Corel PaintShop Pro X9 User guide

Brand: Corel

Model: PaintShop Pro X9

Category: Graphics software

Type: User guide

Corel PaintShop Pro X9 is powerful image-editing software that helps anyone produce stunning photos and designs. New features like the New from Template option and the Screenshot tool featuring Smart Capture make it easier than ever to create professional-looking projects and capture images from your screen. With a wide range of editing tools, support for various file formats, and the ability to create custom templates, PaintShop Pro X9 is a versatile tool for photographers, graphic designers, and creative professionals.

Contents

1 | Introducing Corel PaintShop Pro X9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 | What’s included? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 | Top new and enhanced features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

4 | Defining features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Corel PaintShop Pro X9 Reviewer’s Guide [ 1 ]

Introducing Corel

PaintShop

Pro X9

Photos matter. Truer today than ever before.

With the worldwide rise of smartphone cameras and the takeover of visual social media, the power of

imagery has redefined the way we communicate at home, at work, and at school. From iconic

photojournalism that captures our attention, to advertisements that stay with us, and precious family

memories, great photos tell stories and create strong emotional connections.Corel

PaintShop

Pro X9

helps you harness that power.

Whether you’re a passionate photo enthusiast, a creative digital designer, or a business professional

enhancing a project, PaintShop Pro offers a remarkably robust imaging toolset.

Each improvement to PaintShop Pro X9 has been built around three core goals, designed to meet the

needs of today’s busy creatives and professionals.

• Save time — We could all use more time. No matter where we work with photos, there’s always

more to do, higher expectations, and fewer hours to finish it all.

• Make it easier — All the tools in the world won’t help if you can’t use them. With discipline and a

strong user focus, we’ve created a product that makes key tasks simpler, helping you achieve a great

result with minimal effort.

• Boost creativity — Coming up with fresh ideas isn’t always easy. Ultimately, we want to empower

everyone with imaging potential. PaintShop Pro X9 offers amazing new tools that anyone can use, at

work or at home.

Focused on speed-to-results, PaintShop Pro X9 delivers all the tools you need, together with simpler

implementation, better training, and more resources. We’re also staying subscription-free, remaining

true to our commitment to affordability and perpetual licensing.

At home or at work, one copy of PaintShop Pro can meet the vast majority of anyone’s image editing

needs. Replace a subscription to Adobe Photoshop CC, stop using third-party screenshot tools, or add

business graphics and annotation tools. Why buy multiple products when, for most, one will do? That’s

the power and benefit of using PaintShop Pro.

Choose us for a complete and comprehensive image editing toolkit, or simply because you love

photography. Either way, we hope you’ll see the value and heart we’ve built into PaintShop Pro X9.

Sincerely,

Greg Wood, Sr. Product Director

& the Corel Photo Team

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PaintShop

Pro customer profiles

Here’s a glimpse of the people who are driving

PaintShop Pro’s success.

Photographers

First and foremost, PaintShop Pro is designed

from the ground up for the photo enthusiast.

Whether they’re just starting out as hobbyists

with their first DSLR, prosumers, or photo

enthusiasts, they need tools that help them

achieve their creative vision. That might be the

quick adjustment of 1000 photos from a wedding

shoot, or it might be detailed restoration of a

unique old photograph. PaintShop Pro provides

the comprehensive ability to edit, make quick

adjustments and manage an entire photo

collection within one product.

Graphic Designers and Creative Consumers

PaintShop Pro's layers, vector tools, and painting

and drawing tools are ideal for many graphic

designers—whether at home or at work.

Graphic designers tend to live in our Edit

workspace and use layers to make a variety of

compositions, including scrapbook content,

posters, web graphics and more. Support for

vector illustration is key here, with use cases

similar to what we see with Photoshop.

We often emphasize photography with

PaintShop Pro, but design tools are part of

PaintShop’s “DNA”, from its earliest development.

Graphic designers produce content for many

projects and want tools that help them express

their creativity. Whether they’re working

photographers, graphic design professionals,

video producers, or web professionals, they want

a photo editor that lets them work with vector

and raster layers, supports industry-standard file

formats, and gives them powerful creative

options.

Creative consumers produce content to share

with friends and family. They want a photo editor

that’s easy to use and gives them access to a wide

range of features and effects.

Business

Whether in a small business or a large enterprise,

PaintShop Pro is enormously valuable at work.

