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A complete photo-editing software solution
Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2 Ultimate combines ease of use with full professional power. Fix brightness, color and photo imperfections like red eye in a few clicks, or use precision photo-editing controls to create photos you'll be proud to share. The Ultimate edition features valuable extras like media recovery software, a creative content pack, Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4 and a 2 GB flash drive.
Overview
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has everything you need to create stunning photos. The integrated Learning Center and a selection of one-click photo-fixing tools make it easy to correct common photo flaws such as red eye, color and sharpness. Unique makeover tools let you whiten teeth, remove blemishes and paint on a tan, so you can make everyone look their best before printing or posting photos online.
As your skills and confidence grow, you can harness the power of professional-quality features such as HDR Photo Merge, Histogram, Curves and Levels Adjustment tools to make precision edits. You can even get creative with artistic effects and filters to turn your favorite photos into fun projects to share with family and friends.
- Import pictures from your camera automatically
- Instantly fix common problems such as red eye, color and sharpness
- Add special effects to photos, text and projects with a few simple clicks
- Use advanced editing tools to fine-tune images on your own
- Print, email and share photos
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate
Includes:
- Paint Shop Pro photo editor
- New! Express Lab to quickly view and edit photos
- Corel® MediaOne™ Plus for easy photo and video management (DVD Maker not included)
- Video training for Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 by Lynda.com
- Photographic effects filters by Nik™ Software
- Enhanced! Support for more than 250 camera raw formats
- New! Background remover plug-in to change the background of a photo
- Enhanced! Creative content pack with 150 new photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes™
- New! Certified for Windows Vista® for better performance and enhanced security
- Bonus! 2 GB USB flash drive to store and transfer your digital photos
- Bonus! Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4 to turn photos into paintings in 3 easy steps
- Bonus! Media recovery software to retrieve images, movies and sound files, even from reformatted memory cards
What's New
Enhanced! Camera Raw Support
For those who shoot in raw format, support for more than 250 cameras is available.
New! Background Remover
This new plug-in lets you easily change the background in your photos to create unique and exciting effects. Just cut out part of an image, remove it from the background and place it on a different setting. You can even preserve fine image details like strands of hair or smoke.
Enhanced! Creative Content Pack
Ideal for scrapbooking and other creative photo projects, this bonus pack contains 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes™ that allow you to enhance any image with fun graphics.
New! Certified for Microsoft® Windows Vista®
Software that's Certified for Windows Vista has undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security.
Bonus! Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4
This fun program lets you turn a photo into a unique work of art in just 3 easy steps:
- Choose a photo and the painting style you want to apply.
- Let the Smart Stroke painting technology create a stunning painting.
- Touch up your masterpiece by hand if desired.
Bonus! Media Recovery Software
New Media Recovery software included with Paint Shop Pro X2 Ultimate can recover images, movies and sound files from memory cards, even if they have been reformatted. It is compatible with virtually all media card formats.
Bonus! USB Flash Drive
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate comes with a 2 GB USB flash drive for storing and transferring your digital photos and files.
New! Corel® MediaOne™ Plus (DVD Maker not included)
This fast, fun and easy photo & video software lets you turn pictures and video clips into slide shows, and create collages, calendars and album pages.
New! Express Lab
This super-fast Photo Fixing mode will save you hours. Now you can edit dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. Breeze through folders full of photos to perform common photo-editing tasks, without having to wait for each individual photo to open. For example, crop, rotate, remove red eye and straighten an entire folder full of photos at once.
New! Graphite Workspace Theme
As soon as you launch the program, your new workspace appears, featuring a darker theme that makes your photos really stand out. For people who prefer the classic interface, switch back with just a few clicks.
New! HDR Photo Merge
Easily create photos that give you full detail in the shadows and highlights. HDR Photo Merge helps you combine 2 or more photos taken at different exposures, then automatically dodge and burn to bring out the contrast.
New! Layer Styles
Easily add special effects, such as drop shadows, embossing, outer and inner glows, bevels and reflections, to your text, photos and creative projects. The best part is, if you make any changes to the layer, the effect is automatically changed to match.
New! Visible Watermarks
Whether you're a professional photographer or someone who wants to share your photos online, it's a good idea to add a discrete custom watermark to remind those viewing your pictures who the photographer was.
New! Picture Tubes™ & Picture Frames
Get creative with over 30 brand new, professionally designed Picture Tubes and 30 new Picture Frames, including an exclusive new set for people who upgrade.
A longtime user favorite, Picture Tubes let you paint on photos with a collection of professionally designed artistic elements. For example, add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting or fill an aquarium with fish.
Enhanced! Black & White Film Conversion
Create dynamic black & white photos by simulating the effects of shooting black & white film with colored filters.
Now you can select from a virtually infinite range of color combinations. This gives you full creative control of the Channel Mixer command, but in a far simpler interface. Plus, you can adjust brightness and apply Clarify to further enhance the black & white effect.
New & Improved! Makeover Tools
Quickly and easily touch up the appearance of your subjects to help everyone look their best in photos. This professional-strength tool contains the following modes:
- New! Thinify™ – make people look thinner with just a click
- New! Eye Drop – take the red out of irritated, bloodshot eyes
- Enhanced! Blemish Fixer – remove facial blemishes
- Enhanced! Suntan – add color to pale, washed-out skin
- Toothbrush – quickly whiten discolored teeth
New! Crop to New Image
This tool is ideal for people who scan multiple images at once. It automatically creates a new file from the cropped area and keeps the original full scan open so you can easily separate individual image files from the group scan.
System Requirements
- Windows Vista® or Windows® XP, with latest service packs installed
- 512 MB RAM (768 MB recommended)
- 768 MB RAM required if using Windows Vista
- 1 GHz processor (2 GHz recommended)
- 1.5 GB hard disk space
- 24-bit color display, 1024x768 resolution
- Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or higher (included in Windows Vista and XP)
- DVD drive
Additional requirements for select features
- Microsoft® Outlook®, Outlook Express, WordPerfect® MAIL or other MAPI-compliant email software (to email from the product)
- Apple® QuickTime® 7 or higher (to play .mov movie files)
