Corel PaintShop Pro X8 is your easier, faster choice for comprehensive photo editing and graphic design. The intuitive 1-2-3 workspace guides you as you:
Manage – quickly browse, preview, tag, rate and organize your image collection
Adjust – make photo adjustments quickly with fast fixes like Smart Photo fix, makeover tools and more
Edit – everything you need for professional photo editing, image composition and graphic design, including layers, creative tools for text, drawing, painting and more—all for a dramatically lower price than subscription-based tools

The magic of PaintShop Pro is in its wealth of creative capabilities. Whether you are a professional designer or a photo editing novice, the right tools are there when you need them to help you achieve your creative vision:
New Text Wrapping lets you instantly wrap text inside any vector shape or selection. Simply choose your shape or draw your selection using any of the selection tools—and fill it with text. The text automatically wraps within the shape—faster and more easily than ever before. This is an ideal effect for posters, scrapbooking, brochures, collages, websites and other projects.
New content-aware Magic Move accelerates editing by automatically replacing the background when you move an object. Simply select the person or object to move and drag it to a new position. The empty area left behind is automatically filled to match the surrounding background.

Why subscribe to PhotoShop when so much professional power is available right here? Take your skills to the next level with the advanced, professional-quality photo-editing capabilities in PaintShop Pro X8.

Layers – use multiple, non-destructive layers when editing images to create photo composites or dynamic designs. New layer enhancements in this release include layer searching, merging selected layers and expanding/collapsing layer groups
Camera RAW Lab – enjoy complete control over your RAW images with an enhanced RAW Lab layout, including before and after views, and a larger preview
High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools – recombine auto-bracketed exposures to create a single, stunning HDR photo with intense visual contrast
Lens Correction – whether you’re in the Edit workspace or the Camera RAW Lab, you can apply Lens Correction tools automatically to correct the distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations that are commonly introduced by most camera lenses
Single RAW Photo for HDR Effect – split an individual RAW file into three images and then selectively recombine them to create an HDR-style effect
Powerful scripting engine – speed up common and repetitive tasks by scripting almost any action with the full-featured scripting engine and scripting guide. Share your scripts with your team or online
Support for third-party plugins – support for 64-bit versions of third-party plugin tools and support for Adobe plugins opens a world of creative possibilities
RAW support – manage and save IPTC metadata in your RAW files, giving you more control over the information contained in your image files. You can also output your RAW file as a JPG or TIF and include IPTC data
XMP support – PaintShop Pro X8 can now read and import data saved in XMP files, which are created by many RAW image-editing applications to save edits without affecting the original RAW files

Finish your editing faster and get back outside to shoot or have fun! From brush performance and selection tools, to batch processing and file saving, actions throughout PaintShop Pro X8 have been accelerated and streamlined to minimize effort—and increase responsiveness. Brush speeds of several brushes are boosted again in this release to be 40 – 120% faster. Selection tools now have a Tolerance setting, allowing you to set precise values to define an area. A new Batch Mode interface makes it fast and easy to work with large groups of photos and apply actions, such as Watermark, Resize, Script and more. Choose security features to apply upon output, including deleting file information and location, or embedding a watermark. Native PaintShop Pro image files save up to 50% faster.

Power is great. Speed is often better. PaintShop Pro X8 gives you both! Turn photos into stunning images faster with improved quick-to-preview photo effects tools:
Retro Lab – bring a vintage look to your photos by applying old school color and contrast to your photos inspired by early lo-fi cameras
Graduated Filter tool – quickly and easily add unique color gradient effects to your images
Instant Effects – choose from a variety of preset effects which are organized into style categories such as Artistic, Film Styles, Black & White and Landscape
Selective Focus – play with depth of field in your photos or apply bokeh effects to keep parts of the image in focus and the rest blurred

Pair PaintShop Pro X8 with a high resolution monitor for the best-looking PaintShop Pro ever. See each detail, read more clearly and easily, and appreciate every aspect of your photo or composition in a beautifully rendered high resolution interface. All-new icons and an enhanced interface are compatible with Ultra High DPI displays (up to 250% zoom with 4K resolution).

Get started quickly with PaintShop Pro X8’s project selection dialog. Simply click File, New Image, choose your desired project dimensions and start customizing. As always, PaintShop Pro makes it easy to find the help, training and information you need. Choose from a library of helpful tutorials in the Discovery Center, then watch and learn from directly within the application. Work smarter and faster with extra tips and tricks from with the award-winning Learning Center. This handy integrated reference guide offers step-by-step instructions and quick access to the right tools for your project, offering the help you need, when you need it.

Connect with loved ones and share your photos with the world using the built-in social media features of PaintShop Pro X8:
Find People S use face recognition technology to identify and tag individuals for easier photo management
Photo Mapping S map your photos to real-world locations and share them online
Share My Trip S create an online slideshow that links your photos directly to an interactive map
Social Media integration S easily share your photos and designs to your Facebook, Flickr and Google+ accounts

We love getting suggestions from enthusiastic PaintShop Pro users. As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best-possible user experience, we have included several of your suggestions in this release and we will continue to do so in future releases.

Before/After button in Adjust mode – quickly see what you have changed versus the original
New Save behavior and Save As dialog – see and change your compression settings directly
Swatches in the Material Properties window – access all the swatches you have created more easily than before
Mask Preview for Shape and Text Cutter – preview and see exactly what you are cutting before you cut for a better user experience
Gradient Preview – now you can see your gradient changes taking place on your image as you adjust them—no more guessing
Buy once, own it forever S you told us you want an affordable price and no monthly fee. PaintShop Pro delivers, with a perpetual license and no monthly fees while still delivering ongoing updates driven by your feedback