A complete digital photography toolkit
Paint Shop Pro X is a complete digital photography toolkit that includes powerful photo editing tools, an array of graphics, creative effects, and digital art tools, and a new photo management application for organizing, sharing, and showcasing photos. Offering unrivaled flexibility and the industrys best combination of auto-correct tools and precision controls, Paint Shop Pro X lets users apply quick fixes for fast results or they can fine-tune settings until they achieve the desired effect. Included with Paint Shop Pro for the very first time, Corel Photo Album 6 Standard Edition gives users everything they need to organize and share photos. Users can quickly toggle between the two applications and always know where they are. With Corel Photo Album, users can quickly and easily create slide shows, screen savers, and wallpapers, burn a CD, or attach photos to e-mail. Corel Photo Album also lets users upload their favorite photos to photo sharing Web sites. From greeting cards, calendars, and photo albums to more creative projects like magazine covers, collages, and CD labels, Corel Photo Album gives users unlimited opportunities to showcase their photos.
New features and enhanced performance
The new features and enhancements in Paint Shop Pro X reflect Corels commitment to continuous investment and innovation on behalf of its customers. To improve productivity and increase user enjoyment, the user interface (UI) has been redesigned to make it even easier to access the most commonly used tools. The redesigned UI helps users complete photo editing tasks by making it even easier to navigate through typical photo editing workflows. The most commonly used tools have been reorganized and grouped logically by task for easier user discovery. In addition, the overall performance of Paint Shop Pro has been improved resulting in faster startup times and increased stability for larger, more detailed files. Paint Shop Pro X also supports more than 50 industry standard file formats, including JPG, TIF, GIF, RAW, PSD, SVG, BMP, and PNG.
The new Learning Center organizes tools into categories for efficient access, improving productivity for new and seasoned users alike. Within seconds of launching the software, the groundbreaking Learning Center helps users harness the power of advanced photo editing, regardless of their software experience. Unlike wizard-driven features that lock users into predefined, inflexible workflows, the Learning Center lets users choose how much guidance they need. A flexible, step-by-step guide, it provides quick access to the instructions and tools needed to complete many common photo editing tasks. At any time, users are free to turn off the Learning Center to experiment on their own.

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Corel Paint Shop Pro X Customer Profile
Corel Paint Shop Pro X offers the broadest range of functionality for novices, hobbyists, and professionals alike. With its unique combination of easy-to-use tools and advanced photo editing features, Paint Shop Pro X lets users create impressive results right out of the box. It also provides the breadth and depth of professional features to let users grow into the program as their curiosity and experience develops. Paint Shop Pro X gives users all of the tools, support, and guidance needed to unlock the full potential of every photograph with plenty of opportunities to experiment freely.

Photo Hobbyists

Photo hobbyists are serious about taking pictures and often carry their camera with them at all times. Theyre ready to capture photo opportunities in every situation and they want simple tools that enable them to enhance their photos and inject their own personal touches. Photo hobbyists like to experiment with new technologies and techniques, and appreciate the ability to undo or redo an unlimited number of steps. Paint Shop Pro X provides photographers of all skill and experience levels with tools that balance the efficiency of quick fixes with the power of precision photo editing controls.
Professional Photographers
Professional and semi-professional photographers derive income from their photography. They dont mind investing in new technology and are continually seeking new methods of optimizing their photos. However, they dont want software to interfere with their vision by locking them into a workflow. Busy professionals expect software to inspire them creatively without adding time to their workflow. Paint Shop Pro X offers professional photographers a world of creative possibilities to explore and an array of powerful, professional, yet easy-to-use tools that won't slow them down.

Small Business Owners

Small business owners use photography to augment their business. They recognize the importance of using professional-quality photos and graphics in their marketing and promotional materials. They may also wear many hats, having to perform multiple jobs at once and produce professional results quickly. Many small business owners dont have the time to invest in learning complex software. Paint Shop Pro X offers the groundbreaking Learning Center to make it easy for new users to achieve professional-quality results right out of the box.

Arts and Crafts Enthusiasts
Arts and crafts enthusiasts take pictures mostly for pleasure and enjoy working on creative projects in their spare time. They often use photos or create graphics to add colorful imagery to their projects. With the explosion of digital camera technology, more people are exploring the realm of digital arts and crafts. Projects such as scrapbooking, digital painting, photo restoration, and genealogy are all possible with Paint Shop Pro X. In addition, Paint Shop Pro includes an impressive collection of graphics, templates, and digital arts tools that give users a wide range of simple creative options to personalize their projects.
What's included with Corel Paint Shop Pro X?

