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Corel
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385362
Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3, (Win)    
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Overview

Photo-editing program
If creating great pictures is your passion, Corel® PaintShop Photo™ Pro X3 is the photo-editing program for you. Featuring a brand-new RAW Lab and easy batch photo processing, it’s the only advanced photo-editing software to combine photo management, creative projects, photo sharing and even HD video slideshows in one package. It's everything you need to get professional-looking results you’ll be proud to share. Ideal for DSLR cameras!


PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is the most rewarding way to enhance your photos and create professional-looking images. Now with a complete RAW workflow, this photo-editing program lets you manage, adjust, edit and share your digital photos—all in one place. Accelerate the way you organize, rate, tag and sort with new photo management tools. Make automatic fixes in the enhanced Express Lab, or go deep with a full set of advanced editing tools. Then upload to Flickr®, Facebook® and YouTube™, create high-quality photo books and projects, print, email or back up photos on disc. It’s your entire photo workflow in one high-performance package.

• New! RAW Lab – manually adjust groups of RAW photos during the loading process
• Enhanced! Express Lab – quickly fix common flaws in this speed-editing mode
• New! Advanced editing tools – edit fast with Smart Carver, Vibrancy and more
• New! HD photo and video – import and export HD video
• New! Integrated projects – create photo books, HD slideshows, cards and more
• Enhanced! Photo sharing – email, print online or at home, and send directly to Facebook, YouTube and Flickr

Bonus! Corel® Painter™ Photo Essentials 4: Turn photos into paintings in three easy steps!

Organize & Manage
• View and organize all your photos and videos in one place
• Use thumbnails and previews to select photos fast
• Catalog, search, rate and tag photos to quickly find your favorites
• Capture adjustments from one photo, then easily apply the changes to multiple others

Combine photos and HD video
• Import and export HD video
• Use high-quality templates to combine photo and video projects
• Create and share slideshows using HD video clips from your DSLR camera
• Capture a single frame from your HD video

Edit & Retouch
• Get full RAW support, including the latest RAW camera formats
• Use easy batch processing to edit multiple photos at once—without complicated scripts
• Edit fast with new, advanced tools like Smart Carver, Vibrancy and Object Extractor
• Fly through common editing tasks in the Express Lab

Create & Share
• Upload photos and videos directly to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube
• Back up photos and videos on CD or DVD
• Quickly share photos by email with automatic photo resizing
• Print right from your PC or order prints online*
• Create professional-looking photo books, calendars, collages, cards and slideshows


What's New
This is a must-have upgrade for PaintShop users and DSLR camera owners! The fastest version yet, this photo-editing software features exciting new professional-quality features, like the Smart Carver, a new RAW Lab, easy batch processing, and a photo Organizer. Learn how to speed up your entire workflow and get the best-quality results.

Improved digital workflow
• Enhanced! Photo Organizer: Customize your digital workflow with new photo management capabilities. Use multiple views, including thumbnails and image previews, to quickly select photos.
• New! RAW Lab, Image Quality and Control: Make RAW adjustments during the loading process and work with even more RAW camera formats—faster than ever before.
• New! Easy Batch Processing: Make adjustments to one photo, then easily apply the same changes to multiple other photos right in the enhanced Organizer.
• Enhanced! Speed and Performance: Get more speed and editing horsepower with more multi-threading support for multi-core processors.
• Enhanced! Express Lab: Apply common edits in just one click. Remove noise, sharpen images, and quickly adjust contrast, local tone mapping and more.

