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Neon Phone Your Phone Store - Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
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List Price: $79.99
Our Price: $66.49
Your Save: $ 13.50 ( 17% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Corel
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Corel
EAN: 0735163116229
Feature: The ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom; an array of graphics tools and creative effects help you transform their photos into one-of-a-kind artistic images
Format: CD-ROM
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Corel
Manufacturer: Corel
Model: PSPPX2ENPC
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Corel
Release Date: 2007-09-20
Studio: Corel
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Features
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The ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom; an array of graphics tools and creative effects help you transform their photos into one-of-a-kind artistic images
Fix brightness, color, and photo flaws in a few clicks; use precision editing tools to create the picture you want; give photos a unique, exciting look using hundreds of special effects, and more
One-of-a-kind Express Lab helps you quickly view and fix dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit a few
HDR Photo Merge helps you combine two or more photos taken at different exposures, and then automatically dodges and burns to bring out the contrast
Includes a built-in Learning Center to help you get started; it's the easiest way to get professional-looking photos--fast
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Editorial Reviews:
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New Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is the ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom. It's filled with everything from easy automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. You'll save hours of time with the new Express Lab, because now you can edit dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. All sorts of new tools are available, including a set of professional easy-to-use retouching tools and special features for professional photographers, HDR Photo Merge and a feature to create and add presonal watermarks. It even includes a built-in Learning Center to help new users get started right away! New and improved Makeover Tools with new features including Thinify! Improved Black & White Film Conversion Requires Windows XP or Vista
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great program, but...
Comment: ... it requires a computer with a lot of power to be effective. More power than my AMD Athlon 2800 can provide. So I'll need to upgrade my computer if I want to use this program.
Customer Rating:
Summary: good software
Comment: Have not had too much time to use this with the Christmas preperations. What I have used so far looks like just what I wanted.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good software to learn with
Comment: I purchased this software for the bargain price of $38. I had been waiting for the price to come down & it did. For that price, this software is worth every penny and thensome. There are a lot of creative features that you can use to add artistic touches to your pictures. There are also the standard photo fixers that fix lighting, red eye, "noise", and color problems. The book that comes with the software walks you through each feature. I'd recommend it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best value for photo editing
Comment: I had used Adobe Paint Shop a few years ago but found it too slow and not very user-friendly, so I returned it. I also used a beta version of Lightroom, but didn't need it enough to upgrade when it was released. I bought Corel's product (Ultimate version) on sale for roughly 1/10 the price of Adobe's! My friend (who is very serious about digital processing and uses Adobe's Lightroom, Paint Shop, a stand-alone HDR product and Corel Paint Shop) and I compare capabilities of the different products. Here's our current verdict:
- Best at HDR: Corel
- Best at white balance (especially 'blow outs'): Adobe Photo Shop
- Best layout and ease-of-use: Corel (me) vs. Lightroom (my friend, with a more intensive processing methodology)
- Best value: Corel
Other strengths of the Corel package:
- Sharpen
- Clarify (color)
- Niks color effects plugin (especially brightness & warmth)
- Brush strokes effects
Some weaknesses:
- Poor online tech support: I had an installation issue stalled in email for several days before it was escalated to a phone support person who was able to solve it in 2 minutes.
- Layout is still a bit complex and the context sensitivity doesn't always show you what you want.
- Slower to adopt new Camera RAW formats than Adobe.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great inexpensive software for amateur photographers
Comment: I purchased this software when it was a lightning deal. I figured that it wasn't much of an investment to see how the software worked. I have been very pleased with it. I'll admit, I still have yet to read the directions, so I know that there's much more I'll be able to do with it in the future, but I was able to figure out a number of things just by playing with it. After reading reviews that said it wasn't user-friendly, I was surprised that it was easy for me to figure out several things on my own. I have been very pleased with their red-eye features - which have animal eye options as well as human eye options. Also, one of the main reasons I purchased this was because of the thinify feature. This does work as well as I'd hoped, but works best when there is only one person in the picture. It thins the subject from a center point that you choose - so if you're trying to thin one person, the other person may appear distorted. As I've said, I'm still playing around with it, but I am not a very computer savvy person and I would recommend this to the amateur photographer that wants relatively inexpensive software to edit their photos.
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