Applications

Corel Paint Shop Pro X Corel Photo Album 6 Standard Edition Pixmantec RawShooter Essentials Lynda.com Training CD

Content

Paint Shop Pro X provides hundreds of high-quality, easy-to-use creative extras, including: Picture Tubes - Click and paint with photos and creative pictures Picture Frames - Easily add decorations and borders Photo Edges - Apply a unique shape or a torn-edges look Patterns - Paint with sophisticated colors and unique combinations; make your own backgrounds or scrapbook paper Textures - Paint with any color, then use a texture to add depth

Printed Documentation

Corel Paint Shop Pro X User Manual Corel Paint Shop Pro X includes an updated User Manual that guides users through common photo fixing and enhancement workflows. The printed User Manual mirrors the workflow outlined in the new Learning Center to ensure consistency and quick mastery of the application.

Electronic Documentation

Help file Learning Center palette

Training

Paint Shop Pro X now includes a free Lynda.com Training Video on CD. The CD provides two hours of easy to follow video instruction perfect for visual learners who prefer to watch and learn versus following along with a manual. (Available in North American English versions only.)
Minimum System Requirements
500 MHz processor Windows 2000 (SP4) or Windows XP 256 MB of RAM 500 MB of free hard drive space 1024 x 768 resolution display, 16-bit color Macromedia Flash Player 7 (included)
Recommended System Configuration
1.0 GHz processor or faster Windows XP 512 MB of RAM 500 MB of free hard drive space 1024 x 768 resolution display, 32-bit color

Top New Features

The redesigned Corel Paint Shop Pro X user interface accelerates learning and increases productivity by: providing users with the new Learning Center palette that logically groups tools into common photo editing tasks so they can quickly and easily access the tools they need providing a new Browser palette that makes it easier than ever for users to access, view, organize, and work with their images and by providing a fully customizable workspace that ensures that users can work in the way that theyre most comfortable.

Corel Paint Shop Pro X continues its tradition of providing outstanding new features that were designed to help users get the most out of every photo and achieve professional-looking results every time. Regardless of the users level of experience with photo editing software, Paint Shop Pro X combines powerful creative features with unmatched ease of use.
Redesigned User Interface Accelerates Learning and Increases Productivity
The Paint Shop Pro X user interface (UI) has been redesigned to accelerate learning and increase productivity. Through an increased customer focus, weve streamlined feature implementation to ensure that users can complete photo editing tasks more quickly and more easily navigate through typical workflows. Weve also grouped features and commands to provide users with faster access to the tools that they use most. New! The Corel Paint Shop Pro X Learning Center A revolutionary approach to learning, the Learning Center is a step-by-step guide that provides quick access to the instructions and tools needed to complete an array of common photo editing tasks. The groundbreaking Learning Center was designed to ensure that anyone can harness the power of advanced photo editing, regardless of their previous software experience. It builds user confidence by helping them complete tasks within seconds of launching Paint Shop Pro X, resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction and enjoyment from the software.
Especially helpful for new users, the powerful Learning Center even selects the necessary tool for a chosen task, making it easy to identify tools and access features while learning the application. The Learning Center is context sensitive, providing relevant information on how to use the currently selected tool. In addition, the Learning Center is completely flexible and adapts to the requirements of individual users. For example, more experienced users may use it to access their favorite tools more quickly or they may opt to turn it off and navigate independently through the program. New! Browser palette The Browser palette has been integrated into the Paint Shop Pro X workspace to make it even easier for users to access, view, organize, and work with their images. Dynamic zooming options allow maximum precision and control when viewing photos. The ability to view EXIF metadata within the Browser palette helps users work more efficiently with their images and photo collections.

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Browsing your PC for photos 1 On the Learning Center palette, click Get Photos. 2 Click Browse. 3 On the Browser palette, use the drop-list to select the folder in which to browse for photos. Note: If you cannot see the Browser palette, you can toggle it on or off by pressing Ctrl + B. 4 On the Browser palette, drag the Magnifying Glass to dynamically adjust the size of thumbnail previews. slider
5 Click the Image Information button to see EXIF metadata for each image. 6 To open a photo for editing in the workspace, double-click a thumbnail. Customizable Workspace The Paint Shop Pro X workspace is fully customizable to ensure that users can work in the way that theyre most comfortable. Users can easily arrange elements in the workspace according to their personal preference, ensuring that the options and palettes that they use most are easily accessible.
Corel Paint Shop Pro X gives users an array of quick and simple tools to correct brightness, color, and flaws in their photos, including: a new Smart Photo Fix feature that auto-corrects color, brightness, sharpness, and saturation a new One-Step Noise Fix feature that lets users remove excess graininess from their photos new Makeover tools that quickly let users fix blemishes, wrinkles, stained teeth, and pale skin a new Red-Eye tool that instantly removes red-eye a new, intelligent Object Remover that lets users quickly remove unwanted elements from their photos.