The photo editing capabilities, design tools, and

ability to open a wide variety of image formats,

make it a versatile application that is likely to

generate an immediate return on its attractive

price.

Small business owners, independent or

professional marketers, and social media

specialists want a photo editor that fits their

budget and lets them quickly produce high-

quality graphics in-house.

Whether cleaning up images in engineering firms

or creating graphics for social media, we know

that the volume licensing and network

deployability has made PaintShop Pro an

excellent choice for business settings.

Education

PaintShop Pro is the perfect software for students

to learn the fundamentals of photography and

design, setting them up for success in today’s

technology-driven workplace.

From elementary schools to universities,

PaintShop Pro is making it easy for students and

schools to get ahead by delivering cutting-edge

software at the lowest price possible. Flexible

licensing options give students and teachers

access to industry-leading tool and compatibility

features at a fraction of the retail price.

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What’s included?

Application

• Corel

PaintShop

Pro X9: This powerful,

versatile image-editing software helps anyone

produce stunning photos and designs. It offers

a wealth of features that help you organize,

edit, and share your photos and artistic

creations.

• 32- and 64-bit versions: PaintShop Pro X9 is

available in 32- and 64-bit versions.

Documentation

• Online Help, Learning Center palette

•PDF User Guide

• Guided Tour, a step-by-step virtual tour of the

interface and new features

• In-product link directly to video and written

tutorials in the Discovery Center

• Getting Started windows provide an overview

of some tools and features

• PDF Scripting Guide, available for download

Minimum system requirements

•Windows

10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 with

latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit

editions)

•Intel

or AMD 1.5 GHz or faster processor with

SSE2 support (multi-core processor

recommended)

• 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended)

• 1 GB of free hard disk space (2 GB

recommended)

•1024  768 resolution, 16-bit color display

(1366  768 resolution, 24-bit or higher color

display recommended)

•DirectX

9 or higher compatible video adapter

with latest driver

• Internet connection required for accessing

online features and video tutorials

•Microsoft

Internet Explorer

11 or higher

File format support

• Input: AI, BMP, CAL, CALS, CGM, CLP, CUR,

CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, GIF, HDP, IFF, IMG,

J2C, J2K, JIF, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPS, JPX,

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

RAW file support from more than 450 camera

models including 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR,

DNG, K25, KDC, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF,

RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F

• Output: BMP, CAL, CALS, CLP, CUT, DCX, DIB,

EMF, EPS, AI, PS, GIF, HDP, WDP, IFF, IMG, JP2,

J2C, J2K, JPC, JPX, 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, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, WBM,

WEBP, WMF

• Brush: PaintShop Pro Brush (.pspbrush),

Adobe Photoshop Brush (.abr), Jasc Brush (.jbr)

1. Supported on 32-bit installation only

2. WPG (WordPerfect Vector only) is only supported on 32-

bit installation; WordPerfect Bitmap is supported on both

32-bit and 64-bit installations

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Top new and enhanced features

Corel PaintShop Pro X9 is powerful image-editing

software that helps anyone produce stunning

photos and creative designs.

New! New from Template: PaintShop Pro X9

helps you jump right into your work with new

templates. With New from Template, you don't

need to be an expert to create impressive

professional-looking projects. From greeting

cards and collages to brochures, there are eye-

catching, easy-to-use designs that let you fast-

track projects. You can even save your own

layouts as templates to speed up future design

and photo projects.

Build something great, faster than ever with new project

templates.

New! Screenshot featuring Smart Capture:

It’s never been easier to demonstrate,

communicate and collaborate with clarity thanks

to new screenshot tools. Great for creating

detailed presentations or visual instructions, new

Screenshot is a one-stop tool for effortlessly

bringing an image into PaintShop Pro X9 for

editing or annotation. With new Smart Capture

mode, capturing an image from your screen is as

easy as hovering over the area you want to grab.

You can choose from a standard set of capture

dimensions or create your own presets. Fully

customizable capture and output options allow

you to create a personalized or automated

capture solution. With one powerful tool for all

your everyday imaging needs, you won't need

anything else.

Demonstrate, communicate and collaborate with clarity

using new Screenshot.

Give it a try

To capture screenshots

1 In the Edit workspace, choose File 

Screenshot  Setup.

2 Choose Smart Capture from the Method

drop-list.

Smart Capture captures an object by auto-

detecting screen elements (buttons, menus,

window areas) as you hover over the elements

with the pointer.

