The easiest way to get professional looking photos--fast!

Overview

• Import pictures from your camera automatically
• Instantly fix common problems such as red eye, color and sharpness
• Add special effects to photos, text and projects with a few simple clicks
• Use advanced editing tools to fine-tune images on your own
• Print, email and share photos

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
Includes:

• New--Express Lab
  • Save hours with this rapid photo fixing mode
• Corel MediaOne Plus (DVD Maker not included)
  • Edit with fast, fun and easy photo & video software
  • Turn pictures and video clips into slide shows, or create collages, calendars and album pages
• Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 video training
  • Learn editing tips and tricks with video tutorials by Lynda.com
• Special effects filters by Nik Software
  • Add stunning effects and styles to transform pictures into unique photographs

The Express Lab lets you edit photos without opening each image file individually, so your workflow runs seamlessly. Click to enlarge.

Use layers to add effects to your images. Click to enlarge.

Ease of use with full professional power. Click to enlarge.

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate
Includes everything in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, plus:

• Enhanced--Camera raw support
  • Enjoy support for over 250 camera raw formats
• New--Background remover plug-in
  • Easily remove the background of a photo and change it to a new scene for more creative impact
• Enhanced--Creative content pack
  • Get creative with your photos by adding fun details. Choose from 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes
• New--Certified for Windows Vista
  • Certified for Windows Vista software has undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security
• Bonus--USB flash drive (2 GB)
  • Store and transfer your digital photos with this handy thumb drive
• Bonus--Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4
  • Transform your photos into stunning paintings in 3 easy steps
• Bonus--Media recovery software
  • Recover images, movies and sound files, even from reformatted memory cards

What's New

Enhanced--Camera Raw Support
For those who shoot in raw format, support for over 250 cameras has been added.

New--Background Remover
This new plug-in lets you easily change the background in your photos to create unique and exciting effects. Just cut out part of an image, remove it from the background and place it on a different setting. You can even preserve fine image details like strands of hair or smoke.

Enhanced--Creative Content Pack
Ideal for scrapbooking and other creative photo projects, this bonus pack contains 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes that allow you to enhance any image with fun graphics.

New--Certified for Microsoft Windows Vista
Certified for Windows Vista software has undergone Microsoft compatibility tests for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security.

Bonus--Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4
This fun program lets you turn a photo into a unique work of art in just 3 easy steps:

1. Choose a photo and the painting style you want to apply.
2. Let the Smart Stroke painting technology create a stunning painting.
3. Touch up your masterpiece by hand if desired.

Bonus--Media Recovery Software
New Media Recovery software included with Paint Shop Pro X2 Ultimate can recover images, movies and sound files from memory cards, even if they have been reformatted. It is compatible with virtually all media card formats, including SD, miniSD, microSD, CompactFlash I & II, Memory Stick, MMC, xD, SmartMedia and Micro Drive.

Bonus--USB Flash Drive
Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate comes with a 2 GB USB flash drive for storing and transferring your digital photos and files.

New--Corel MediaOne Plus (DVD Maker not included)
This fast, fun and easy photo & video software lets you turn pictures and video clips into slide shows, and create collages, calendars and album pages.

Get photos from your PC, camera or scanner automatically with Express Lab. Click to enlarge.

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

Merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures or with different brightness/contract settings to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows. Click to enlarge.

Features

View, organize and edit photos quickly

• Rotate, resize, crop, straighten and remove red eye fast in Express Lab mode
• Import photos automatically, including raw images
• View thumbnails of all images on your hard drive
• Tag photos with keywords for easy reference
• Search for photos by filename, folder name, keyword tag, caption text or image metadata

Express Lab
This easy photo fixing mode helps you view and correct dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. The Express Lab lets you edit photos without opening each image file individually, so your workflow runs seamlessly!

• Get photos from your PC, camera or scanner automatically
• Adjust photo details, such as brightness, shadows, highlights and saturation
• Rotate, resize, crop, straighten and remove red eye
• Retouch and restore to remove flaws

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

Crop to New Image
Quickly separate multiple images that you scanned at the same time. This tool automatically creates a new file from the cropped area and keeps the original scan open so you can easily separate individual image files from the group scan.

Enhanced--Camera Raw Support
Download photos from your camera to computer effortlessly, including raw image formats produced by many digital cameras. 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.

Support for Over 50 Formats
View photos and video clips in more than 50 file formats. Easily import files and ensure accurate color quality for your images.

Share Photos Instantly
Email photos or slide shows to family and friends.

Retouch your photos like a pro

• Retouch with unique makeover tools to look your best in photos you print or post online
• Whiten teeth, smooth wrinkles and remove blemishes with a few clicks
• Edit quickly with easy tools
• Cover distractions or remove unwanted objects
• Change the color of anything in your photo
• Remove noise, grain or discolorations

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.

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.

Remove Digital Camera Noise
"Noise" artifacts are small specks of color that interfere with the clarity of your digital image.