Adjust and Retouch

Anyone who has ever taken a photo already knows that conditions arent always ideal and results arent always as expected. Whether it's a lack of brightness or the common phenomenon of red eye, Paint Shop Pro X provides powerful, easy-to-use tools to unlock the full potential of every photo. From the basics of rotating and cropping to more advanced tasks like fade correction and removing digital camera noise, Paint Shop Pro helps users bring out the very best in every image. A direct result of user feedback, the Adjust and Retouch tools have been grouped together for easier access in Paint Shop Pro X. When we talked to our users, they told us that digital darkroom tasks, such as fixing exposure and lighting problems, as well as retouching and editing portions of photos were the most important tasks that they wanted to accomplish. New! Smart Photo Fix The new Smart Photo Fix analyzes a photo and suggests settings to auto-correct color, brightness, sharpness, and saturation all in one step. Completely flexible, users can apply the one-click fix or experiment further by manually fine-tuning the settings. At any point, if users decide that they prefer the results of the initial fix, they can quickly reapply the suggested settings. Paint Shop Pro X gives users the flexibility to experiment freely and the confidence that they can always revert to their starting point.

New! Object Remover The new Object Remover lets users seamlessly extract unwanted elements from photos, intelligently filling in the resulting gaps with appropriate background detail.

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Create and Collage
Corel Paint Shop Pro X includes a wealth of features that were designed to inspire users to do more with their photos. When users have finished adjusting, enhancing, or retouching photos, theres another world of creativity waiting for them to explore. Paint Shop Pro X now includes Corel Photo Album 6 Standard Edition for organizing and sharing photos. With drag and drop simplicity, users can showcase their photos by using Corel Photo Album to create sophisticated photo collages, calendars, e-cards, greeting cards, album pages, and more. New! Corel Photo Album 6 Standard Edition Corel Photo Album 6 includes hundreds of new drag and drop project templates, organization features, and sharing options. This new application is the perfect complement to Paint Shop Pro X and gives users many options for organizing, sharing, and showcasing their photo collections.
Corel Paint Shop Pro X provides many features that let users create elegant projects with their photos, including: Corel Photo Album 6 - Standard Edition with hundreds of drag and drop project templates for showcasing photos a new Pick tool that improves productivity by letting users select, move, rotate, or resize objects and a redesigned Layers palette that makes it simple to understand and work with layers.
Creating a Photo Calendar 1 Choose File Launch Corel Photo Album. 2 On the Find panel, choose the folder containing the images that you want to use. 3 Click the Create tab, and click Calendar. 4 Select a month from the Month drop-list and a year from the Year drop-list, and click OK. Thumbnail previews of the calendar layouts display in the Settings panel. 5 On the Settings panel, select a Layout for your calendar. 6 From the Image Strip on the right of the application window, simply drag your photo onto the calendar layout. 7 To save your calendar, click Save. 8 To print your calendar, click Print.

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Creating an Album Page 1 Choose File Launch Corel Photo Album. 2 On the Find panel, choose the folder containing the images that you want to use. 3 Click the Create tab, and click Album Page. 4 Select one of the following page layouts: Vertical Horizontal Square Thumbnail previews of the album page layouts display in the Settings panel. 5 On the Settings panel, select a Layout for your album page. 6 From the Image Strip on the right of the application window, simply drag your photo onto the Album Page. 7 To add text to your album page, click in the Click to add Text box on the album page layout and type your text in the Text field on the Settings panel. 8 To adjust your text, you can choose the Font, Font Style, Size, and Color on the Settings panel. 9 To save your project, click Save. 10 To print your project, click Print.

New! Pick tool The new Pick tool lets users select, move, rotate, or resize raster and vector objects in their photos. By combining all of these actions in one tool, Paint Shop Pro X delivers significant productivity gains to its users.

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New! Layers palette The Layers palette has been redesigned to make it easier to use and understand. By providing a thumbnail view of each layer in an image, the Layers palette accelerates productivity and increases user confidence because they can easily see what they are working on. This new approach to layers provides a visual frame of reference that is particularly helpful to users who may not have previously worked with layers. Users can view and select individual layers, create new raster or vector layers, create layer groups to organize layers, and more.
Creating a Collage The Smart Edge Selection tool makes it easy to select irregular shaped areas of photos. This tool is particularly useful for copying, editing, or removing the people or objects in photos. 1 Open the photo with a person or object that you want to remove and place in a different image or setting. 2 On the Learning Center palette, click the Home button, then click Collage Make Selections Freehand Selection tool. 3 On the Tool Options palette, choose Smart Edge from the Selection type drop-list, Replace from the Mode drop-list, and set the Feather control to 2. Note: If you cannot see the Tool Options palette, you can toggle it on or off by pressing F4. 4 Trace the edges of the person or object that you want to copy to another image by clicking its edges. You can click as many times as it takes to cleanly trace the edge, the tool will find the edge for you as you go. Double-click to complete the selection. 5 Choose Edit Copy, or press Ctrl + C. 6 Choose File New to open the New Image dialog box. 7 In the Image Dimensions group box, select Inches from the Units droplist and set the Width and Height controls to 5. 8 Set the Resolution to 180, and choose Pixels/inch from the drop-list. 9 In the Image Characteristics group box, mark the Raster Background option, and click on the Color swatch. 10 In the Material Properties dialog box, click the Pattern tab, choose a pattern, and click OK. 11 Click OK to create the new image. 12 Choose Edit Paste As New Layer and use the Pick tool to adjust the size of the person or object.

