Manufacturer's Description
Advanced tools for advanced imaginations.Your creativity has no limits, neither should your software. Paint Shop Pro continues to set the standard for affordable, professional image editing. Version 9 builds on Paint Shop Pro's legacy of creative innovation with a new suite of art media features, professional photo editing tools, and precision graphic design capabilities.
It's time to see what creativity without limits can be.
Photo Editing
Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter scans photos and removes image noise while intelligently preserving image textures.
Customise noise removal by defining specific regions or colour ranges, then save results to presets for later use with photos from the same camera.
Chromatic Aberration Removal Filter eliminates the coloured glow that often appears in high-contrast areas of digital photographs.
Fill Flash Filter corrects the underexposure of shadows. The backlighting filter compensates for overexposed areas.
Raw camera images - Paint Shop Pro 9 includes integrated support for raw camera images (digital negatives) from several popular camera models. Set custom white balance, exposure and sharpening levels when converting raw camera images for use in Paint Shop Pro.Digital Art
Art Media tools include Oil Brush, Chalk, Pastel, Crayon, Colored Pencil, and Marker.
The Palette Knife and Smear Tool realistically mix paints on the canvas. The Art Eraser provides an easy way to remove paint from the canvas.
A Mixer Palette provides an offcanvas area to experiment and mix custom colours together.
Art Media Layers allow users to adjust the canvas texture, lighting, and paint wetness properties of their artwork.
Use Image Tracing options as an easy way to paint a photograph or other image using realistic brush strokes.Graphic Design
Rectangle and Ellipse Tools simplify buttons, banners, and other custom graphics. The Rectangle Tool gives full control over rounded corners for custom buttons.
The Symmetric Shape Tool allows users to create polygons and stars then edit them into custom artistic shapes. Users can edit shape properties at any time, not just at creation.
The Text Tool features vertical text layout options and new anti-alias rendering choices that render cleaner text at smaller font sizes.
A simplified Pen Tool makes it easier than ever to add lines and curves to graphics.
The new Displacement Map Filter creates custom two- or three-dimensional surface effects for graphics based on an underlying image.
Users can add spin, twist, and zoom blur effects to images with the Radial Blur Filter.Productivity
The History Palette tracks each command appliedto an image, making it easy to manage complex editing projects.
Powerful Selective Undo functionality allows users to easily undo any individual editing step in a document's history. Select and save history steps to the clipboard to use as scripts on another image.
Resource Categorisation: Users can now organise their Paint Shop Pro resource files by projects or subjects in flexible resource categories.
Text Options in the print layout make it easier than ever to add captions and titles to photo layouts. Add custom text or use saved Image Information to describe photos and graphics.
A new Information Window in the browser allows users to view image details, creator information, and EXIF data for any selected image. Sort images in the Browser using EXIF data to find specific photos.
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