What’s new in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI carries on where the last version of Corel Paint Shop Pro left off by offering affordable, powerful, professional-grade tools and features. Photo enthusiasts — ranging from professional photographers to digital camera newcomers — can take their projects to a higher level with a toolset that yields astonishing results yet is easy to learn.
Integrated photo management
There’s much more to Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo than powerful image-editing tools and features. It’s a multifaceted digital photography suite that lets you effortlessly import, organize, and share photos with the built-in Organizer.
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New! Organizer — This one-stop photo-management center takes the guesswork out of finding photos stored on a computer. You can search for images by filename, date, file type, or folder location. Thumbnail zooming makes finding a particular image even easier and faster. The ability to assign keywords, ratings, and other information to an image gives you even more ways to search for photos. The Organizer is customizable, so you have several options for integrating it into their workflow. In addition, EXIF-data editing and the ability to play and extract frames from video files make the Organizer an essential, time-saving tool for hobbyists and professionals alike. |
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New! Quick Review — You can review photos and videos in a full-screen slide show format. Not only can you preview photos in a slide show, you can use Quick Review to apply a quick fix to a slide, set a rating for a slide, add captions, and rotate images in a slide show. You can then share your images by saving or e-mailing your images as a slide show file. |
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New! Photo Trays — You can gather photos from various folders and then e-mail, print, or upload the gathered photos. |
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New! Image Information panel — You can access key information about your photos quickly and easily in the Image Information panel. You can also rate your photos, as well as add keywords and dates, to facilitate image searching. |
Essential photo tools
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo is renowned for being user-friendly because your feedback has always played such a major role in the program’s development. From requesting one-click automatic fixes that take the guesswork out of image correction to demanding advanced tools that meet the exacting standards in digital photography, you the user have spoken, and Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo has responded.
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Enhanced! Crop tool — In response to your feedback, the Crop tool has been enhanced to give you the exact dimensions you want in a snap. When you select an area of an image with the Crop tool, a floating toolbar appears below the selected area, allowing you to choose a predefined crop size or to rotate the selected crop area. |
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Enhanced! One Step Photo Fix — This feature automatically adjusts the color balance, contrast, clarity, and saturation of an image. |
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Enhanced! Curves and Levels dialog boxes — The Curves and Levels dialog boxes have been overhauled to give you control over some of the most critical imaging adjustments. These dialog boxes now have histograms and improved rendering, so you can easily and intuitively fine-tune your work. If you are a less experienced user, you can try the three new automatic settings to optimize the contrast and color levels in your images with just a few clicks. |
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Enhanced! Raw camera file support — You can open and edit raw files from leading digital cameras. |
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New! Video file compatibility — You can now make the most of video clips. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI lets you view video clips and extract frames from a clip. |
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Enhanced! E-mail — Sharing images and photo projects has never been easier. You can e-mail photos, slide shows, and video clips as embedded files or attachments. A preview allows you to double-check images before they’re sent, and the program keeps a running count on the size of the selected files. |
Ingenious editing tools
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo has a powerful toolset that can fix virtually any digital photo imperfection. If the problem stems from the quality of the image produced by the camera, you will find a series of tools that offer easy, quick corrections. Or, if photo subjects don’t look their best in the photo, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo can spruce up their appearance.
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New! Color Changer tool — You can easily change colors in digital images to achieve more realistic colors. Rather than simply replacing a color, the Color Changer tool detects and analyzes variations in brightness caused by real-world illumination and reapplies the illumination to the new color to produce a realistic effect. |
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New! Skin Smoothing — You can quickly and easily even out the skin tone of people in their photos with the new Skin Smoothing feature. A preview of the change lets you choose how much smoothing to apply. |
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New! Compatibility with Corel Painter Essentials and Corel Painter — Renowned among digital artists, photo hobbyists, and professional photographers, Corel Painter and Corel Painter Essentials can simulate a wide range of traditional art tools. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI now supports RIFF, the native file format for both of these programs. |
Unique special effects
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo offers an array of graphics tools and creative effects that help you transform a photo into a truly unique image. Whether you are inspired by a photographic process from a bygone era or want to add stunning artistic effects to your images, you’ll find the tools that let you unleash your creativity.
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New! Time Machine — Now you can see what your photos would look like if they had been taken in another era. The Time Machine offers a range of settings based on photo styles from the 1830s to the 1980s, so you can easily send your photos back in time. |
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New! Film and Filters — Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI provides a range of effects inspired by classic film and filter types. You can combine different effects with different film or filter types to produce interesting, eye-catching results. |
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New! Depth of Field — You can now easily draw attention to a specific area of an image. The new Depth of Field effect lets you apply focus to a region of a photo while applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. This new feature lets you easily replicate the look of the depth-of-field feature found in high-end cameras. |
Corel Snapfire Plus SE
Corel Snapfire Plus SE is a preview product that offers you a series of great image-editing and photo-management tools that work in tandem with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo. These tools can help you import, edit, and share your images. After the limited preview period, you can continue to use the more basic features, which are found in Corel Snapfire.
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Photo Doctor — The Photo Doctor removes the guesswork from photo correction by analyzing a digital photo and recommending when Quick Fix should be applied. With a single click, you can then adjust the color balance, contrast, clarity, and saturation to optimal levels. |
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Corel Photo Downloader — When you plug devices such as cameras or card readers into your computer, Corel Photo Downloader can automatically download the photos and let you edit them with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo or Corel Snapfire. Corel Photo Downloader has a memory function that keeps track of which photos have already been downloaded, and you can easily view the most recent downloads. What’s more, you can instruct the Corel Photo Downloader to perform the download automatically when a camera or memory card is inserted. |
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Simple photo projects — Corel Snapfire Plus SE includes many creative templates designed to inspire you to do more with your photos. With drag-and-drop simplicity, you can easily create stunning album pages, greeting cards, calendars, and collages. |
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