Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Paint Shop Pro is one of the oldest graphics and photo editors available and one of the most popular. It can enhance your digital images and is ideal for intermediate and advanced hobbyists and design professionals.

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate contains the following features above and beyond Paint Shop Pro X2:

• Support for more than 250 camera raw formats
• Background remover plug-in to change the background of a photo
• Creative content pack with 150 new photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes
• Certified for Windows Vista for better performance and enhanced security
• 2 GB USB flash drive to store and transfer your digital photos
• Painter Essentials 4 to turn photos into paintings in 3 easy steps
• Media recovery software to retrieve images, movies and sound files, even from reformatted memory cards

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has the following new features:

• A new photo fixing mode which lets you harness the power of Paint Shop Pro Photo in the new Express Lab.
• The Express Lab lets you crop, rotate, straighten, fix red-eye, remove blemishes, plus adjust brightness, shadows, highlights, and saturation without having to open the photo.
• The Express Lab also allows you to view and fix dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few.
• You can now add visible watermarks to all any or all of your photos.
• Original photos are automatically preserved when saving an edited version.
• Improved camera raw support.
• Makeover tools which allow you to smooth wrinkles, paint on a tan, remove blemishes, whiten eyes, and make the people in your photos look thinner in seconds.
• New Crop As New Image feature lets you quickly split up multiple-images you scanned at once.
• Change the color of objects (clothes, walls, etc) in your photos with just one click.
• Easily cut out the subject of your photos while retaining fine detail (like strands of hair) to place on another background or photo.
• Remove digital camera noise, fix crooked photos, correct perspective, restore old and damaged photos by removing scratches and fading, remove distracting objects, eliminate red eye in one click, sharpen out of focus pictures, adjust levels and curves, add depth of field, and remove fish-eye, barrel and other lens distortions.
• Merge photos with different exposures to create one perfectly exposed photo that captures detail in the highlights and the shadows.
• Improved dynamic black and white images by simulating the look of taking photos using a colored lens filter.

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