New advanced photo-editing tools
• New! Smart Carver: Seamlessly remove objects from an image with professional quality. The Smart Carver also lets you expand or contract objects without distortion.
• New! Vibrancy: Boost color in the least saturated areas of a photo without affecting the rest of the image.
• New! Object Extractor: The integrated Object Extractor isolates an object—even challenging cases such as flyaway hair and fuzzy pet fur—so it can be copied to a new background or a new background can be pasted behind it.
• New! On-Image Text Editing: With the updated text engine, it's easier, faster and more natural to apply text to an image. Adjust font, color, placement, position, size and wrapping of the text in context of the image. Reselect the text on the image and continue typing, or apply text on a path.
• New! HD Video Slideshows: As an increasing number of DSLR cameras capture HD video, PaintShop Photo Pro now offers tools that let you combine photo and video projects. Create HD slideshows and movies of your photos and videos, all with the same tool.
• New! Windows® 7 Compatibility: PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is fully compatible with Windows 7, as well as Windows® XP and Windows Vista®. Take advantage of new Windows 7 speed and performance to experience a whole new level of creativity.
• 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:
1. Choose a photo and the painting style you want to apply.
2. Let the Smart Stroke painting technology create a stunning painting.
3. Touch up your masterpiece by hand if desired.
• Bonus! KPT® Plug-in Filters: A natural addition to your photo-editing software, KPT plug-in filters help you quickly create remarkable image transformations and original effects. PaintShop Photo Pro X3 includes KPT® Goo, KPT® LensFlare, KPT® Projector and KPT® Equalizer.

Built-in photo projects and sharing
• Easy Photo Sharing: Quickly share photos and videos directly on Flickr®, Facebook® and YouTube™. You can also email, print at home or order prints online*.
• Built-in Photo Projects: Using the new Project Creator, its fast and simple to make great-looking photo books, HD slideshows, collages, cards and more.
*Online printing services are available in select countries only and are subject to additional charges.


Features
• The best photo-editing software for DSLR cameras, PaintShop Photo Pro puts the fun back into digital photography. Make your workflow fast and easy so you can create professional-looking photos you'll be proud of.
• Enhanced! Photo Organizer: Customize your digital workflow with new photo management capabilities in PaintShop Photo Pro X3's Photo Organizer. Use thumbnails and image previews to quickly select your photos.
• New! Easy Batch Processing: Make adjustments to one photo, then easily apply the same changes to multiple other photos. Edit one, apply to many, right from the Organizer.
• Enhanced! Express Lab: The new interface makes photo editing faster than ever. Preview photos and videos or make changes in this speed-editing mode. Quickly adjust contrast, apply local tone mapping, remove noise and sharpen images. You can also adjust levels, clarity and white balance, batch-edit multiple photos and more.
• Auto-preserve Originals: Automatically store a copy of your original photo when saving an edited version.
• Camera RAW Support: Make RAW adjustments during the loading process and work with even more RAW camera formats—faster than ever before. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility, without overwriting the original RAW files.

Do more with advanced photo-editing tools
• New! Smart Carver: Seamlessly remove objects from an image with professional quality. Smart Carver also lets you expand or contract objects without distortion.
• New! Vibrancy: Boost color in the least saturated areas of a photo without affecting the rest of the image.
• New! Object Extractor: The integrated Object Extractor isolates an object—even challenging cases such as flyaway hair and fuzzy pet fur—so it can be copied to a new background or a new background can be pasted behind it.
• Depth of Field Effect: Depth of Field allows you to create effects that you can't do with a camera lense alone. Draw attention to a specific area of an image by focusing on one region and applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. Create an effect in seconds that usually requires precise manual lens aperture adjustments.
• New! On-Image Text Editing: With the updated text engine, it's easier, faster and more natural to apply text to an image. Adjust font, color, placement, position, size and wrapping of the text in context of the image. Reselect the text on the image and continue typing, or apply text on a path. on a path.
• New! HD Video Slideshows: As an increasing number of DSLRs capture HD video, PaintShop Photo Pro now offers tools that let you combine photo and video projects. Create HD slideshows and movies of your photos and videos, all with the same tool.
• New! Windows® 7 Compatibility: PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is fully compatible with Windows 7, as well as Windows® XP and Windows Vista®. Take advantage of new Windows 7 speed and performance to experience a whole new level of creativity.
• HDR Photo Merge: Quickly merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures, or with different brightness and contrast settings, to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows.
• Black & White Photos: Create dynamic black & white, sepia and antique-style images by simulating the look of taking photos using a colored lens filter.
• Layers and Adjustment Layers: Nondestructively adjust the color or tone of your images without actually modifying the pixels on each layer. You can also add multiple adjustment layers to an image to test various color corrections or see how several corrections look when they're combined.
• Adjust Levels & Curves: Precisely adjust tone, color balance and exposure with exceptional control. The Curves dialog box includes a histogram, so you can easily and intuitively fine-tune your work. Three automatic settings let less-experienced users optimize the contrast and color levels in images with just a few clicks.
• Advanced Sharpen Tools: Turn fuzzy photos into crisp images, without compressing or degrading the quality of the image.
• Fix Lens Distortions: Easily remove fish-eye, barrel and other lens distortions.
• Visible Watermarks: Protect and take credit for your photos by easily adding a visible watermark to label your work.

