Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

PaintShop Pro 2023 brings sparkle to your digital world

Get the most out of every shot you take with Corel PaintShop Pro 2023. This advanced image editor includes a versatile selection of professional editing and graphic design tools, as well as time-saving AI solutions.

• Image editing
• Graphic design
• Intelligent solutions

The complete solution for image editing with Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

• Optimize photos with AI
  Rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance your images with the click of a button and instantly bring out the best in every photo.
• Edit photos like a pro
  Edit, retouch, and fix your photos with a comprehensive collection of tools suitable for all experience levels.
• Create graphic designs
  Use intuitive text tools, brushes, textures and patterns, and drawing and painting tools to create inspiring designs.
• Impressive effects
  Experiment with hundreds of creative filters and great effects to create, print, and share personalized photos.
• Choose from multiple workspaces
  Selection and customization are at the heart of PaintShop Pro, which offers multiple workspaces that can be customized to help you work efficiently.

What's new in Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

There's real intelligence behind every great image. Highly effective features and tools based on artificial intelligence and machine learning technology make it possible to create something truly unique with this photo editor.

• NEW AfterShot Lab
  Now integrated with PaintShop Pro, AfterShot Lab gives you a variety of professional and powerful tools for complete RAW editing. With built-in RAW image processing, you don't need to run additional applications or multiple editing processes in parallel.
• OPTIMIZED Frame Tool
  Enrich the visual story your images tell! With the optimized frame tool, you can create shapes (crop masks) based on symmetrical and preset shapes or vector text objects, or convert existing vector and text objects into shapes. You can then fill these shapes with images, patterns, or colors to create surreal, avant-garde, or even playful effects.
• NEW Focus Stacking
  Use the new Focus Stacking feature to combine multiple photos of the same subject, each taken at a different focus distance, into one image that has a greater depth of field than the individual source images.
• OPTIMIZED real-time blend mode preview
  Quickly check results when blending layers with the new blend mode preview. Simply hover over the drop-down list options in the Layers palette. Creatively blend layers and quickly preview them with the easy-to-use and intuitive Blend Mode tool.
• NEW Align to Objects
  Use the new Align to Objects feature to quickly and precisely align objects. You can use the Edit Frame to automatically align two objects with high precision, eliminating extra steps in the editing process.
• OPTIMIZED usability and performance
  Benefit from program-wide improvements! More content is now visible on the redesigned New from Template page, and new filtering and sorting options let you quickly search for specific topics. When editing vectors, you can now achieve perfect results by precisely entering rotation values and angles. Benefit from a 30% performance increase in the Refinement Brush and support for the latest cameras, among other improvements!

Corel PaintShop Pro 2023 is real. smart. creative.

Get exactly the results you want with PaintShop Pro's innovative tools and features.

Powerful photo editing tools
Rely on the versatile selection of professional tools in this photo editor to bring out the best in every shot.

Basic tools
Crop your photos using image composition tools like the Golden Ratio and Rule of Thirds to bring a specific area into focus. Resize your photos using presets or choose a specific percentage or pixel or print size. Restore and repair old photos with the Remove Image Blemishes tool, and restore color and contrast to faded photos with the Correct Faded Colors tool.

Adjustment tools
Use a variety of powerful adjustment tools to edit your photos. These include brightness and contrast, fill light and clarity, faded color correction, white balance, hue and saturation, noise removal, resonance, sharpening, color correction, and tone corrections and curves.

Selection and correction tools
Isolate the area to be selected with various selection tools, and refine the selection with the Refinement brush. Correct distortion, vignetting, and color mismatch in your photos with the Lens Correction tools, and use the Straighten tool to correct a slanted horizon or the Perspective Correction tool to make it look like the photo was taken from a different angle.

RAW, HDR, and 360° camera support
The professional tools in AfterShot Lab, now integrated with PaintShop Pro, expand your RAW editing capabilities. By combining multiple, differently exposed shots of the same subject, you can create unique HDR photos. Edit photos taken with a 360-degree camera: Straighten photos by rotating them. Quickly remove the tripod from a photo or create an interesting "planet" effect.

Time-saving tools
Reduce repetition and speed up complex image edits with scripts. Capture a series of edits as a script that can then be applied to any photo at any time. Automate the simultaneous editing of multiple photos (such as adding a watermark or image border, or resizing) with batch processing.

Creative features for graphic design thanks to Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

Discover a world of unlimited creative possibilities to bring your designs to life.

• Layers and masks
  Layers and masks are essential for advanced image editing, photo composition, and graphic design. Use multiple, non-destructive layers to manipulate your images and effortlessly create photo compositions. Create masks to make parts of a layer visible or invisible, add blends between layers, and create precise special effects.
• Text tools
  Addtext elements to your images to create interesting projects like memes and image quotes. Adjust settings such as font, size, style, alignment, line spacing, and kerning with a complete set of typography tools.
• Draw, paint, and fill tools
  Paint with the application's built-in brushes or import brushes from Adobe Photoshop to bring your design ideas to life. Draw with vector illustration tools and experiment with color palettes, gradients, patterns, and image stamps to take your designs to the next level.
• Templates and creative content
  Access a variety of built-in templates to design collages, greeting cards, social media images, web banners, brochures, business cards, and more. Use many different inspirational brushes, textures, patterns and other creative content included in the product to save time when creating your designs.

