What’s new in Corel PaintShop Pro X7

Corel PaintShop Pro X7 is defined by better performance, new tools that help you focus on enjoying the creative journey, and enhanced functionality in key areas. As always, working closely with our users was an essential part of creating this version of the easy-to-use photo-editing tool that many professional and enthusiast photographers and designers have come to rely upon.

New! Magic Fill

Magic Fill is a content-aware feature that can make unwanted elements of your photos vanish. Use your favorite selection tools to select an area or object that you want to remove and apply Magic Fill to replace the selection with a background that matches the surrounding area—even when the surrounding area is textured or varied. For more information, see Using Magic Fill to erase image areas.

New! Shape Cutter and Text Cutter tool options

Create photo objects instantly with the Shape Cutter and Text Cutter. The cutouts are filled with the underlying photo or imagery and placed in a new image with a transparent background—perfect for collage, scrapbook, and other creative photo projects. For more information, see Filling cutout shapes with images and Creating a text cutout filled with an image.

New & Enhanced! Materials palette, custom palettes, and color harmonies

The redesigned Materials palette makes it easier to select colors, and for the first time, you can build custom color palettes for your projects. A built-in dropper tool lets you sample colors in your images or from any application or Web page displayed on your desktop. Color swatches for the most recently used colors display automatically at the bottom of the palette and color harmonies help you choose colors that look great together. For more information, see Working with colors and materials.

Enhanced! Performance

Many areas of PaintShop Pro have seen performance improvements. Some notable examples: Switching between workspaces is smoother, RAW image processing is speedier, and some brushes are up to 30% faster (Paint Brush, Airbrush, and the retouch brushes).

New! Smart Edge technology for brushes

The Smart Edge brush mode lets you tap into content-aware technology to apply brush strokes only to specific areas that match the brush stroke sample area—no path or selection required. Smart Edge is available from the Tool Options palette for many brush-based tools. For more information, see Choosing brush options.

New & Enhanced! Drag-and-drop layers

Building on the popular drag-and-drop improvements to layers in the last version of PaintShop Pro, PaintShop Pro X7 gives you even more control by letting you drag a layer from one image to another and drop it between or above a specific layer in the Layers palette.

New & Enhanced! A better way to start creative projects

The New Image dialog box has been redesigned with new category buttons that help you find the right preset for your project. A new visual display helps you view the dimensions and proportions. For custom sizes and settings, you still have access to a full range of controls.

Enhanced! Redesigned Adjust and Effect dialog boxes

Eight popular Adjust and Effect filters have been updated with a new layout: Selective Focus, Vignette, Retro Lab, Graduated Filter, Depth of Field, Red Eye Removal, Smart Photo Fix, and Digital Noise Removal. Bigger preview areas and an improved layout for the controls make it easier to get the results you want.

New! XMP support for RAW files

Corel PaintShop Pro can now read and import data saved in XMP files. XMP sidecar files are created by many RAW image-editing applications, such as Corel® AfterShot™ Pro, as a way of saving image metadata without affecting the original RAW files. After editing in PaintShop Pro, you can save the metadata to the associated XMP files. For more information, see Working with XMP files.

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