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