Ottawa, Ontario - Corel has released Corel PaintShop Pro X4, the latest version of its photo-editing software.
PaintShop Pro X4 includes more than 75 new and enhanced features designed to meet the needs of today's photographers. The new edition offers new photo-editing features, improvements in speed and performance, user interface enhancements, and convenient ways to share through social media.
Corel PaintShop Pro X4 offers advancements in professional editing power, performance, usability, and sharing. Feedback from the PaintShop Pro community helped isolate the development priorities for this release and directly influenced new features and enhancements.
HDR Tools - Completely redesigned to bring you the latest technology in high dynamic range photo production, the new HDR module provides tools to merge photos and create picture-perfect exposures with stunning contrast. With built-in presets to get you started, images look their best in no time. This module also saves you time with the option to process large batches of HDR exposure brackets quickly.
Photo Blend - Create the perfect composition by easily selecting people, objects or areas from a series of images. The Photo Blend tool is a new and powerful option for photographers who want to produce compelling group shots or creative scenes where one person appears in multiple poses.
Fill Light and Clarity - The Fill Light tool lets you work quickly to bring out underexposed areas without affecting the overall brightness of your image, while the Clarity tool makes it easy to enhance subtle yet important details.
Selective Focus - Enhance the depth of field in any image or easily create the look of miniatures and small-scale models with the new Selective Focus tool.
Vignette Tools -Often used in wedding and portrait photography, the Vignette tool provides a classic portraiture style by applying a soft, faded border around the outer edge of photos.
Performance - With new performance updates and optimizations, Corel PaintShop Pro X4 is faster than ever before with speed increases of over 50% on launch and accelerated performance on popular effects such as Vibrancy, Noise Removal and Depth of Field compared to past versions.
Full Screen Preview - Fast, full-screen preview allows you to efficiently review your photos and use the entire screen to quickly view, rate, and rotate your images and discard those that don't make the cut.
Workspace - A redesign featuring new tabbed workspaces allows you to move easily between photo workflows. The Manage workspace gives you all the power to review, tag, rate and organize your photos. The new Adjust workspace puts commonly-used editing tools at your fingertips, while the Edit workspace provides you with a full range of professional-level editing tools.
User Interface Updates - Corel PaintShop Pro X4 offers numerous UI updates throughout the product designed to help photographers and graphic enthusiasts alike be as productive as possible. These include the Adjust workspace for quick and powerful edits; the ability to access the organizer in all workspaces; dual monitor support for enhanced efficiency; additional Adjustment layers; an updated Curves dialog; easy-to-read Histogram tools; and enhanced metadata support.
Built-in social media sharing - For when your shots are picture-perfect, tools integrated into the organizer allow you to quickly share your images on Facebook, Flickr and resize "on the fly" for emailing.
Corel PaintShop Pro X4 is available now in markets worldwide in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Traditional Chinese, and Polish with additional languages to follow. North American pricing is $79 (US and CDN) for the full version and $59 (US and CDN) for upgrade customers. Commercial and education volume licenses are also available.
To download a free fully-functional trial version, visit
www.corel.com/paintshop
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Launching simultaneously with the latest release of PaintShop Pro X4 is the Ultimate version of the product. Offering additional pro-level tools including NikR Color Efex ProT 3.0 Filters, royalty-free images from Fotolia (7-day subscription period), a custom photo book from BlurbR and a premium collection of Picture TubesT, Corel PaintShop Pro X4 Ultimate provides exceptional value and countless creative possibilities. Corel PaintShop Pro X4 Ultimate is available now in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Traditional Chinese with additional languages to follow. North American pricing is $99 (US and CDN) for full and $79 (US and CDN) for upgrade customers.