Corel MediaOne Plus (DVD Maker not included)
This fast, fun and easy photo & video software lets you turn pictures and video clips into slide shows, and create collages, calendars and album pages.
Express Lab
This super-fast Photo Fixing mode will save you hours. Now you can edit dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. Breeze through folders full of photos to perform common photo-editing tasks, without having to wait for each individual photo to open. For example, crop, rotate, remove red eye and straighten an entire folder full of photos at once.
Graphite Workspace Theme
As soon as you launch the program, your new workspace appears, featuring a darker theme that makes your photos really stand out. For people who prefer the classic interface, switch back with just a few clicks.
HDR Photo Merge
Easily create photos that give you full detail in the shadows and highlights. HDR Photo Merge helps you combine 2 or more photos taken at different exposures, then automatically dodge and burn to bring out the contrast.
Layer Styles
Easily add special effects, such as drop shadows, embossing, outer and inner glows, bevels and reflections, to your text, photos and creative projects. The best part is, if you make any changes to the layer, the effect is automatically changed to match.
Visible Watermarks
Whether you're a professional photographer or someone who wants to share your photos online, it's a good idea to add a discrete custom watermark to remind those viewing your pictures who the photographer was.
Picture Tubes & Picture Frames
Get creative with over 30 brand new, professionally designed Picture Tubes and 30 new Picture Frames, including an exclusive new set for people who upgrade.
A longtime user favorite, Picture Tubes let you paint on photos with a collection of professionally designed artistic elements. For example, add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting or fill an aquarium with fish.
Black & White Film Conversion
Create dynamic black & white photos by simulating the effects of shooting black & white film with colored filters.
Now you can select from a virtually infinite range of color combinations. This gives you full creative control of the Channel Mixer command, but in a far simpler interface. Plus, you can adjust brightness and apply Clarify to further enhance the black & white effect.
Makeover Tools
Quickly and easily touch up the appearance of your subjects to help everyone look their best in photos. This professional-strength tool contains the following modes:
- Thinify – make people look thinner with just a click
- Eye Drop – take the red out of irritated, bloodshot eyes
- Blemish Fixer – remove facial blemishes
- Suntan – add color to pale, washed-out skin
- Toothbrush – quickly whiten discolored teeth
Crop to New Image
This tool is ideal for people who scan multiple images at once. It automatically creates a new file from the cropped area and keeps the original full scan open so you can easily separate individual image files from the group scan.
Ultimate Edition Only Features
Camera Raw Support
For those who shoot in raw format, support for more than 250 cameras is available.
Background Remover
This new plug-in lets you easily change the background in your photos to create unique and exciting effects. Just cut out part of an image, remove it from the background and place it on a different setting. You can even preserve fine image details like strands of hair or smoke.
Creative Content Pack
Ideal for scrapbooking and other creative photo projects, this bonus pack contains 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes that allow you to enhance any image with fun graphics.
Certified for Microsoft Windows Vista
Software that's Certified for Windows Vista has undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security.
Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4
This fun program lets you turn a photo into a unique work of art in just 3 easy steps:
- Choose a photo and the painting style you want to apply.
- Let the Smart Stroke painting technology create a stunning painting.
- Touch up your masterpiece by hand if desired.
Media Recovery Software
New Media Recovery software included with Paint Shop Pro X2 Ultimate can recover images, movies and sound files from memory cards, even if they have been reformatted. It is compatible with virtually all media card formats.
USB Flash Drive
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate comes with a 2 GB USB flash drive for storing and transferring your digital photos and files.
View, organise and edit photos quickly
- Rotate, resize, crop, straighten and remove red eye fast in Express Lab mode
- Import photos automatically, including raw images
- View thumbnails of all images on your hard drive
- Tag photos with keywords for easy reference
- Search for photos by filename, folder name, keyword tag, caption text or image metadata
Express Lab
This easy photo fixing mode helps you view and correct dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. The Express Lab lets you edit photos without opening each image file individually, so your workflow runs seamlessly!