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Corel Paint Shop Pro X gives users simple, straightforward graphics tools and creative effects that let them give their photos a unique and exciting look, including: new B&W Conversion and B&W Infrared Film Conversion filters enable users to create stunning effects and a new Color Management engine that ensures onscreen colors will match printed output.

Graphics and Effects

Unlike other software packages in this category, Corel Paint Shop Pro X includes an array of graphics tools and creative effects that help users transform their photos into something truly unique. While its fun to correct the color and adjust the objects in photos, theres much more that users can do with Paint Shop Pro. From converting color photos to black and white to adding stunning artistic effects, Paint Shop Pro provides the tools to accomplish virtually anything a users imagination dreams up.
New! B&W Conversion and B&W Infrared Film Conversion effects With Black & White Conversion and Black & White Infrared Conversion filters, users can control the contrast strength and adjust the grain level of their photos to simulate real black and white, and infrared film.
Converting a photo to Infrared Black and White 1 Open the photo that you want to convert to black and white. This effect works best on photos with plants or green vegetation. 2 On the Learning Center palette, click the Home button, then click Effects Convert to Infrared. 3 In the Infrared Film dialog box, adjust the values in the Strength, Flare, and Grain controls until you are satisfied with the result. 4 Click OK.
New! Color Management The new Color Management engine lets users read and save color profile data in their files. Color Management also helps users ensure the colors that they see onscreen will match their printed output. In addition, Paint Shop Pro supports CMYK output for commercial printers.

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Adding Motion Blur to a still image You can add Motion Blur to a photo to create the illusion that the photo was taken while the subject was in motion. 1 From the menu, choose Adjust Blur Radial Blur. 2 In the Blur Type group box of the Radial Blur dialog box, choose Zoom. 3 In the Before preview window, move the crosshair until it is centered over the main focal point of the photo. 4 In the Center group box, enter a value above 50% in the Protect center field. This will keep the main focal point of the photo in focus. 5 Click OK.
Creating a Fun Photo Caricature The Warp Brush tool lets you create caricatures of photos or photo subjects by distorting the pixels in a particular area of a photo. 1 Open a photo that you want to transform into a caricature. 2 On the Learning Center palette, click the Home button, then click Effects Warp Photos. 3 With the Warp Brush tool, click and drag anywhere on the image to distort the pixels in that area. You can set the size of the Warp Brush tool by adjusting the Size control on the Tool Options palette. You can remove distortions by clicking the Iron Out or Unwarp buttons on the Tool Options palette and drawing over the warped area. Note: If you cannot see the Tool Options palette, you can toggle it on or off by pressing F4. 4 To finalize the warps, click the Apply (checkmark) button on the Tool Options palette.

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Corel Paint Shop Pro X includes Corel Photo Album 6 - Standard Edition that provides many creative project templates and simple features to help users find photos fast and share memories with family and friends, including: a new Quick E-Mail feature that quickly attaches photos to e-mail a new, fast and easy Quick Print feature that remembers user settings multiple options for sorting and viewing photo collections and a new Quick Show feature that lets users instantly create photo slide shows.

