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Advanced image editor

Turn photos into stunning images your audience won't soon forget with advanced photo-editing features in Corel® PHOTO-PAINT™ X7. Designed to complement CorelDRAW, this application offers professional editing tools and support for the latest PSD files, plus extensive RAW file support for over 300 types of cameras.
Supported cameras (PDF)

Why I use Corel PHOTO-PAINT

by Stefan Lindblad

I use Corel PHOTO-PAINT and CorelDRAW® every day for all my digital work, including illustrations, graphic design and layout for book covers, brochures, vector logos, T-shirt prints and, of course, image editing. Sometimes I use just one program at a time and other times I use both programs together.

What I like about Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7
I really like the new Welcome Screen in X7. Not only is it more stylish, there's also a contemporary, fresh feel to the layout and interface, and that is important to me as a designer and artist. It is also so much easier to browse around for files, help and information. Simply put—it's great!

The new Liquid tools in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 are great additions. They're perfect for artistically changing and enhancing photos and designs.

The new Edit Fill controls have really helped me speed up my workflow when using fills. With the new look and new features in the dialog box, fills are much easier to work with.

The Bokeh Blur effect is also a very good addition, and I've added this great feature to my toolbox. It's perfect for working with blur effects on both photographs and illustrations.

About Stefan
Stefan Lindblad works full time as a self-employed illustrator, graphic designer and artist for a wide variety of clients both in Sweden and internationally. Visit www.stefanlindblad.com to learn more about Stefan and see his work.

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What's new in PHOTO-PAINT X7

New customizable workspaces
The new default workspace for Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7 has been refashioned to offer a more intuitive and efficient configuration of tools, menus, status bar, property bars, and dialog boxes. There are also Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop workspaces, which will help new users get to speed within a familiar environment.

Simple Customization
Use the new Quick Customize buttons to tailor your toolbox and property bars to suit your needs. Available in both CorelDRAW X7 and Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, these buttons offer a faster and more convenient way to add dockers to your workspace, add and remove tools from the toolbox and add or remove items from a property bar.

Enhanced support for digital cameras
Import RAW camera files directly from your digital camera thanks to extensive RAW file support. New in PHOTO-PAINT X7, you can import RAW files from a variety of new camera models, including the latest from Canon, Fuji Olympus and Samsung. See all thesupported camera types (PDF).

New special effects
Apply several new camera effects to adjust the color and tone of your photos. Effects include Bokeh blur, Colorize, Sepia toning and Time Machine, which allows you to recreate popular photographic styles from the past with seven unique visual and historic styles which range from 1839 to the 1960s.

Liquid tools
Four new pressure-sensitive Liquid tools— Smear, Attract, Repel, and Twirl— offer fresh creative options for retouching photos. You can use these tools to reshape specific image areas to produce unique artistic effects. Each tool responds to the pressure of your digital pen or stylus, and provides options that help you control the intensity of the effect.

Interactive brushstroke settings
Apply transparency and feathering on the fly using the new modifier keys. Now you can adjust the transparency and feathering of brushstrokes as you paint with any of the brush tools, including the Eraser, Red-eye removal, Clone, Touch-up brush, Paint, Effect, Image Sprayer, Undo brush, and Replace color brush tools.

Planar Mask tool
The new Planar Mask tool lets you define a feathered editable area along parallel lines. The lines can be moved or rotated to adjust the position and degree of the effect. In combination with a blur effect, it's the perfect way to focus on a particular object in a photograph while blurring the areas outside the lines.

Unsharp Mask lens
The new Unsharp Mask lens lets you sharpen your photos without having to apply the effect directly to an object. This lens increases the contrast of adjacent pixels while preserving both high-frequency details, such as edges, and low-frequency details, such as large structures, gradients and background colors.

Correct lens distortion
The new Correct lens distortion slider helps you preview and adjust your image to quickly and easily remove pincushion and barrel distortions. Pincushion distortions make photos appear pinched in from the center, while barrel distortions make photos appear pushed out from the center.

Setting up guidelines
The new Guidelines docker makes it easier to add, manage and modify guidelines. You can now position guidelines with precision, change their line style and color, have objects and editable areas snap to them, and lock them into place to avoid unwanted changes. For additional functionality, you can now add angled guidelines and rotate existing guidelines.

Alignment Guides
Alignment guides are temporary guidelines that help you align objects as you create, resize, or move them in relation to other nearby objects. The new Alignment Guides docker lets you view, set up, and modify alignment guides. In addition, you can now use margin alignment guides which give you the ability to inset and offset an object relative to another object.