- Get photos from your PC, camera or scanner automatically
- Adjust photo details, such as brightness, shadows, highlights and saturation
- Rotate, resize, crop, straighten and remove red eye
- Retouch and restore to remove flaws
Autopreserve Originals
Automatically store a copy of your original photo when saving an edited version.
Crop to New Image
Quickly separate multiple images that you scanned at the same time. This tool automatically creates a new file from the cropped area and keeps the original scan open so you can easily separate individual image files from the group scan.
Camera Raw Support
Download photos from your camera to computer effortlessly, including raw image formats produced by many digital cameras. 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.
Support for Over 50 Formats
View photos and video clips in more than 50 file formats. Easily import files and ensure accurate color quality for your images.
Share Photos Instantly
Email photos or slide shows to family and friends.
Retouch your photos like a pro
- Retouch with unique makeover tools to look your best in photos you print or post online
- Whiten teeth, smooth wrinkles and remove blemishes with a few clicks
- Edit quickly with easy tools
- Cover distractions or remove unwanted objects
- Change the color of anything in your photo
- Remove noise, grain or discolorations
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.
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.
Remove Digital Camera Noise
"Noise" artifacts are small specks of color that interfere with the clarity of your digital image.
- One-Step Noise Removal - smooth photos with a single click
- Digital Camera Noise Removal - precisely control how these same corrections are applied
Straighten Tool
Fix crooked photos taken at awkward angles.
Correct Perspective
Get rid of unwanted distortions by changing perspective.
Repair Damaged Photos
Restore old, damaged photos by removing scratches and fading.
Remove Distracting Objects
Improve photos by covering up unwanted background objects, such as lamp posts, trees and buildings.
Enhance with professional tools
- Combine exposures to get full details in highlights and shadows
- Simulate black & white film or convert to sepia
- Adjust levels, curves or histogram settings
- Fix brightness, color, contrast, saturation and sharpness
- Experiment with more advanced editing tools by fine-tuning details on your own
HDR Photo Merge
Merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures or with different brightness/contract 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 images by simulating the look of taking photos using a colored lens filter.
Layers and Adjustment Layers
Maintain image quality when applying changes to color or tone. Edit photos with precision by adding multiple adjustment layers to test various color corrections or to see how corrections look when they're combined.
Adjust Levels & Curves
Change photo exposure using advanced features, including Levels, Curves or Histogram Adjustment tools.
Sharpen Out-of-Focus Pictures
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.
Depth of Field Effect
Draw attention to a specific area of an image. Depth of Field applies focus to a region of your photo while applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. This allows you to create an effect in seconds that usually requires precise manual lens aperture adjustments.
Professional-Level Options
Work with a variety of advanced features, including 16-bits-per-channel editing, color management settings and raw file conversion.
Visible Watermarks
Take credit for your photos by easily adding a visible watermark to label your work.
Create and share one-of-a-kind photo projects
- Give photos a unique look with vintage and artistic effects
- Simulate the look of film using vivid, glamour and vibrant foliage filters
- Decorate your favorite photos with Picture Frames and Picture Tubes
- Use layers to add drop shadows, glows, reflections and embossing to your images
- Design scrapbook pages, cards and collages to share with friends and family
Layer Styles
Easily apply artistic effects to individual layers, such as drop shadows, embossing and reflections.
Picture Tubes
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 20 new 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.
System Requirements
- Windows Vista or Windows XP, with latest service packs installed
- 512 MB RAM (768 MB recommended)
- 768 MB RAM required if using Windows Vista
- 1 GHz processor (2 GHz recommended)
- 1.5 GB hard disk space
- 24-bit color display, 1024x768 resolution
- Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or higher (included in Windows Vista and XP)
DVD drive
Additional requirements for select features
Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, WordPerfect MAIL or other MAPI-compliant email software (to email from the product)
Apple QuickTime 7 or higher (to play .mov movie files).