Organize and Share

Corel Paint Shop Pro X includes Corel Photo Album 6 Standard Edition to help users organize and share their photos, taking the effort out of managing photo collections. While Paint Shop Pro provides a wealth of creative effects and fixes, Corel Photo Album 6 offers an array of creative project templates for showcasing, organizing, and sharing photos. As the perfect partner to Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo Album 6 offers quick, easy-to-use options for organizing photo collections. Corel Photo Album includes the Corel Photo Downloader that instantly downloads images from a digital camera or card reader. In addition, users can choose from a myriad of methods to organize, share, and showcase their photos. New! Quick E-mail With just a few clicks, the Quick E-mail feature of Corel Photo Album 6 instantly attaches photos to an e-mail for sharing with others. New! Quick Print The Quick Print feature remembers user settings to make printing photos faster and easier than ever before. New! Find panel The Find panel in Corel Photo Album 6 gives users multiple options for browsing the photos on their PC. Users can sort and view photos by Calendar, File Folders, Keywords, Favorite Folders, or Collections. For example, users can sort their photos by the date that they were taken.
Browsing photos by date 1 Choose File Launch Corel Photo Album. 2 On the Find panel, choose Calendar from the Find using drop-list. 3 Using the calendar on the Find panel, select a date to view the photos that were taken on that date.
New! Quick Show The new Quick Show feature lets users instantly create a slide show using the photos in the currently selected folder.
Creating a slide show 1 Select the folder that contains the images that you want to use for a slide show. 2 Choose Share Slide Show Save Slide Show as a Movie. 3 In the Make Movie dialog box, type a number in the Seconds / Frame field. 4 Click Browse to choose the folder in which to save your movie. 5 Click OK. Your images will immediately be wrapped up into a QuickTime movie, ready to view or e-mail.

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Familiar Favorites
With Corel Paint Shop Pro X, longtime users can continue to enjoy their favorite features that have traditionally driven customer satisfaction. The following easy-to-use features continue to inspire hobbyists and professionals to do more with their photos. One-Step Photo Fix With just one click, the One-Step Photo Fix command automatically adjusts the color balance, contrast, clarity, and saturation of an image. It also smooths photo edges and sharpens an image. Background Eraser The Background Eraser tool lets users easily remove unwanted backgrounds while retaining the fine detail in their photos.

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RAW file format support Paint Shop Pro X continues to support the RAW file format. Users can open, enhance, process, and convert images that were output from digital cameras to the RAW file format. 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, including Animals, Artistic, Embellishments, Nature, Photo Objects, and Plants and Leaves. Users can also create their own picture tubes.

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Scripting A Paint Shop Pro powerhouse, scripting can save users tremendous amounts of time, especially when working with batches of images. Users simply record a series of commands and then play them back to process an image or batch of images. Batch Processing Users can easily process batches of images with Paint Shop Pro. The Batch Process command lets them use scripts to apply fixes to batches of images, and users can also convert batches of images to a different file format. Perspective Correction tool With the Perspective Correction tool, users can fix buildings, landmarks, or objects in their photos that appear to be in the wrong perspective or that were taken from an angle other than directly in front. Lens Correction filters Paint Shop Pro continues to provide excellent Lens Correction filters that help users correct common photo distortions, such as fish-eye, barrel, and pincushion. Photos with fish-eye distortions appear as if they were pasted onto a sphere, or blown-up like a balloon. Photos with barrel distortions appear as if they were pushed out at the center. Photos with pincushion distortions appear as if they were pushed in at the center. Straighten tool The Straighten tool lets users quickly align crooked photos and automatically crop off the edges. Users can also re-align an entire photo with any line in the photo using the Straighten tool.

Scratch Remover The Scratch Remover tool instantly removes scratches, power lines, telephone poles, and other linear flaws or distractions from photos. This tool is particularly useful for removing scratches or cracks when restoring old photos. Clone tool The Clone tool lets users cover flaws in their photos by copying detail from a neighboring area. Users simply choose a source location and then draw over the flawed area of their image. This replaces the flaw with detail from the source location. Motion Blur Users can add Motion Blur to a photo to create the illusion that the photo was taken while the subject was in motion. Distort Photos The Warp Brush tool lets users create caricatures of their photos or photo subjects by distorting the pixels in a particular area of the photo.

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Summary of New or Improved Features

New! Photo features

The Smart Photo Fix auto-corrects color, brightness, sharpness, and saturation while letting users adjust or fine-tune the suggested settings before committing to them. The Makeover tools let users retouch or airbrush the faces in their photos to remove flaws, just like magazines do for their models. Users can choose between the Blemish Fixer, the Toothbrush, the Suntan Brush, and the Wrinkle Fixer. Users can quickly zap red-eye from their photos with the click of a button using the Red-Eye tool. 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. With one click, the One-Step Purple Fringe Fix lets users remove the purple glow surrounding the edges of people and objects that can appear in many digital photos. Paint Shop Pro X now offers the High Pass Filter, one of the industry's most popular ways to sharpen digital photos. With Black & White Conversion and Black & White Infrared Conversion filters, users can control the contrast strength and adjust the grain level of their photos to simulate real black and white, and infrared film. The One-Step Noise Fix lets users remove digital camera noise or excess graininess with one click. Paint Shop Pro X supports 16-bit functionality, which allows photographers to work with thousands of shades per color rather than the 8-bit limit of 256 shades. The Color Management engine lets users read and save color profile data and ensures screen-to-print color matching. Paint Shop Pro X also supports CMYK output for commercial printers. Improvements to File Metadata lets photographers add copyright data, enter IPTC information. Paint Shop Pro X metadata also obeys the EXIF rotation flag from cameras so that images arrive in the application window already rotated.

