Reviewer’s Guide
Copyright 2006 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI Reviewer’s Guide Protected by U.S. Patents 5652880; 5347620; 5767860; 6195100; 6385336; 6552725; 6657739; 6731309; 6825859; 6633305; Patents Pending. Product specifications, pricing, packaging, technical support and information (“specifications”) refer to the retail English version only. The specifications for all other versions (including other language versions) may vary.
Contents 1 | Introducing Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI ...................1 2 | Customer Profile .............................................................3 Photo Hobbyists .................................................................................................. 3 Photo Project Enthusiasts ................................................................................... 3 Professional Photographers ...............................................................................
1 Introducing Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI continues the tradition of providing easyto-use, professional-quality image-editing software at an affordable price. With the versatile new features and enhancements based on extensive user feedback, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo is the perfect choice for everyone — from budding digital camera enthusiasts to professional photographers.
Shop Pro Photo also gives users the ability to automate the image-editing commands they use most often, saving them time and effort. Fastest Route to Professional Quality The ease of use that separates Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo from the competition doesn’t come at the expense of the total control for more sophisticated image editing that is demanded by professional photographers.
2 Customer Profile As the use of digital cameras has increased, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI has kept pace to give digital photographers of all experience levels everything they need to edit, enhance, organize, and share their work. With its unique combination of straightforward tools, advanced photo-editing features, and groundbreaking learning resources, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI lets users create impressive results immediately.
explosion in the field of digital camera technology, more people are exploring the realm of digital arts and crafts. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo lets users engage in creative projects, such as scrapbooking, photo restoration, and image enhancement. In addition, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo includes an impressive collection of graphics, templates, picture frames, and digital arts tools, so users can personalize their projects with a wide range of simple creative.
3 What’s Included with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI? Applications • Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI: Based on user feedback, Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI is a complete digital photography toolkit, offering easy-to-use, professional-quality image-editing tools and features. • Corel® Snapfire™ Plus SE: a 30-day preview of Corel Snapfire Plus features.
Electronic Documentation • Help file • Learning Center palette: The Learning Center was designed to ensure that anyone can harness the power of advanced photo editing, regardless of their previous software experience. It builds user confidence by helping them complete tasks within seconds of launching Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction and enjoyment from the software.
4 Top Features Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI carries on where the last version left off by offering affordable, powerful, professional-grade tools and features. Photo enthusiasts — ranging from professional photographers to digital camera newcomers — can take their projects to a higher level with a toolset that yields astonishing results yet is easy to learn. Photo Organization Built Right In There’s much more to Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo than powerful image-editing tools and features.
Give it a try • Image name, Image date, Size in bytes, File type, Tag, or Rating 5 From the center drop-list, select the desired search rules that further refine the search. 6 In the right side of the search rule area, enter the final search criteria, and click Search to view the thumbnails. The Organizer is a one-stop photo-management center. New! Quick Review: Using slide shows is a great way to share photos, and the Quick Review feature makes it simple to manage slide shows.
Information panel. Users can also rate their photos, as well as add keywords and dates to facilitate image searching. New! Photo Downloader: When users of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI or Corel Snapfire Plus SE plug devices such as cameras or card readers into their computers, the Corel Photo Downloader can automatically download photos. Corel Photo Downloader remembers which photos have already been downloaded, and users can easily view their most recent downloads.
Essential Photo Tools For Everyday Jobs Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo is renowned for being user-friendly, and that’s because user feedback has always played a huge role in the program’s development. From requesting one-click automatic fixes that take the guesswork out of image correction to insisting on advanced tools to meet the exacting standards in digital photography, the user has spoken, and Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo has responded.
Smart Photo Fix helps users quickly correct their photos. Enhanced! Curves and Levels Dialog Boxes: The Curves and Levels features in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI are controls that you’d expect to find only in complicated, high-priced image-editing software. The Curves and Levels dialog boxes have been overhauled to give users exceptional control over some of the most critical imaging adjustments.
Before Before After After The Red Eye Tool helps users salvage great photos. Clone Tool: The Clone tool lets users cover flaws in their photos by copying detail from a neighboring area. Users simply choose a source location and then draw over the flawed area of their image. The flaw is replaced with detail from the source location. Versatile Image Rotation: The JPEG file format is one of the most widely used among photographers, digital artists, and photo hobbyists.
allows users to correct the darker, underexposed areas. The Backlighting feature does the same with bright, overexposed areas of a photo. Before After Enhanced! Raw Camera File Support: Users can open and edit raw files from leading digital cameras. Color Management: The Color Management engine lets users read and save color profile data in their files, which ensures that on-screen colors match printed colors.
the new color to produce a realistic effect. Give it a try Recoloring image areas 1 From the Tools toolbar, choose the Color Changer tool . You may want to create a selection before you choose the Color Changer tool. Creating a selection may improve the results if the area to be recolored is a specific component, such as an article of clothing, or a single color that appears elsewhere in the image. You can use one of the selection tools to select the object or region to be recolored.
