Paint Shop Pro 9 ReadMe

JASC® PAINT SHOP PRO® 9 README

Thank you for choosing Paint Shop Pro! We truly appreciate your support and interest in our products and welcome you into the Jasc family.

Please see the license agreement included in this document for limitations on the duplication and distribution of this software and other important information. If you downloaded this copy of Paint Shop Pro as an evaluation version, please also see the section below that outlines the limitations of this software.

For technical information about this release and specific changes to the program, please see the Paint Shop Pro 9 Release Notes.

INDEX
New Feature Highlights
Evaluation Version Information
Software License and Limited Warranty
Acknowledgements

NEW FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
This section introduces the new features in this version of Paint Shop Pro that enhance your ability to work with digital photographs, create and enhance artwork and graphics, and save time with productivity tasks.

Realistic Painting Tools. New Art Media tools allow users to create digital artwork with brush tips that accurately emulate real-world media and painting styles. Art Media tools include Oil Brush, Chalk, Pastel, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Marker. The Palette Knife and Smear tools realistically mix paints directly on the canvas, while the new Mixer palette is an off-canvas area to experiment and mix custom colors together. The Art Eraser provides a realistic way to remove paint from the canvas. The new Art Media layers allow users to adjust the canvas texture. Artists of all levels can use Image Tracing as an easy way to repaint a photograph or other image using realistic brush strokes.

Innovative Digital Photography Filters. The Digital Camera Noise Removal filter scans photos and removes image noise introduced by the digital camera system while intelligently preserving normal image textures. Users can customize noise removal by defining specific regions or color ranges to focus on or ignore, then save results to presets for later use with photos from the same camera. The Chromatic Aberration Removal filter helps eliminate the colored glow that often appears in digital photos, especially in high contrast areas of an image. The Fill Flash filter corrects the underexposure of shadows in photos, while the Backlighting filter helps compensate for over-exposed areas surrounding the subject of a photo.

Flexible Drawing and Text Tools. The new Rectangle and Ellipse shape tools make it easier than ever to create buttons, banners and other custom graphics. The Rectangle tool includes full control over rounded corners for custom buttons. The new Symmetric Shape tool allows users to create regular polygons and stars then edit them into custom artistic shapes with dazzling flexibility and control. Users can edit shape properties at any time, not just at creation. The Text tool now features vertical text layout options and new anti-alias rendering choices that render cleaner text at smaller font sizes, while options on the Pen tool have been simplified, making it easier than ever to add lines and curves to graphics.

Raw Camera Image Support. Commonly known as digital negatives, raw camera images contain the unprocessed sensor data captured by digital cameras. Paint Shop Pro 9 includes integrated support for raw images from popular camera models by Canon, Fuji, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and Pentax. Users can set custom white balance, exposure and sharpening levels when converting raw camera images for use in Paint Shop Pro.

History Palette and Selective Undo. Easily stay on top of complex editing projects with the new History palette, which tracks each command applied to an image. Powerful new Selective Undo functionality allows users to undo any individual editing step in a documents history without undoing all the following commands. Select and save history steps to the clipboard or as scripts for use in another image.

Resource Categorization. Users can now organize their Paint Shop Pro resource files by projects or subjects in flexible Resource Categories. Choose exactly which groups of resources are available to use by switching between categories when using a tool or feature. Users can create their own categories to use along with the default options installed with the program.

Filters and Effects. Use the Displacement Map filter to create custom two- or three-dimensional surface effects for graphics based on an underlying image. Users can add spin, twist and zoom blur effects to images with the Radial Blur filter.

Print Layout Text. Weve made it easier than ever to add captions and titles to photo layouts with the new text options in Print Layout. Add custom text to describe photos and graphics.

Browser EXIF Preview. A new information window in the Browser allows users to view image details, creator information and EXIF data for any selected image. Sort images using EXIF data to find specific photos.

EVALUATION VERSION INFORMATION
An evaluation, or Try and Buy, version lets a person try out a computer program before buying it. While evaluation versions are copyrighted, and the copyright holder retains all rights, the author specifically grants the user the right to evaluate and distribute the program with limited exceptions.

This evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro 9 has a 60-day evaluation period, after which you must purchase a licensed copy of the program or remove the trial version from your system.

SOFTWARE LICENSE AND LIMITED WARRANTY
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Copyright © 1991-2004 by Jasc Software, Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of the contents of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written permission of Jasc Software, Inc.

This product utilizes one or more of the following patents owned by Digimarc Corporation. U.S. Patent N. 5,636,292, 5,710,834, 5,721,788, 5,745,604, 5,748,763, 5,748,783, 5,768,426, 5,809,160, 5,832,119, 5,841,978, 5,850,481 and 5,930,377.

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