Custom Formats
Create a custom look and apply it to any object using the Format Painter tool. This tool makes it simple to combine effects like color, outline, or highlight, and then apply them to any other object.
Combinable Photos, Clip Art, Shapes, and Text
Take advantage of the graphics you already have by combining photos, clip art, shapes, and text. Then apply special effects to all these kinds of graphics without having to exit, convert, or save each component.
Photo Editing and Image Touch-up
Easily edit your digital photos with powerful photo-editing and image touch-up tools. Many tools include automatic features that accurately adjust images with a single click.
Color Correction
Accurate color is easy to achieve with one-click automatic color correction, plus the ability to correct the color in images manually.
Customizable Clip Art
Enliven your standard clip art with easy-to-apply artistic brushes and colors.
Advanced Drawing Tools
Provide a broad variety of classic and vector shapes, plus the ability to draw freehand lines or access ready-made straight lines or arrows.
Flexible Painting Tools
Create or alter your graphics with flexible painting options, including choices of brush sizes and shapes, and the ability to apply photographic images to lines and shapes.
SPECIAL EFFECTS:
Embed
Easily create a classic engraved look with the new Embed Effect.
Starburst
Draw attention to your graphics with the starburst effect, which creates the appearance of lens flare.
Glow
Creates a backlit effect much like the sun eclipsed by the moon. You can specify the spread, shape, intensity, transparency, and inner and outer colors of the glow.
Styles
Speed up your design work by instantly applying a pre-designed style to any object. Save and reuse the styles you create.
Designer Effects
Quickly apply any of the 200 Designer Effects to add an artistic touch to your graphics or text.
Drop Shadows
Add a professional look to your graphics with drop shadows available with a choice of numerous lighting effects.
Transparency
Instantly add transparency to graphics for watermarks or backgrounds with an easy-to-use slider control.
Blur/Sharpen
Blur or sharpen your images with simple controls to focus the eye on an object or cause another to fade into the background.
Distort
Add a twist to your graphics with distortion effects that include Skew, Perspective, Bilinear, Bulge (fisheye), Funhouse, Kaleidoscope, Mosaic, Noise, Star, Twirl, and Wave.
Fancy Text
Choose just the right typeface, and then enhance your text further with fills, gradients, and outlines.
3-D Effects
Apply preset 3-D effects to any graphic, including beveling and extrusion, fills, lighting and camera effects, and size and position.
Natural Brush Strokes
Paint with ease using natural brush strokes such as watercolor or charcoal.
