Exposure Mergelets you combine photos taken with different exposure settings to create stunning, perfectly exposed images.
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The HDR (high dynamic range) tools have been completely redesigned to give you more control over your results and help you take full advantage of photos taken with auto-bracketing features on DSLRs. X4 comes with a gallery of images, but you can also create your own. Clicking and dragging produces multiple images like the skulls we “tubed” in the example below. With this tool you click and place preset images with transparent backgrounds on top of an image. Here you can treat your photos to vintage styles such as Albumen, Cyanotype, Box camera, etc. The popular Time Machine feature (shown below) remains a crowd-pleaser. (Click on screen-shots for larger views.)Īn interface element we find particularly handy is to the ability to preview effects in small before/after windows, or you can opt to have results shown on the image itself.Įffects controls are easily adjusted via common slider bars. Selective Focus controls provide dramatic Tilt-Shift effects. Since High Dynamic Range imaging remains the rage, version X4 includes a complete set of HDR tools, including a powerful Batch Merge feature. If the array of tools seems intimidating, there’s a built-in Learning Center panel to guide you step by step. Upon launch it feels a bit like being in a theater on opening night-the anticipation of possibilities. Yes, you work with layers, masks and selections, and can export images in every imaginable file format-including “PSD.”įor newcomers, the interface sucks you right in. PaintShop offers built-in image management and all the tools to enhance or manipulate photos, as well as create original designs. Here at Zoom Street we’ve found room for both applications, and use PaintShop whenever we want to create unique special effects. (If you need to do absolutely everything, Photoshop still rules.) Besides saving a bundle of moo, you’ll be able to do just about everything with X4.
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But then, the Ultimate edition of PaintShop Pro includes Nik Color Efex as well as KPT filters.Īdd to this an astoundingly low price for PaintShop Pro X4 Ultimate and you have a STREET SMART Editor’s Choice award-winner.ĭownloading a trial version of X4 should be enough to make graphic artists and photographers on a tight budget dive right in. Adobe relies on third-party vendors for their filter power. For example, Photoshop’s Pixel Bender Gallery doesn’t hold a candle to the Geometric effects in PaintShop Pro. I know that’s saying a lot, but we’ll take it one step further by adding that X4’s native filter set is superior. Corel PaintShop Pro X4 Ultimate gives Adobe Photoshop a run for its money. It hasn’t vanished because it’s a powerful graphics/photo editing application and -in a world awash with pedestrian software-it’s still a hell of a lot of fun to use.īut there’s more to it than that. PaintShop has been around for over 20 years.