Give it a try 2 In the Depth of Field dialog box, choose one of the following Area of Focus selection tools, and drag in the Before pane. • Circular — lets you create a round selection • Freehand — lets you create an irregularly shaped selection by dragging around an area to create a closed shape • Rectangular — lets you create a rectangular selection 3 Move the Blur slider to adjust the amount of blur applied to the area outside the selection.
Users can apply Skin Smoothing to make the subjects of their photos look their best. Makeover Tools: Many photos are taken at special occasions where everyone wants to put their best face forward. To that end, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo includes Makeover tools that let users quickly and easily touch up the subjects in their photos. These professional-strength tools include the Blemish Remover, the Teeth Whitener, and the Suntan Brush.
Before After New! Corel Painter & Corel Painter Essentials Compatibility: Corel® Painter™ and Corel® Painter™ Essentials are renowned among digital artists, photo hobbyists, and professional photographers for their amazing ability to simulate a wide range of art tools. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI now supports RIFF files, the native file format for both Corel Painter and Corel Painter Essentials.
unwanted or difficult-to-clone portions of images and fills in the removed detail with portions of the remaining photo. Before After Unique Special Effects Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo offers an array of graphics tools and creative effects that help users transform their photos into something truly unique. While it’s fun to correct the color and adjust the objects in photos, there’s much more that users can do with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo.
Give it a try • Box Camera — Box cameras were popular from 1900 to the 1960s. The simplicity and portability of the camera allowed anyone to take photos. • Early Color — Autochrome was a popular method of producing early color photographs, which were characterized by soft colors and a slightly grainy quality. • Cross Process — Cross-processing is a modern photography technique that creates unique color effects and is characterized by skewed colors, high saturation, and extreme highlights.
Give it a try • Warm Earth Tones — ideal for landscapes; enhances reds, oranges, and yellows • Glamour — ideal for portraits; creates a soft glow 3 Choose one of the following filter types from the Creative Filters drop-list: • Night Effect — applies a dark blue filter to make a photo look like it was taken at dusk or in moonlight • Cooling — cools image colors • Warming — warms image colors • Orange — warms image colors • Champagne — subtly warms image colors • Sunset — simulates the orange-red lighting ef
Black & White and Infrared effects: With Black & White and Infrared filters, users can control the contrast strength and adjust the grain level of their photos to simulate real black-and-white, and infrared film. Users can get creative with a Black & White and Infrared effects. Motion Blur: Users can apply the Motion Blur command to a photo to create the illusion that the photo was taken while the subject was in motion.
5 Corel® Snapfire™ Plus SE Corel® Snapfire™ Plus SE offers users a series of great image-editing, photomanagement tools, and creative photo-project templates that in tandem with Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo help them import, edit, and share their images. With Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, users receive a 30-day preview of Corel Snapfire Plus features.
Doctor to work so that color balance, contrast, clarity, and saturation are adjusted to optimal levels using the One Step Photo Fix feature. Give it a try Automatically optimizing photos 1 Open a photo. 2 In the Enhance mode of the Tasks Panel, click Quick Fix information icon appears next to Quick Fix. when an 3 To read the Photo Doctor message, position the cursor over the information icon to display the message.
6 Summary of New and Improved Features Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo XI • The Organizer is a built-in, one-stop photo-management center that takes the guesswork out of finding photos on the computer. Users can search for images by filename, date, file type, or folder location. • The Color Changer tool lets users easily replace change colors in their digital images. • The Time Machine lets users see what their photos would look like if they had been taken in an earlier era.
• The Photo Doctor removes the guesswork from image correction by analyzing a digital image and recommending any necessary changes. • Corel® Snapfire™ Plus SE lets users create impressive, eye-catching slide shows from their photos and video clips. • Corel Snapfire Plus SE includes many creative photo project templates designed to inspire users to do more with their photos. With drag-and-drop simplicity, users can easily create stunning album pages, greeting cards, calendars, and collages.
7 Customer Support and Other Resources Corel provides a multi-tiered offering of support options for our business and graphics applications designed to accommodate consumer, small business and corporate customers. Additional information about global availability of our support services is located on the Corel web site at: www.corel.com/support.
show you how the feature works, but not how to implement the feature within your file), troubleshooting technical issues and documents, installation, configuration and setup (stand-alone), migration from one version to another. Enterprise Level Support Designed for corporate clients who require account management services and access to Corel’s most skilled support personnel.
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