Paint Shop Pro is a full featured graphics manipulation and paint program. It contains features demanded by professional graphic artists, with an understandable and easy to use interface for the beginner.
Features include:
Painting
Paint Shop Pro gives you the power to paint your way! You can choose one of the default settings (paintbrush, pen, pencil, marker, crayon, pastel, airbrush or charcoal) or adjust any of the brush attributes to create your own effects.
Photo Retouching
Now you have all the power you need to enhance your existing images. Use the clone brush for quick and easy duplication of image areas, even between separate images. The retouching brush provides you with flexible control over the various attributes. Use the defaults (lighten, darken, soften, sharpen or emboss) or change the attributes to work the way that is easiest for you.
Image Enhancement and Editing
Paint Shop Pro includes full featured masking support (alpha channel support is available for TIFF, TGA, and PNG file formats). Image Arithmetic allows you to combine two images together. Paint Shop Pro allows you to perform flip, mirror, rotate (by one degree increments) and crop operations. The program includes 21 image filters and 11 deformations, plus the ability to create your own filters, and supports third party plug-in filters such as Kai's Power Tools or Alien Skin's Black Box.
Image Browser
The thumbnail browser allows you to visually search directories for images. You can select images to be loaded into Paint Shop Pro for editing.
World Wide Web Graphics Support
Creating a graphic for the World Wide Web could not be any easier than with Paint Shop Pro. Simply create your graphic and save it as one of the popular formats for World Wide Web graphics. Paint Shop Pro supports the Transparent GIF, Transparent PNG, and Progressive JPEG formats highly sought after for web page graphics.
Color Enhancement
Paint Shop Pro provides full support for adjusting brightness, contrast, highlight, shadow, midtone, gamma correction and color reduction, as well as hue, saturation, luminance and RGB levels.
Palette editing and direct palette mapping allow global changes to multiple images. Furthermore, histogram functions enable the user to equalize and stretch the image values. Results can be viewed on the enhanced histogram window that displays red, green, blue and luminance values.
Image Viewing and Printing
View multiple images at once with Paint Shop Pro’s extensive viewing capabilities. If desired, you can edit an image at the pixel level while viewing it at another zoom level. You can also use the full screen mode, complete with zoom, pan, and all image editing features. Paint Shop Pro supports any Windows compatible printer.
Built-in Special Effects
Are you ever nearing completion of creating a graphic and only wish you could put a drop shadow behind it to give it a raised effect? No need to worry, Paint Shop Pro includes built-in special effects, such as drop shadow, buttonize, seamless welder, gradient fill, hot wax coating, chisel and cutout. Your possibilities are endless when you use any of these creative tools.
Paint Shop Pro also provides image viewing and printing functions to provide you complete control over how your images appear.
Support for TWAIN compliant scanners is also included.
GIF Transparency is fully supported. Paint Shop Pro provides support for the following image file formats:
BMP, CDR, CGM, CLP, CUT, DIB, DRW, DXF, EPS, GEM, GIF, HPGL, IFF, IMG, JIF, JPG, LBM, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCX, PIC, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAW, RAS, RLE, TIFF, TGA, WMF, WPG, PICT, PCT