PaintShop Pro 2023 Ultimate

About the Software

For passionate photo enthusiasts who want to make every shot their best shot, PaintShop® Pro 2023 is an advanced photo editor delivering a versatile range of pro-level editing and graphic design tools along with time-saving AI-based solutions and incredible flexibility of multiple workspaces. Enrich the visual stories your images tell by using a collection of creative tools to paint, draw, add text, or build composites with layers and masks. With easy navigation, smart features, and plenty of artistic effects, enjoy positive editing experience from start to finish, and produce results that are as unique as your images.
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What’s new in Painter 2023?

Behind every show-stopping image is real intelligence. Highly effective features and tools powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technology make creating something truly original, and achievable with this photo editing software.

• NEW! AfterShot Lab: Enjoy powerful and complete editing of RAW files with a great variety of pro-level tools available in the new AfterShot Lab, now inside PaintShop Pro. There is no need for extra applications or for running several editing processes in parallel, with time-saving and streamlined RAW image editing.
• ENHANCED! Frame Tool: Enrich the visual stories your images tell! Create shapes (clipped masks) based on symmetrical and Preset Shapes or even vector text objects–or convert already existing vector objects and text into shapes–all with an enhanced Frame Tool. Then, fill shapes with images, patterns, or colors to achieve certain effects–surrealistic, avant-garde, playful, or any other.
• NEW! Focus Stacking: Go crisp and clear with new Focus Stacking allowing to blend multiple images of the same scene, taken at different focus distances, to create a final composite with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images.
• ENHANCED! Real-time Blend Mode preview: Take advantage of the new real-time Blend Mode preview to check layer blending results on the go by hovering over drop-list options in the Layers palette. Mix creatively and check on the fly with the user-friendly and intuitive Blend Mode tool.
• NEW! Snap to Objects: In your projects, align objects with precision in no time with new Snap to Objects feature. Use the bounding box to precisely snap two objects together with an automated high-level control and avoid extra steps in the editing process.
• ENHANCED! Usability and Performance: Enjoy enhancements across the board! Explore the updated layout of "New from Template" page, now with more content visible, plus new "Filter" and "Sorting" options to arrange quick search of theme topic. Get perfect results with the precise rotation value input and the rotation angles control in vector editing. See a 30% performance improvement when using Refine Brush, get support for the latest cameras, and so much more!

Key Features

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Get exactly the results you want with PaintShop Pro’s innovative tools and features

Essential tools
Easily crop areas of your photo to alter the focus using composition guides, Golden Ratio and Rule of Thirds. Resize with ease using one of several presets, or resize by pixels, percentage or print size. Restore and repair old photos with the Scratch Remover and Fade Correction tools to enhance contrast and color to faded photos.

Adjustment tools
Alter your photos using a wide variety of powerful adjustment tools, including Brightness and Contrast, Fill Light and Clarity, Fade Correction, White Balance, Hue and Saturation, Noise Removal, Vibrancy, Sharpening, color correction, and tonal levels and curves.

Selection and Correction tools
Isolate the area you want to select with a variety of Selection tools and enhance your selection with the Refine Brush. Automatically correct distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations in your photos with Lens Correction tools and use the Straighten tool to fix a crooked horizon, or the Perspective Correction tool to make a photo appear as though it was taken from a different angle.

RAW, HDR, and 360° camera support
Advance your editing capabilities of RAW files using the pro-level tools of AfterShot Lab, now available in PaintShop Pro. Combine several photos of the same scene with different exposures to create one stunning HDR photo. Edit photographs taken with a 360° degree camera by straightening a photo with rotation or make it appear levelled. Remove and automatically replace a tripod or produce an interesting ‘planet-like’ effect.

Time saving tools
Reduce repetition and accelerate complex photo-editing actions with Scripts. Record a series of edits as a script to apply to any photo, anytime. Automate edits on multiple photos at once with batch processing like adding a watermark, picture frame, or simply resizing.