PaintShop Photo Pro X3

A powerful photo-editing program

Simple photo organization
Express Lab for one-click fixes
Professional image adjustments
Photo backup and sharing

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Photography editing software for professional results

If digital photography and creating great photos is your passion, Corel® PaintShop Photo® Pro X3 is the photo-editing program for you! Featuring Camera RAW photo support and easy batch photo editing, it combines photo management, editing, creative projects, backup and sharing in one high-performance package. This popular photography editing software is everything you need to get professional-looking results you'll be proud to share. And it's ideal for DSLR cameras!

Also available: PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate

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Organize & manage your photos & videos

Use high-quality thumbnails and fast previews to select photos. You can also search, rate and tag photos to quickly find your favorites.
Edit & retouch your photos

Enjoy full Camera RAW support. Take advantage of the Express Lab's one-click fixes, as well as the Organizer's batch photo-editing feature. And get even greater results with the advanced photography editing software tools, such as Smart Carver™, Vibrancy and Object Extractor.
Turn photos into slideshows

Use high-quality templates to create beautiful photo and video slideshows. You can import still frames from your HD videos to add to your slideshows.
Back up and share your photos & videos

Create professional-looking photo books, calendars, collages, cards and slideshows, and back up data on CD or DVD. Upload photos and videos directly to Facebook®, Flickr® and YouTube™, or quickly share photos by email with automatic photo resizing.

Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is the best photo-editing program for achieving professional looking results—fast!

Features

The best photo-editing software for DSLR cameras, PaintShop Photo Pro puts the fun back into digital photography. Make your workflow fast and easy so you can create professional-looking photos you'll be proud of.

Simplify your digital workflow

Enhanced! Photo Organizer

Customize your digital workflow with new photo management capabilities in PaintShop Photo Pro X3's Photo Organizer. Use thumbnails and image previews to quickly select your photos.

New! Easy Batch Processing

Make adjustments to one photo, then easily apply the same changes to multiple other photos. Edit one, apply to many, right from the Organizer.

Enhanced! Express Lab

The new interface makes photo editing faster than ever. Preview photos and videos or make changes in this speed-editing mode. Quickly adjust contrast, apply local tone mapping, remove noise and sharpen images. You can also adjust levels, clarity and white balance, batch-edit multiple photos and more.

Auto-preserve Originals

Automatically store a copy of your original photo when saving an edited version.

Camera RAW Support

Make RAW adjustments during the loading process and work with even more RAW camera formats—faster than ever before. By working with these "digital negatives," you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility, without overwriting the original RAW files.

Do more with advanced photo-editing tools

New! Smart Carver™

Seamlessly remove objects from an image with professional quality. Smart Carver also lets you expand or contract objects without distortion.

New! Vibrancy

Boost color in the least saturated areas of a photo without affecting the rest of the image.

New! Object Extractor

The integrated Object Extractor isolates an object—even challenging cases such as flyaway hair and fuzzy pet fur—so it can be copied to a new background or a new background can be pasted behind it.

Depth of Field Effect

Depth of Field allows you to create effects that you can't do with a camera lense alone. Draw attention to a specific area of an image by focusing on one region and applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. Create an effect in seconds that usually requires precise manual lens aperture adjustments.

New! On-Image Text Editing

With the updated text engine, it's easier, faster and more natural to apply text to an image. Adjust font, color, placement, position, size and wrapping of the text in context of the image. Reselect the text on the image and continue typing, or apply text on a path. on a path.

New! HD Video Slideshows

As an increasing number of DSLRs capture HD video, PaintShop Photo Pro now offers tools that let you combine photo and video projects. Create HD slideshows and movies of your photos and videos, all with the same tool.

New! Windows® 7 Compatibility

PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is fully compatible with Windows 7, as well as Windows® XP and Windows Vista®. Take advantage of new Windows 7 speed and performance to experience a whole new level of creativity.

HDR Photo Merge

Quickly merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures, or with different brightness and contrast settings, to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows.

Black & White Photos

Create dynamic black & white, sepia and antique-style images by simulating the look of taking photos using a colored lens filter.

