Description:
Paint Shop Pro is one of the most popular image editing packages in the world, due in large part to its magical combination of low price and powerful features. Paint Shop Pro is a fully featured digital darkroom in the same mold as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo-Paint. Version 7 adds a raft of new features for retouching digital images, creating business graphics, and producing interactive Web graphics. Paint Shop Pro's vector shapes--introduced in version 6--have been enhanced and now support gradients, textures, and patterns on stroke and fill commands. New image editing features include auto-enhance, which adjusts color balance, brightness, saturation, and hue to improve picture quality with a single click. New filters for noise, scratch, and dust removal, together with automatic red-eye removal, make picture restoration easier than ever. You don't need a separate vector application to create business graphics--Paint Shop Pro's enhanced vector-drawing tools provide everything you need. New align, distribute, arrange, group, and resize commands, plus snap-to grids and guides, make for quick and accurate positioning of graphic elements. And there are more than 20 new artistic and lighting special effects with which to experiment. This special 10th-anniversary edition of Paint Shop Pro is filled with more than $100 worth of free software, filters, and images, including Jasc Media Center Plus 3.1, Flaming Pear Virtual Painter, and Alien Skin Eye Candy. Webmasters will appreciate Paint Shop Pro's new Web features, which include image slicing, image maps, JavaScript rollovers, and file optimization with browser preview. As usual, Jasc's excellent Animation Shop 3.04 is included, with which you can create GIF animations from layer-based Paint Shop Pro images. Productivity and ease-of-use enhancements, along with a new getting-started guide, help to make this one of the best-value power packages for image editing available. --Ken McMahon
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