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Welcome to PhotoPlus X2 Studio Pack - Serif's professional Windows Vista™ certified image editing and organising powerhouse. PhotoPlus X2 Studio Pack brings the power of a professional digital darkroom to your business, organisation, school, college, club or home.
Organise and open RAW and other popular images including Photoshop® files, correct common camera flaws and photo problems, professionally makeover portrait photos, achieve outstanding creative results with powerful artistic effects, print a range of layouts, create web graphics, and share photos digitally.
Makeover Studio NEW
Transform those holiday snaps and portraits! The powerful Makeover Studio helps you automatically fix red eye, remove blemishes, smooth skin, brighten teeth and eyes, remove bright hotspots and more - by carrying out editing steps for you. Guidance is offered if you'd like to perform tasks yourself, or single clicks let PhotoPlus do work for you.
QuickFix Studio IMPROVED
The brilliant QuickFix Studio is a one-stop image fixing shop allowing you to easily make several photo adjustments in one hit. Correct camera lens aberration, adjust lighting and colour saturation, sharpen... and with the powerful new Blemish tool remove spots and marks. The Studio also boasts improved speed and new split-view before and after previews. Instantly enhancing your images has never been easier.
Blemish Tool and Patch Tool NEW
Save that all-important shot that was spoiled by a pimple or blotch! New Blemish and Patch tools add to Scratch Removal and other impressive PhotoPlus retouch features, bringing techniques often employed by magazines to abolish image imperfections. The Blemish tool combines pixels from pickup and target areas, automatically softening the edges of the selected area, with the effect becoming more pronounced with each click – simple.
Image Adjustments
Fixing photos was never so flexible – AutoContrast, AutoLevels, Blur, Sharpen, Smudge, Dodge, Burn, Hue, Saturation & Lightness controls and more make PhotoPlus a digital darkroom dream. PhotoPlus X2 makes it possible to correct a host of common photographic problems and producing professional standard photos time after time.
Shadows, Highlights and Midtones
Too much shade or a glaring hotspot? Automatically correct under and overexposed sections of your photos in one single operation, without having to understand complex curves and levels! This great feature quickly and easily allows you to get the best from all your photos, without having to learn about complex filters, graphs and menus.
Image Resizing
Enlarge images without suffering from jaggies or blocky, pixellated results – PhotoPlus X2 employs advanced mathematic algorithms to ensure resizing images (enlarging or downsizing) gives you the best results every time. Nearest Pixel, Bilinear, Bicubic, and Lanczos3 options are available for complete flexibility.
Instant Artist IMPROVED
Can't paint, won't paint? PhotoPlus X2 turns you into an Instant Artist! Choose from a range of artistic styles for your photos including Impressionist, Van Gogh, Oil, Pencil, Paint and Ink, Watercolour, and with a before and after preview watch your image transform into a masterpiece in just seconds. Adjust the settings for the exact look required and even save your settings for future use.
Filter Effects Gallery IMPROVED
The improved Filter Gallery is a one-stop-shot for applying and combining effects within one easy-to-use window. The Filter Gallery remembers the last used effect and offers undo/redo for total flexibility. Select from over 45 fantastic effects, such as Twirl, Halftone, Solarize, Diffuse Glow, Motion Blur, Emboss, and Lighting to professionally enhance your images.
Extract Tool
Have fun with your photos by changing the entire background! Use the powerful Extract Tool to simply paint around the area you want to keep and let PhotoPlus perform special edge detection wizardry to cut out the subject of your photo, removing the rest of the image. Add a new background with ease or copy the extracted subject onto another image – pictures with you and your favourite celebrity are just a few clicks away.
Artistic Brushes
PhotoPlus’ impressive artistic brushes open the door to creative digital painting, with brush effects including Charcoal, Pencil and Watercolour. Additional categories of brush such as Clouds, Colour and Scatter – and picture brushes – offer really fun effects. The Context toolbar offers paint flow, brush size, opacity options and more for speed and total ease-of-use.
Drawing Shapes and Text
PhotoPlus’ vector drawing tools offer powerful freehand drawing capabilities. For a ready-made shape select one of the QuickShapes then use the sliders to morph them into chevrons, badges, zigzags and more – even apply layer effects and gradient fills to your shapes. Put your sweetheart in a heart shape or your mother in law behind bars!
Animation
PhotoPlus’s fantastic Animation features offer powerful automatic Tweening, instantly creating frames for smooth, professional-looking animations. Unify layer attributes, clone multiple frames and flatten frames for complete stop-frame flexibility. Animated GIFs can be imported, edited, and exported, making PhotoPlus ideal for simple Web animations.
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