Layers and Adjustment Layers

Nondestructively adjust the color or tone of your images without actually modifying the pixels on each layer. You can also add multiple adjustment layers to an image to test various color corrections or see how several corrections look when they're combined.

Adjust Levels & Curves

Precisely adjust tone, color balance and exposure with exceptional control. The Curves dialog box includes a histogram, so you can easily and intuitively fine-tune your work. Three automatic settings let less-experienced users optimize the contrast and color levels in images with just a few clicks.

Advanced Sharpen Tools

Turn fuzzy photos into crisp images, without compressing or degrading the quality of the image.

Fix Lens Distortions

Easily remove fish-eye, barrel and other lens distortions.

Visible Watermarks

Protect and take credit for your photos by easily adding a visible watermark to label your work.

Fix it fast in Express Lab

Don't let the small stuff slow you down! Enjoy one-click access to common photo fixes.

Learning Center

The award-winning Learning Center empowers anyone to harness the power of advanced photo editing, regardless of your previous software experience. It builds your confidence and makes it easier to develop your skills by helping you complete tasks within seconds of launching PaintShop Pro Photo.

Makeover Tools

Make sure the people in your photos look their best with tools that are fun and easy to use. Help your subjects look thinner in seconds, whiten bloodshot eyes, smooth wrinkles, paint on a tan and remove blemishes.

Enhanced! Remove Digital Camera Noise

Remove "noise" artifacts that interfere with the clarity of your digital image—faster than ever! One-Step Noise Removal smooths photos with a single click. Digital Camera Noise Removal gives you precise control over how these corrections are applied.

Smart Photo Fix

Instantly correct lighting and color problems with automated tools, or make manual corrections on your own.

Red Eye Removal

Eliminate red eye in one click or use advanced red-eye removal that even works on pets.

Color Changer

Easily change the color of objects in your digital photos, such as clothing, walls and furniture. Rather than simply replacing a color, the Color Changer detects and analyzes variations in brightness, then makes the necessary adjustments to produce a realistic effect.

Get creative with projects and photo sharing

Enhanced! Built-in Creative Projects

PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is the only pro-quality photo enthusiast software package to so closely integrate creative projects with photo editing. The new Project Creator is a fast and simple way to make a great-looking photo book, collages, cards and more—all in addition to PaintShop's easy online sharing options.

New! Easy Photo Sharing

Share photos and videos where and how you want, using email, Flickr®, Facebook® and YouTube™. Print at home, order prints online*, email or quickly burn a DVD to enjoy on your TV.

Layer Styles

Easily apply artistic effects to individual layers, such as drop shadows, embossing and reflections.

PictureTubes™

Decorate your photos with 30 new sets of professionally designed artistic elements. A longtime user favorite, this tool lets you paint on photos with ready-made art that features a variety of themes. For example, add butterflies and beetles to a picnic setting or fill an aquarium with fish.

Picture Frames and Photo Edges

Easily add eye-catching final touches to your images with Picture Frames. A variety of styles and the ability to edit give you more creative possibilities.

Time Machine

Go back in time and give photos a retro look using effects that replicate the unique appearance of photos taken in the 1800s, 1950s and other points in history.

Black & White Photos

Easily covert your color photos to black & white, mimic infrared film or add a touch of class by making them sepia-toned.

Special Film Effects

Produce interesting, eye-catching photos with a range of effects inspired by classic film and filter types. Simulate the unique look of slide or portrait film, mimic the effect of using color filters on your camera lens, or apply a Film Look to model the effect of using different types of film in a traditional camera.

Captions

Add shapes or words to your photos to add creativity, raise impact, or note important dates and events.

*Online printing services are available in select countries only and are subject to additional charges.

PaintShop Photo Pro X3—the best photo-editing software for DSLR cameras.

What's New

This is a must-have upgrade for PaintShop users and DSLR camera owners! The fastest version yet, this photo-editing program features exciting new professional-quality features, like the Smart Carver, a new RAW Lab, easy batch processing and a photo Organizer. Learn how to speed up your entire workflow and get the best-quality results.