Paintshop Photo Pro

Type : photo editor software
Version : full
Edition : X3
System : Windows XP/Vista/7
Developer : Corel
Price : $59.99
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Although its not a Adobe Photoshop clone (especially in the price department), Corel’s Paintshop Photo Pro X3 can perform a lot of the same powerful image manipulation and enhancements, going so far as to even supporting Photoshop plugins, but once again without the hefty price tag. Not only can this feature packed yet extremely affordable photo editing software edit and retouch photos with a professional touch, but it can also optimize, manage, share, and create slideshows with complete ease.

• - remove objects from an image with professional quality using Smart Carver.
• - also lets you easily expand or contract objects without distorting the photo.
• - boost color in the least saturated areas without affecting rest of the image.
• - isolate an object so it can be copied to a new background or pasted behind it.
• - even challenging cases such as flyaway hair and fuzzy pet fur can be isolated.
• - depth of field to create effects that you can’t do with a camera lens alone.
• - draw attention to a specific area of an image by focusing on one region.
• - at the same time also apply an out of focus blur to the rest of the image.
• - quickly create an effect that usually requires manual aperture adjustments.
• - faster and more natural on image text editing with an updated text engine.
• - adjust font, color, placement, position, size and wrapping of the text.
• - 1.5 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM and 3 GB hard drive space requirements.

Featuring RAW Lab (manually adjust groups of RAW photos during the loading process) and batch photo processing, Paintshop Photo Pro X3 is the only advanced photo editing software like Photoshop to combine photo management, creative projects, photo sharing and even HD video slideshows in one very affordable package. Of course if you’re looking for the best of the best you want Adobe Photoshop, but as this software is around 10 times less expensive it is one of the best alternatives on the market. [More Information]