New! User Interface features
The new Learning Center guides users step-by-step through common photo editing tasks and tool selection to ensure that they can get the job done while learning the application.

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The Browser has been enhanced to offer more options, such as a Zoom slider for quickly adjusting the size of thumbnail previews, EXIF editing, the option to download photos from a digital camera, and the ability to dock the Browser in different workspace locations. The redesigned Layers palette provides thumbnail views of each image layer, making it easier to use and understand. With the new Pick tool users can select, move, resize, and rotate raster and vector objects.
New! Performance features
Paint Shop Pro X offers Faster Start-Up speed so that users can view their photos in a flash. Now that Paint Shop Pro saves undo and redo data, users benefit from Faster Undo\Redo of multiple steps. Users can run an automatic script to save time when opening batches or single images using File Open Pre-Processing.

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Corel Corporate Profile
Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in more than 75 countries improve their productivity. The company is renowned for its powerful software portfolio, which combines innovative photo-editing, graphics-creation, vector-illustration, and technical-graphics applications with office and personal productivity solutions. Corels flagship products include the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect Office suite, Corel Painter Natural-Media painting and illustration software, and the Paint Shop family of digital photography and image-editing software. For more information, please visit www.corel.com.

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Media Contact North America
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Contents

1 | Introducing Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.| Customer Profile...5
Aspiring Photographers... 5 Workplace Communicators... 6

3 | Top Features...7

Process Your Photos Like the Pros... 7 Discover Editing Tools You Cant Find Anywhere Else. 11 Enhance Photos Using Powerful, Easy-To-Use Tools.. 16 Create One-Of-A-Kind Photos... 20
4 | Summary of New or Improved Features.| Whats Included?...25
Applications.... 25 Content.... 25 Printed Documentation... 26 Electronic Documentation... 26 Minimum System Requirements... 26 Recommended System Configuration... 26 Additional Requirements for Selected Features... 26
6 | Customer Support and Other Resources.27
Introducing Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
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, sorting, 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. 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. Reviewers Guide [ 1 ]

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. Supporting these features is the award-winning Learning Center, which helps 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

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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 cameras auto-bracket feature to create images that retain all the detail of shadow and highlight areas in a photo.

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Top Features
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 introduces an array of innovative features to help users simplify the editing and processing of their digital photos. These new features expand the already impressive toolset contained in the previous version of the software.
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. Advanced users can fine-tune photos by using a histogram and separate controls for shadows, brightness, highlights, and saturation. Less experienced users can easily refine their photos by using the Suggest Settings feature of the Smart Photo Fix tool. The Express Lab also offers a toolset that lets users easily perform many common editing tasks, such as cropping and straightening photos and removing red-eye and blemishes. Users can also assign ratings to their photos, so they can quickly find their favorites.

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The Express Lab helps users quickly process large batches of photos.

Give it a try

Using the Express Lab
1 On the standard toolbar, click the Express Lab button 2 In the Express Lab, click Get Photos. 3 Navigate to a folder containing photos you want to edit, and click OK. 4 On the Express Lab toolbar, click any of the following tools to edit the photo: Straighten rotates a crooked photo to straighten it Crop trims or eliminates unwanted edges of an image Smart Photo Fix lets users remove color cast, brighten underexposed images, darken overexposed images, and adjust saturation Makeover provides five modes of cosmetic fixes, such as Blemish Fixer, Toothbrush, Eye Drop, Suntan, and Thinify Clone Brush removes flaws and objects by painting over them with another part of the image Red Eye quickly corrects the red-eye effect commonly seen in photos.
The Express Lab toolbar also contains buttons for deleting, viewing, rotating, and saving images. 5 To assign a rating to a photo, click the stars under the lower-right corner of the photo. 6 Click the Next Image or Previous Image through the photos in the folder. 7 Click Exit Express Lab to close the Express Lab. buttons to scroll

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.

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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

Thinify

Eye Drop
Blemish Fixer and Toothbrush

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Using Makeover Suite Tools
1 On the Tools toolbar, choose the Makeover tool 2 On the Tool Options palette, choose the Thinify 3 Type a value in the Strength control. Higher values compress more pixels in the horizontal axis. 4 Click the middle of a photo subject. The pixels compress on either side of the point you click. 5 On the Tool Options palette, choose the Blemish Fixer The cursor changes to concentric circles. 6 Adjust the Size control to the smallest size that allows the inner circle to enclose the blemish. The outer circle is for the material used to cover the blemish. 7 Type a value in the Strength control. Values range from 1 to 100. Higher values apply more of the source material (enclosed in the outer circle) to the blemish area (enclosed in the inner circle). 8 Click directly over the blemish. 9 On the Tool Options palette, choose the Eye Drop 10 Type a value in the Strength control. Higher values whiten more of the eye area but may spread the whitening beyond the affected area of the eye. 11 Zoom in as necessary, and then carefully click over the bloodshot portion of the eye. mode. mode. mode.