• One-Step Noise Removal--smooth photos with a single click
• Digital Camera Noise Removal--precisely control how these same corrections are applied

Straighten Tool
Fix crooked photos taken at awkward angles.

Correct Perspective
Get rid of unwanted distortions by changing perspective.

Repair Damaged Photos
Restore old, damaged photos by removing scratches and fading.

Remove Distracting Objects
Improve photos by covering up unwanted background objects, such as lamp posts, trees and buildings.

Enhance with professional tools

• Combine exposures to get full details in highlights and shadows
• Simulate black & white film or convert to sepia
• Adjust levels, curves or histogram settings
• Fix brightness, color, contrast, saturation and sharpness
• Experiment with more advanced editing tools by fine-tuning details on your own

HDR Photo Merge
Merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures or with different brightness/contract settings to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows.

Enhanced--Black & White Photos
Create dynamic black & white images by simulating the look of taking photos using a colored lens filter.

Layers and Adjustment Layers
Maintain image quality when applying changes to color or tone. Edit photos with precision by adding multiple adjustment layers to test various color corrections or to see how corrections look when they're combined.

Adjust Levels & Curves
Change photo exposure using advanced features, including Levels, Curves or Histogram Adjustment tools.

Sharpen Out-of-Focus Pictures
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.

Depth of Field Effect
Draw attention to a specific area of an image. Depth of Field applies focus to a region of your photo while applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. This allows you to create an effect in seconds that usually requires precise manual lens aperture adjustments.

Professional-Level Options
Work with a variety of advanced features, including 16-bits-per-channel editing, color management settings and raw file conversion.

Visible Watermarks
Take credit for your photos by easily adding a visible watermark to label your work.

Create and share one-of-a-kind photo projects

• Give photos a unique look with vintage and artistic effects
• Simulate the look of film using vivid, glamour and vibrant foliage filters
• Decorate your favorite photos with Picture Frames and Picture Tubes
• Use layers to add drop shadows, glows, reflections and embossing to your images
• Design scrapbook pages, cards and collages to share with friends and family

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

Picture Tubes
Decorate your photos with 30 new sets of professionally designed artistic elements. A longtime user favorite, this tool lets you paint on photos with readymade 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 20 new 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.

Enhanced--Creative Content Pack
This bonus pack contains 150 brand-new, custom-made photo frames, photo edges and Picture Tubes that allow you to brighten up any image with fun graphics.

Customer Reviews Average rating - 3.0

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-20
Content: I love this software! There are so many different things you can do to your photos and plenty of online user guides to help you step by step. My computer runs just fine with this program running.... though I have a gaming system so it's already pretty fast. Over all.... GREAT PRODUCT! Shipping wasn't the quickest but worth the wait!
Summary: Great software!

Rating - 5 Date: 2008-11-17
Content: my sister is all into photos. she makes calenders and albums for everyone and this gives her more opprotunity to spin her special talents. takes a little time to read through the tutorial but is worth it.
Summary: paint shop junkie

Rating - 1 Date: 2008-11-14
Content: I have owned all Paint Shop Pro versions. Recent versions had some enhancements, but also some bugs that tech support could not resolve and which still appear in Ultimate. But, I upgraded to X2 Ultimate because it claimed to support my Nikon D300 RAW files. They do open, but they can not be saved directly as uncompressed TIFF files. In fact, in this version the problem applies to all NEF files from my other Nikon DSLRs as well (though those worked fine in the previous version). The bug was verified by Corel Tech Support and I applied for a refund. It was bad enough that I had to pay $60 for a minor upgrade; but, worse, Corel refuses to refund the shipping charges I paid. So, I have to pay $9.00 for the privilege of discovering a bug that rendered this version useless in my workflow. Corel seems to have little regard for users of this increasingly buggy software.
Summary: Nikon RAW support worse than prior versions

Rating - 2 Date: 2008-11-11
Content: This product was advertised as having the "Background Remover" plug-in included. Installing the "Background Remover" simply sent me to a webpage which offered to "Sell" me the "Background Remover". Contacting Corel did no good. They sent directions, which I did, and still got the same results. Additional requests for customer service have gone unanswered. They ARE however, sending me some form of advertisement every day. The basic product seems OK but would require some extensive reading to get up to par. Software is not real "user friendly". Since my reason for choosing this product over another was the Background Remover I was very disappointed with Corel.
Summary: Corel doesn't come through as advertised

Rating - 1 Date: 2008-10-28
Content: I purchased the product from Amazon.com on a CD.
It arrived quickly, however when I tried to install it it asked for a serial number. There is no serial number on the package, CD, or on any documentation. How can a major software company do such a poor job in providing its customers an easy way to install their products which are paid for?
Poor marketing.
Tried Customer Service - FAQ does not answer the problem. Sent email, 24 to 48 hour reply. I am still waiting.
Poor Customer Support.
Summary: Installation problems!!!!!