You have the creative potential. Now get the right tools for the job. Corel® Photo Video Suite X8 is the one editing software collection to give you everything you need to create stunning photos, engaging movies and impressive design projects in one affordable package. Featuring the latest versions of Corel® PaintShop® Pro and Corel® VideoStudio® Pro, this suite delivers our most innovative features, faster editing with powerful 64-bit performance and built-in learning resources to help you every step of the way.

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.

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 find the photos you want. Browse, preview, tag, rate and organize your image collection, then choose to edit, share or save
Adjust – make photo adjustments quickly with fast fixes like Smart Photo fix, Makeover tools and a wide variety of common photo edits
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

Whether you’re editing photos for work, a hobby, your volunteer gig or just for fun, it doesn’t take long for PaintShop Pro to pay for itself. Why pay a monthly subscription when so much professional power is available right here for one affordable price? 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
Adjust brightness, contrast and clarity – Become a photo editing master, using the fundamental photo editing tools every photographer must know. Make manual adjustments or automatic edits to get just the right look for your photo
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
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
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 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 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

From personal movies and action-cam videos, to screen recordings and slideshows, VideoStudio Pro X8 is the fast and easy way to create amazing movies. Drag and drop photos, videos, and audio tracks onto the customizable workspace. Layer photos, videos, effects, transitions and other content on up to 21 multimedia tracks to create sophisticated movies. With 64-bit performance, storyboard editing and project templates, VideoStudio Pro X8 speeds you through all your video projects.

Create a movie or slideshow in minutes with FastFlick, the 3-step movie app. Simply select a template, add your media and share your movie to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr or Vimeo. Or save your project in a variety of formats.

Impress your audience with sophisticated on-screen titles, graphics and transitions. Create unique effects with new overlay options and use Video Masking to hide or reveal different parts of your video. Easy Freeze Frame lets you stop the action to focus on a single frame. NewBlue FX Video Essentials II is also included, offering over 100 presets in 10 plugins to create vignettes, enhance and adjust color, correct lens distortion and much more. VideoStudio Pro X8 includes “layers to tracks” – allowing you to design a look for your videos based on projects created in PaintShop Pro!

VideoStudio Pro X8 makes it much easier to get professional-quality sound with new Audio Ducking, which detects dialog and narration, and automatically lowers background sound. Choose the perfect soundtrack for your movie with the ScoreFitter library of royalty-free songs and sounds, and 17 royalty-free tracks from Triple Scoop Music.