Fix it fast in Express Lab
• Don't let the small stuff slow you down! Enjoy one-click access to common photo fixes.
• Learning Center: The award-winning Learning Center empowers anyone to harness the power of advanced photo editing, regardless of your previous software experience. It builds your confidence and makes it easier to develop your skills by helping you complete tasks within seconds of launching PaintShop Pro Photo.
• Makeover Tools: Make sure the people in your photos look their best with tools that are fun and easy to use. Help your subjects look thinner in seconds, whiten bloodshot eyes, smooth wrinkles, paint on a tan and remove blemishes.
• Enhanced! Remove Digital Camera Noise: Remove "noise" artifacts that interfere with the clarity of your digital image—faster than ever! One-Step Noise Removal smooths photos with a single click. Digital Camera Noise Removal gives you precise control over how these corrections are applied.
• Smart Photo Fix: Instantly correct lighting and color problems with automated tools, or make manual corrections on your own.
• Red Eye Removal: Eliminate red eye in one click or use advanced red-eye removal that even works on pets.
• Color Changer: Easily change the color of objects in your digital photos, such as clothing, walls and furniture. Rather than simply replacing a color, the Color Changer detects and analyzes variations in brightness, then makes the necessary adjustments to produce a realistic effect.

Get creative with projects and photo sharing: Creating photo books and slideshows
• Enhanced! Built-in Creative Projects: PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is the only pro-quality photo enthusiast software package to so closely integrate creative projects with photo editing. The new Project Creator is a fast and simple way to make a great-looking photo book, collages, cards and more—all in addition to PaintShop's easy online sharing options.
• New! Easy Photo Sharing: Share photos and videos where and how you want, using email, Flickr®, Facebook® and YouTube™. Print at home, order prints online*, email or quickly burn a DVD to enjoy on your TV.
• Layer Styles: Easily apply artistic effects to individual layers, such as drop shadows, embossing and reflections.
• PictureTubes™: Decorate your photos with 30 new sets of professionally designed artistic elements. A longtime user favorite, this tool lets you paint on photos with ready-made art that features a variety of themes. For example, add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting or fill an aquarium with fish.
• Picture Frames and Photo Edges: Easily add eye-catching final touches to your images with Picture Frames. A variety of styles and the ability to edit give you more creative possibilities.
• Time Machine: Go back in time and give photos a retro look using effects that replicate the unique appearance of photos taken in the 1800s, 1950s and other points in history.
• Black & White Photos: Easily covert your color photos to black & white, mimic infrared film or add a touch of class by making them sepia-toned.
• Special Film Effects: Produce interesting, eye-catching photos with a range of effects inspired by classic film and filter types. Simulate the unique look of slide or portrait film, mimic the effect of using color filters on your camera lens, or apply a Film Look to model the effect of using different types of film in a traditional camera.
• Captions: Add shapes or words to your photos to add creativity, raise impact, or note important dates and events.


Minimum System Requirements
• Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® or Windows® XP with latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
• 1.5 GHz processor (2 GHz or higher recommended)
• 1 GB of RAM (2 GB or higher recommended)
• 3 GB of free hard drive space
• Minimum display resolution: 1024 x 768 (24-bit color)
• Windows-compatible DVD-ROM drive for installation
• Internet connection required for online features
Note: Painter Photo Essentials included with PaintShop Pro Photo X3 is also Windows 7 compatible

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