![]() ![]() I have well over 30,000 photos on my hard drive, and the organiser didn’t slow down at all. Some users with very large picture collections reported that the Organiser file browser in Paint Shop Pro XI slowed down to the point where it was unusable, but I have found no such problems with X2. You can use any image file as the watermark, so you can come up with your own copyright logo and attach it to your pictures. I allows you to add a semi-transparent watermark image to your photos to protect them from unauthorised copying. If you regularly post a lot of images on the internet, the new Visible Watermark feature may prove invaluable. It also works a lot better on non-Caucasian skin tones. The Suntan tool has also been improved, and now adds a healthier skin tone to your subjects, rather than turning them orange. The blemish removal tool has bee much improved, and now resembles Photoshop’s Spot Healing brush. ![]() Other improvements include enhanced photo re-touching tools. Previously this process would have involved a complicated series of layers and filters, so it is now much simpler. Use it on a seated figure and the subject’s legs become strangely shortened.įortunately other new features are a lot more useful, particularly the new Black & White Film effect, which allows you to add colour filters as you would when using monochrome film, to enhance the contrast and tone of colours within the scene, so you can make clouds stand out against a blue sky, for example. Obviously this distortion affects objects in the background as well, which can lead to problems, and it also only works on standing figures. It simply applies a distortion to the image, pinching in a vertical strip at the selected point while keeping the overall dimensions of the picture unchanged. There is a new feature called “Thinnify” which is a one-click process to make people in your photos look slimmer, but to be honest it’s a bit of a gimmick, and not a terribly effective one either. ![]() There are several new photo editing tools to choose from, and some existing ones have been improved. The tools are just as powerful, but presented in a more accessible way, although it is of course still possible to edit photos in the standard full-option workspace instead. It’s the first photo-loading program I’ve seen that I might actually use.Īfter downloading your photos, editing them has been made somewhat easier with the addition of the Express Lab, a new function that places Paint Shop Pro’s main photo editing tools into a quicker and simpler interface. Fortunately the Paint Shop Pro photo loader is more versatile, allowing the user to specify the folder into which photos are transferred, and also to batch-rename transferred photos automatically with date information or a specific title. Many consumer image editing programs, including most of those supplied with digital cameras, already do this, and most are enormously irritating, automatically loading photographs into the default ‘C:’ drive My Pictures folder, which can be a complete pain if you have multiple hard drives with different drive letters. ![]() One is the improved photo loader, which will automatically detect when a USB mass storage device such as a digital camera or memory card is connected to your PC, and will prompt you to download image files from that device. There are several features that are unique to Paint Shop Pro however, and which reflect its more consumer-oriented market. Again this is a feature that also appears in Photoshop CS2. Another feature that will be familiar to Photoshop users is Layer Styles, in which filters and effects that are added to a layer can be edited independently within that layer, without having to undo half the image in order to make adjustments to previous changes. It is a feature that was added to Adobe Photoshop with version CS2, launched in early 2006, so Corel has clearly been playing catch-up in this area. This is a function that merges together series of two or more photos taken from the same position but at different exposures, in order to produce a composite image with greater shadow and highlight detail than a normal digital camera photograph. One of these is HDR Photo Merge, a subject which I covered in a recent tutorial. There has always been a certain element of “keeping up with the Joneses” between Corel and Adobe, so it’s no surprise that some of the new additions mirror features recently added to Photoshop. Apart from demonstrating a limited understanding of the Roman numbering system, the latest version introduces several new features, improves some existing ones, and adds an attractive new interface theme. The previous version, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, was launched in September last year and has proved to be very popular, so just a year later a new version has been launched, named Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. ![]()
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