Corel PaintShop Pro Photo - X2 Reviewer’s Guide
Reviewer’s Guide
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Contents
1 | Introducing Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 ..................1
2 | Customer Profile .............................................................5
Aspiring Photographers ..................................................................................... 5
Workplace Communicators ................................................................................. 6
3 | Top Features .....................................................................7
Process Your Photos Like the Pros ...................................................................... 7
Discover Editing Tools You Can’t 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 .....................23
5 | What’s 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
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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.
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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 camera’s
auto-bracket feature to create images that retain all the detail of shadow
and highlight areas in a photo.
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Customer Profiles
As the use of digital cameras has increased, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 has
kept pace, giving digital photographers of all experience levels everything
they need to process, edit, and enhance their work. With its unique
combination of straightforward tools, advanced photo-editing features, and
groundbreaking learning resources, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 lets users create
impressive results immediately.
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 also provides the breadth and depth of professional
features, so users can grow into the program as their curiosity and experience
develop. These time-saving features include automatic and one-step fixes for
some of the most common digital photo flaws. Instead of shackling creativity
with steep learning curves and restrictive workflows, Paint Shop Pro Photo
gives the user total freedom to experiment and unlock the full potential of
every photograph.
Aspiring Photographers
Aspiring photographers consider photography an art form, rather than just a
means of capturing events. They are serious about photography as a strong
hobby or even a part-time business.
These users care about the quality of their images and about improving them
through digital editing. They are often considered to be photo experts by
family and friends, and they become the group photographer.
Aspiring photographers generally own advanced equipment, such as a DSLR
and special lenses, and are likely to use manual controls and camera raw
formats. They are prolific shooters and need tools that allow them to
efficiently process large numbers of photos.
In many cases, these users are new to digital photography and want tools
that are easy to learn, but they don’t want to settle for the limited toolset of
a “lite edition” or “elements version” that they may later outgrow.
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Workplace Communicators
Workers in a wide range of fields — from technical writers and architects to real
estate agents and legal professionals — are using graphics more than ever in
their day-to-day work. Images help them to communicate more effectively by
overcoming language barriers and clarifying ideas that text alone can’t fully
explain. These professionals use graphics to improve their company’s image and
leave a lasting impression with customers and employees alike.
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 includes a powerful image-editing toolset that’s
intuitive and easy-to-learn, so office workers can start using the application
immediately. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 offers value-minded organizations
affordable and flexible licensing, easy deployment, and compatibility with a
wide range of graphic file formats. In addition, the application can be easily
customized to suit an individual company’s needs.
For years, Paint Shop Pro has been the preferred image-editing tool of
companies worldwide in industries ranging from automotive and aerospace to
energy. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 expands its appeal to multinational businesses
by offering dynamic language switching, which lets users quickly and easily
change the language of the application. As the corporate world becomes
increasingly global and multilingual in outlook, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is
keeping pace by offering versions in a wide variety of languages — English,
German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Swedish, Finnish, Korean,
Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Polish, Czech, and Russian.
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