, if users decide that they
prefer the results of the initially suggested fix, they can quickly reapply
the suggested settings. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 gives users the flexibility
to experiment freely with confidence, knowing that they can always revert to
their starting point.
Depth of Field Effect:
Paint Shop Pro Photo lets users draw attention to a specific area of an image.
The Depth of Field effect applies focus to a region of a photo while applying
an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. This allows users to easily
replicate the look of limited depth of field, an effect that usually requires
precise manual lens aperture adjustments.
Advanced Adjustments:
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 offers advanced users the professional-level tools
and features that are usually found only in expensive image-editing applications.
These advanced features include the following:
- Curves and Levels Adjustments--The Curves and Levels features in Paint
Shop Pro Photo X2 give users exceptional control over some of the most critical
imaging adjustments. The Curves dialog box includes a histogram, so photographers
can easily and intuitively fine-tune their work. Three automatic settings
let less-experienced users optimize the contrast and color levels in their
images
with a few clicks.
- Histogram Adjustment--With Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, the
Histogram Adjustment feature lets users display the tonal range of an image
and fine-tune the
balance of shadows, midtones, and highlights. More advanced users can use
this feature
to manually correct exposure.
- Adjustment Layers--Whenever a tonal or color change is applied to an
image, the image's information is altered, which means that the image ultimately
starts
to degrade. The advantage of using adjustment layers is that they do not
permanently modify the image layers themselves. Advanced users love working
with adjustment
layers in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 because they offer a great way to adjust
the color or tone of underlying layers without actually modifying the pixels
of those layers. In addition, users can add multiple adjustment layers
to test various color corrections or to see how several corrections look
when they're
combined.
Lens Distortion Correction Filters:
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 provides excellent Lens Distortion Correction filters
that help users correct common photo distortions, such as fish-eye, barrel,
and pincushion.
Create One-Of-A-Kind Photos
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 offers an array of graphics tools and creative effects
that help users transform their photos into one-of-a-kind artistic images.
While professional-strength image-correction tools have always been at the
core of the application, Paint Shop Pro Photo is also renowned for letting
users push their artistic boundaries. Whether making a photo look like it
was taken long ago with a bygone era's film and camera technology, or adding
stunning artistic effects, users of Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 can unleash their
creativity.
New! Layer Styles:
This feature lets users apply a variety of artistic effects to a layer, such
as Drop Shadow, Emboss, and Reflection, without having to leave the Layer
Properties dialog box.
Warp Brush:
The Warp Brush lets users easily create caricatures of their photos or photo
subjects by distorting the pixels in a particular area of the photo.
Effects Browser:
The Effects Browser lets users preview an enormous range of effects before
applying them to an image.
Vector Drawing Tools:
Using the Text tool, users can add descriptive or decorative text to an image,
and the text can be easily edited and formatted. Using the Preset Shapes
tool, users can add predefined shapes--such as callouts, arrows, flowers,
and gears--to images. The range of predefined shapes has been expanded in
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.
Enhanced! Picture Tubes:
A longtime user favorite, the Picture Tube tool lets users paint on their photos
with a collection of professionally designed artistic elements. For example,
users can add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting, fill an aquarium
with fish, or frame a picture with holly. Picture Tubes are available in
a variety of themes, and users can also create their own graphics to use
with the Picture Tube tool. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has several new Picture
Tubes, giving users more options when enhancing their photos.
Enhanced! Picture Frames and Photo Edges:
Using picture frames and photo edges, users can easily add eye-catching final
touches to their images. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 provides a variety of picture
frame styles, and the frames are editable, so users can tweak them or create
their own. The addition of new picture frames and photo edges in Paint Shop
Pro Photo X2 offers users even more creative possibilities.
System Requirements:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows XP with latest service
packs installed
RAM: 500 MB (768 recommended), 768 MB RAM required if using Windows Vista
Processor: 1 GHz (2 GHz recommended)
Hard Drive Space: 500 MB
24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or higher (included in Windows Vista and XP)
Additional
Requirements for selected features: Microsoft Outllook, Outlook Express,
WordPerfect MAIL or other MAPI-compliant email software (to email
from the product), Apple QuickTime 7 or higher (to play .mov files)
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