Smart solutions with Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

With the various smart tools included in PaintShop Pro, you can enhance your photos in no time.

• AI-powered tools
  Enlarge images without unwanted distortion with AI Upsampling, quickly remove artifacts and noise from your photos with AI Artifact Removal and AI Noise Removal, create stylized versions of your photos with AI Style Transfer artistic effects, and replace the background in an image with AI Background Replacement.
• Content-specific tools
  Remove blemishes, objects, and distracting elements with the Object Removal tool, or try content-based editing tools like SmartClone, Magic Move, and Magic Fill to automatically fill empty areas.
• Portrait and retouching tools
  Remove red eyes, blemishes, and unwanted lines, or smooth wrinkles, whiten teeth, and even out skin tones with the Makeup and Retouch tools. And create professional-looking portraits effortlessly with AI Portrait mode, which automatically analyzes portrait photos and adds a bokeh blur to the background.
• 1-click corrections, depth of field, and selective focus.
  Leave the application of color and sharpness corrections to "One-Step Photo Correction" or use "Smart Photo Correction" to fine-tune settings and create a perfect photo. Add a soft focus, play with the depth of field of your photos, or apply a bokeh effect to make parts of the image sharp and the rest blurry. Or use selective focus to create a tilt-shift effect that makes the objects in your photos look like miniatures.
• Instant effects
  Preview a variety of preset photo effects (such as film-style, black-and-white, landscape, retro, traditional, and art effects), or combine multiple effects to enhance the effect. Choose from hundreds of effects (including 3D, art, lighting, and reflection effects) to add a drop shadow or frame to your images, or turn photos into sketches or paintings.

Save, manage, and share the work you've created with Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

PaintShop Pro not only supports your creativity, but also practical aspects like saving, transferring, organizing, and sharing your images.

Comprehensive file compatibility
Import, save, and export files in a variety of supported file formats so your workflow isn't interrupted.

Photo management
Preview and organize your photos and streamline your photo-editing workflow with PaintShop Pro's Manage workspace. Add tags to your photos, create catalogs, edit multiple photos at once, and review metadata and file information.

Learning materials and support
Take advantage of an extensive list of product information, tips, tricks, support offerings, and shortcuts.

Learning materials
Choose from many helpful video tutorials on the Welcome tab, or visit the PaintShop Pro learning page for more help. For more tips and tricks, visit the award-winning PaintShop Pro Learning Studio.

Support for the latest pens and graphics tablets
The program supports the latest mainstream and WinTab-enabled graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink. This means you can use a stylus when drawing, painting, and applying adjustments and effects to exert more control.

Seamless transfer of content and plug-ins
To simplify the upgrade process, content from previous versions can be effortlessly transferred to the new version. Plug-ins, scripts, brush tips, color palettes, gradients, patterns, textures, and effects that you previously installed.

Plug-in support
Expand the capabilities of PaintShop Pro with 64-bit plug-ins developed by third-party developers, such as Adobe plug-ins or brushes, Topaz Labs, Nik Collection by DXO, and many more. Import PSD files and export your files to Photoshop to work effortlessly across platforms.

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Corel PaintShop Pro 2023 system requirements

Operating system

• Windows 11, Windows 10 (recommended is version 1903 or later with the latest service pack; 64-bit editions)*.
• For virtualizations: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019.
• Intel® Celeron G-series or AMD® Phenom II and higher (Intel® i5 or AMD® Ryzen-series and higher is recommended to support AI features)
• 4 GB RAM (8 GB is recommended to support AI functions)
• 3 GB of free hard drive space (4 GB is recommended)
• Screen resolution of 1366 x 768 (recommended screen resolution is 1920 x 1080 at 100 dpi). Supports up to 250 dpi on screens with equivalent resolution
• DirectX 11 (or higher) compatible graphics card with latest driver (DirectX 12 compatible discrete VGA card for GPU acceleration recommended)
• Internet connection required for online features and video tutorials

Supported languages

• English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese

Supported import formats

• AI, BMP, CAL, CALS, CGM, CLP, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, GIF, HDP, HEIF, HEIC, HIF, IFF, IMG, J2K, JIF, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPS, MAC, MPO, MRW, MSP, PBM, PCD**, PCT, PCX, PDF, PGM, PIC, PICT, PNG, PNS, PPM, PS, PSD, PSP (PSP image files), RAS, RAW, RIF, RLE, SCT, SVG, SVGZ, TGA, TIF, UFO, WBM, WBMP, WDP, WEBP, WMF, WPG***.
• Support for RAW files from over 800 camera models, including the following file extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, K25, KDC, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F (view full model list)

Supported export formats

• BMP, CAL, CALS, CLP, CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, AI, PS, GIF, GIF, HDP, WDP, IFF, IMG, JP2, J2K, JPC, JPG, JIF, JPE, JPEG, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PPM, PNG, PSD, PSP (PSPIMAGE files), RAS, RAW, RIF, RIFF, RLE, SCT, CT, JPS, PNS, TGA, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, WBM, WEBP, WMF

Brush formats

• PaintShop Pro brush (.pspbrush)
• Adobe Photoshop brush (.abr)
• Jasc brush (.jbr)