Align and Distribute docker
Access all the key alignment and distribution controls from one convenient location using the new Align and Distribute docker. Replacing the original Align and Distribute dialog box, this new docker stays put and doesn't hide your images while you're working. You can also instantly view the effect of changes as you modify the options in the docker.

Brush Selector menu
Find the right brush for your project fast using the new Brush Selector. This convenient new drop-down combines all brush categories and brush types in one location, plus it stores the settings for the last five brushes you've used.

Improved font list
Working with fonts is easier than ever. The appearance of font names, including the names of small fonts, is now clearer in the Font list box. Fonts are now grouped by family name, helping you to navigate and find fonts quickly and easily. Plus, you can change the size of the font names in the Font list box to suit your needs.

Easy font preview and advanced character tools
Find the perfect font for any project. The new Font Playground lets you preview and experiment with different fonts before bringing them into your design. Plus, the revamped Insert Character docker automatically shows you all the characters, symbols and glyphs associated with your font, making them easier than ever to find and insert.

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User favorite features

Smart Carver
Easily remove unwanted areas from a photo and simultaneously adjust the photo’s aspect ratio with Smart Carver. The versatile Object Removal brush lets you paint an area you want to keep or remove to quickly remove unwanted elements from your photo.

Advanced Clip Mask options
Adjust the properties of a group of objects in a way that is non-destructive to the individual objects within the group by creating a clip mask. For example, you can adjust transparency levels for the whole group without altering the pixels of the individual objects.

Document/Image palettes
Corel PHOTO-PAINT automatically creates a custom color palette for each design project, which is saved with the file so you can access it quickly whenever you open your project.

Color Proof Settings
Prepare your work for output more efficiently using the color proof settings. This docker helps you save time by providing a list of output devices which you can choose from to preview the output. When seeking approval from clients, you can easily export soft proofs and print hard proofs.

Tone Curve adjustments
Adjust your images with more precision with an integrated histogram that provides real-time feedback as you make adjustments. The Eyedropper lets you pinpoint specific color locations on the tone curve of your image. You can also select, add, or delete nodes along the tone curve.

Image Adjustment Lab
Quickly correct common color balance and tone problems from a single dialog box.

Convert to Grayscale dialog box
Take control when converting images to grayscale by choosing the range of colors used in the conversion. This eliminates results that appear washed out because of predominant blues or reds in the original photo. The preview window in the dialog lets you adjust the colors for a more realistic conversion.

Vibrance, Grayscale and filter effects
Experiment with exciting effects to enhance your photos. Use the Vibrance effect to add richness to colors in your photos with low saturation. Try the Grayscale effect to remove the saturation of an object, layer or region of a photo. Use the Photo Filter effect to simulate the look of different camera lens filters.

Controls for straightening images
Quickly and easily straighten images that were scanned or photographed at an angle. The interactive controls, a grid with vertical and horizontal guidelines, and an integrated histogram that provides results in real time, make it easier than ever to straighten crooked images. You can also choose to have images automatically cropped.

Transparency
Create interesting effects by applying transparency to an object so that all objects beneath it are partially visible.

Brushes and nibs
Choose from a variety of brushes and nibs for interesting painting effects.

Histogram feedback
Preview your image-editing changes in real time.

Objects docker
Worker faster and smarter by making your most commonly used features more accessible. The Objects docker exposes many of the most commonly used operations. Use nested grouping when organizing a complex image, to make round-tripping between multiple applications easier. Adjust thumbnails of objects and masks at any time.

Export for Web dialog box
Prepare files for the web quickly with this dialog, which offers a single access point for common export controls. This dialog lets you:

• Compare the results of various filter settings before you commit to an output format, making it easier to achieve optimal results
• Specify object transparencies and matting colors for anti-aliased edges—all with real-time preview
• Select and edit color palettes for indexed formats

Fit text to path
Add text along the path of an open object, like a line, or a closed object, like a circle. You can easily adjust the position of the text in relation to the path.

Pass Through Merge Mode
For more control when applying a lens or effect, apply Pass Through Merge Mode to groups so your changes will be applied to all objects, including those layered below the group.

Native 64-bit support
Edit photos faster with native 64-bit support. You’ll be able to open and edit more large files at once, see results in less time, work without hiccups while running multiple applications and process larger files and images faster than ever.

Wacom tablet support
Support for Wacom tablets means you can take advantage of the power, precision and sensitivity of a tablet when editing or painting photos with pressure-sensitive brushes.

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