Awhile back we reviewed Jasc's Paint Shop Pro Studio which was an easy way for the novice user to get into photo editing and graphics. This time we take a look at the more powerful program that Paint Shop Pro Studio was based on, the newly released Jasc's Paint Shop Pro 9.

Photos
-Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter scans photos and removes image noise while intelligently preserving image textures.
-Chromatic Aberration Removal Filter eliminates the purple fringe that often appears in digital photographs.
-Fill Flash Filter corrects the underexposure of shadows. The Backlighting Filter compensates for overexposed areas.
-Raw camera images. Paint Shop Pro 9 includes integrated support for Raw camera images (digital negatives) from several popular camera models.
-Set custom white balance, exposure and sharpening levels when converting Raw camera images for use in Paint Shop Pro.

Art
-Art Media tools include Oil Brush, Acrylic Brush, Chalk, Pastel, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Marker.
-Palette Knife and Smear Tool realistically mix paints on the canvas. The Art Eraser provides an easy way to remove paint from the canvas.
-A new Mixer Palette provides an off-canvas area to experiment and mix custom colors together.
-Art Media Layers allow users to adjust the canvas texture, lighting and paint wetness properties of their artwork.
-Use Image Tracing options as an easy way to paint a photograph or other image using realistic brush strokes.

Graphics
-Rectangle and Ellipse Tools simplify buttons, banners and other custom graphics. The Rectangle tool gives full control over rounded corners for custom buttons.
-Symmetric Shape Tool allows users to create polygons and stars then edit them into custom artistic shapes. Users can edit shape properties at any time, not just at creation.
-The Text Tool features vertical text layout options and new anti-alias rendering choices that render cleaner text at smaller font sizes.
-A simplified Pen Tool makes it easier than ever to add lines and curves to graphics.
-The new Displacement Map Filter creates custom two- or three-dimensional surface effects for graphics based on an underlying image.
-Users can add spin, twist and zoom blur effects to images with the Radial Blur Filter.


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