Object Remover

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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.
Users can access the Crop to New Image button on the Tool Options Palette or the floating toolbar for the Crop tool.
The Crop to New Image feature lets users quickly separate individual images from group scans.

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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 manualexposure adjustments.
The HDR Photo Merge feature helps users get the most out of their digital cameras.

Using HDR Photo Merge

1 Choose File dialog box. HDR Photo Merge to access the HDR Photo Merge
2 In the Load Images group box, click the Browse button, and navigate to the folder containing the bracketed photos. 3 Select the photos you want to merge, and click Open. 4 Click Align Images.

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5 In the Adjustments group box, drag the Brightness slider to adjust the overall brightness of the resulting photo, and drag the Clarify slider to adjust the overall clarity of the resulting photo. You can apply automatic adjustments based on the selected photos by clicking Suggest Settings. 6 Click OK.
Enhanced! Black and White Film Effect: Users can easily create dynamic black-and-white photos by simulating the effects of shooting using black-andwhite 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.
Using the Black and White Film Effect
1 Open an image file, choose Effects Photo Effects Black and White Film to access the Black and White Film dialog box. 2 In the Filter Color group box, drag in the color spectrum to set the desired RGB filter color. 3 In the Adjustments group box, drag the Brightness slider to adjust the converted images overall brightness, and drag the Clarify slider to adjust the converted images local contrast or snap. 4 Click OK.
Users can choose from an infinite range of color combinations.

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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.

By suggesting changes to users, the Smart Photo Fix feature takes the guesswork out of getting great image results.
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.
The Depth of Field Effect

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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 finetune 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 images 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 theyre 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.
Users can easily correct distorted images with Lens Distortion Correction filters.

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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.
Layer Styles lets users easily apply artistic effects to their images.

Using Layer Styles

1 First, create a graphic by clicking File New. , type X2, and click
2 On the Tools toolbar, choose the Text tool Apply.
3 On the Layers palette, double-click the layer containing the text. 4 In the Layer Properties dialog box, click the Layer Styles tab. 5 Mark any of the following check boxes: Reflection creates a reflection of the selected layer Outer Glow applies an outer glow around the selected layer Bevel applies a bevelled edge around the selected layer Emboss gives the selected layer an embossed look Inner Glow applies an inner glow within the selected layer

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Drop Shadow applies a drop shadow to the selected layer Mark the Layer check box to show the layer data with the effects applied. When unmarked, this check box lets you turn off the layer data and just show the effects. 6 Drag the Opacity and Size sliders, and choose a color to fine-tune the layer effects. 7 Click OK.
Film and Filters: Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 offers users a range of effects
inspired by classic film and filter types. Users can experiment with a variety of film-effect and filter-effect combinations to produce interesting, eye-catching results. Users can also simulate the effect of using color filters on the lens of a camera by applying a Creative Filter effect, or they can apply a Film Look to simulate the effect of using different types of film in a traditional camera.
Time Machine: The Time Machine offers users a tour of photographic history by letting them see what their photos would look like if they had been taken in another era. With a range of settings based on photo styles from the 1830s to the 1980s, users can easily send their photos back in time. A live preview lets users see the evolution of photography on a single image. 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

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of new picture frames and photo edges in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 offers users even more creative possibilities.

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Summary of New and Improved Features
The Express Lab lets users quickly fix all the photos in a folder without having to open each one. With advanced tools and one-click fixes, users dont sacrifice editing power for speed. Two new modes for the Makeover Tool let users improve how the subjects in their photos look. The Thinify mode helps people lose those pounds the camera sometimes adds, and the Eye Drop mode takes the red out of bloodshot eyes. HDR Photo Merge helps users make the most of their cameras autobracket feature, allowing them to merge photos with different exposure levels to create an image that retains every critical detail of the photos being combined. This feature includes an integrated Clarify control that applies automatic dodging and burning, so images keep their snap. Improved Black and White Film effect lets users create black-and-white photos by simulating the effects of shooting black-and-white film with colored filters. Users can now select from a virtually infinite range of color combinations. This feature also now includes an integrated Clarify control. The improved Save As command helps users quickly choose the file formats they use most often. The Auto-Preserve Originals feature ensures that users never have to worry about overwriting their original photos by automatically creating a backup copy one level down in the folder hierarchy of their computers. The Save for Office feature optimizes images for their intended use, ensuring that there are no file size, performance, or printing problems. The Crop to New Image feature is a great time-saver when extracting individual images from a group scan. With improved camera raw support, users who shoot in raw formats can choose from an expanded list of supported cameras. Visible Watermarks let users add a discreet mark to their photos to remind viewers who took the shot. Dynamic Language Switching lets users easily change the language theyre working in. Improved Layer Styles lets users easily experiment with and preview popular image effects. Reviewers Guide [ 23 ]

Whats Included in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2?

Applications

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2: Based on user feedback, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is a complete digital photography toolkit, offering easy-to-use, professional-quality image-editing tools and features. Getting Started with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2: Video tutorials on CD, a $49 value, from lynda.com, a leading provider of training materials for renowned software products. (English only) Corel MediaOne Plus: This $39 fully functional product is available free to Paint Shop Pro Photo customers via a special download. It provides everything users need to create unique multimedia shows, including transitions, background music, and motion effects. (This version does not include the ability to author DVDs with slideshows, and will be available for download beginning September 22, 2007.)

Content

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 provides hundreds of high-quality, easy-to-use creative extras, including the following: Picture Tubes: Click and paint with photos and creative pictures. Picture Frames: Easily add decorations and borders. Photo Edges: Apply a unique shape or a torn-edges look. Patterns: Paint with sophisticated colors and unique combinations; make your own backgrounds or scrapbook paper. Textures: Paint with any color, and then use a texture to add depth.

Bonus Content

Nik plug-In filter effects: From the recognized leader in digital photographic filters, these plug-ins offer features and functionality that are designed to make digital photographic enhancements and digital photography not only easier, but better. (English, German, French, and Spanish only) Zazzle: $25 coupon for online photo processing (U.S. and Canada only) Reviewers Guide [ 25 ]
Imagekind prints: $25 coupon for high-quality prints and poster art (U.S. and Canada only) SnapTotes bag: $25 coupon for leather bag with custom photo imprint (U.S. and Canada only) Carbonite backup service: Free trial of this fully automatic Internet backup service (U.S. and Canada only)

Printed Documentation

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 User Guide: An updated 144-page user guide describes common photo-correction and image-enhancement workflows. The printed user guide mirrors the workflow outlined in the Learning Center to help users quickly master the application.

Electronic Documentation

Help file: Users can easily access information on specific features and common tasks with a comprehensive index and full-text search. Users can also click links in dialog boxes and the Learning Center to get contextsensitive help when they need it. Learning Center palette: The award-winning Learning Center was designed to ensure that anyone can harness the power of advanced photo editing, regardless of their previous software experience. It builds user confidence by helping them complete tasks within seconds of launching Paint Shop Pro Photo, resulting in higher levels of satisfaction and enjoyment from the software. PDF version of the Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Help

Enterprise Level Support

This enhanced level of support is designed for corporate clients who require account management services and access to Corels most skilled support

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personnel. This option is typically selected by organizations that employ dedicated support professionals, have centralized technical management, or require specialized support. Corel's experienced support team of specialists deliver high-quality support and provide the resources necessary to maintain a mission-critical environment. Needs for your entire enterprise are addressed from integration issues, open document management API (ODMA), network configuration, thin-client platforms, large-scale network application rollouts and in-house developer requirements.

Professional Services

The Corel Professional Services team builds solutions for international market leaders in government and Fortune 1000 organizations, including aerospace, defense, manufacturing, utilities, retail, and financial services. The teams expertise resides in deploying new technology solutions, software deployment, application automation and third-party integration support, solution sets, and training.

Partnership Program

Designed with maximum flexibility to meet the needs of diverse range of partners, the Corel Partner Program offers unparalleled tools and support, including the ultimate information resource, Corel Connected.

Zoom-In Newsletter

A must-have for digital camera owners, this free monthly newsletter provides tutorials, quick tips, links to free content downloads, and user profiles that illustrate how people just like you are using Corel digital imaging software to create and share their photos. (U.S. and Canada only)

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About Corel
Corel is a leading developer of graphics, productivity, and digital media software, with more than 100 million users worldwide. The companys product portfolio includes some of the worlds most popular and widely recognized software brands, including CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Corel Painter, Corel DESIGNER, Corel WordPerfect Office, WinZip, and iGrafx. In 2006, Corel acquired InterVideo, makers of WinDVD, and Ulead, a leading developer of video, imaging, and DVD authoring software. Designed to help people become more productive and express their creative potential, Corels full-featured software products set a higher standard for value in being easier to learn and use. The industry has responded with hundreds of awards recognizing Corels leadership in software innovation, design, and value. Corels products are sold in more than 75 countries through a wellestablished network of international resellers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, online providers, and Corels global Web sites. With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, the company has major offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, and Japan. Corels stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CREL and on the TSX under the symbol CRE.

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