3 Click the Settings button.

4 On the Activate Capture page (click the first

dot along the bottom of the dialog box), and

choose Right-click.

5 On the Options page (click the second dot

along the bottom of the dialog box), choose

Include Cursor to include the pointer in the

capture.

6 On the Destination page (click the fourth dot

along the bottom of the dialog box), choose

Open in PaintShop to add the screenshot to

PaintShop Pro as a new image.

7 In the Screenshot dialog box, click Start.

8 Set up the screen to display the area you want

to capture and right-click.

9 Hover over the screen element you want to

capture, and when it appears highlighted, click

to capture. Your screenshot appears as a new

image in PaintShop Pro.

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New! Gradient Fill tool: Now it’s easier and

faster to adjust gradient fills in your photos and

projects. Using the Gradient Fill tool, it’s as simple

as dragging across the canvas, a selection, or a

shape, and adjusting gradient colors and

transitions onscreen. You can customize the

gradient interactively using nodes on the

gradient arrow and see the changes in real time,

keeping your creative flow on track.

Save time by dropping a gradient directly onto an image,

shape or selection.

New! Text Presets: You can apply creative looks

faster, accelerate editing tasks and discover fun

new text effects with free and for-purchase Text

Presets. What’s more, new text presets are added

regularly to PaintShop Pro automatically, so you’ll

always have new text options to keep your

designs fresh.

Get the creative looks you love faster and discover fun

new text effects

Enhanced! Text tool: The simplified text toolbar

lets you quickly find the text styles you want and

apply font and stroke colors more easily. You can

customize the text toolbar to display the tools

you use the most and hide the ones you don't.

Choose text colors quicker with the enhanced toolbar.

Give it a try

To add a gradient

1 Choose File  New.

2 In the New Image dialog box, click OK.

3 Click the Gradient Fill tool on the To ols

toolbar (grouped in a flyout with the Flood Fill

tool).

4 On the Tools Options palette, choose a

gradient type.

By default, the last gradient selected on the

Gradient page of the Material Properties

dialog box is applied.

5 Drag on the canvas to apply the gradient.

6 Do any of the following to customize the

gradient:

• To adjust the angle of the gradient, drag the

rotation handle.

• To add a color, drag a color swatch from the

Materials palette to the gradient line.

• To remove a color, drag a swatch away from

the gradient line.

• To adjust the transition between colors, drag

the swatches along the length of the gradient

line.

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New! Export Edit History: The new Export Edit

History feature of lets you quickly track all edits

that you’ve performed to a specific photo or

project. You can use it to build step-by-step

tutorials, show someone how to achieve a certain

effect, or save a record of all changes for legal

documentation. A new Save session history to

text file command in the History palette captures

all session edits to a text file so you can recall

them later, or you can use the Save Edit History

command in the Image Information dialog box

for a complete edit history.

Quickly document and share your edits using the new Export

Edit History feature.

Enhanced! Support for the latest

technologies: You can use your RTS-compatible

pen tablet or device, including the Microsoft

Windows Surface family of PCs, to experience a

world of creativity that's more natural, direct and

precise. PaintShop Pro X9 delivers truly

responsive pressure sensitivity and tilt, giving you

more control over your projects. What's more,

there's no stylus driver to install, so you can get to

work right away.

PaintShop Pro X9 supports the next generation of

photo-editing technology and innovation: depth-

aware photography. In the Adjust workspace, you

can save time editing XDM photos captured on a

RealSense-equipped tablet or camera by

applying effects to objects based on their

distance from the camera.

In addition PaintShop Pro X9 has added support

for 15 new RAW formats, including Canon, Nikon,

Olympus, Pentax, Panasonic, Leica and Sony

cameras.

Real-Time Stylus and Windows Tablet PC support ensure that

you can work on the go.

Enhanced! Windows Server 2016 support:

PaintShop Pro X9 is compatible with Windows

Server 2016, making it the perfect fit for any

organization in a virtualized environment — for

photo editing, graphics creation, screen capture

and annotation — whether you're hosting locally

or in the cloud.

Give it a try

To save a photo’s session history

1 Open an image, and in the Edit workspace,

perform edits or corrections, or apply effects.

2 Choose View  Palettes  History.

3 Click the down-facing arrow at the top-right of

the History palette, and choose Save session

history to text file.

4 In the Save As dialog box, in the File name

field, type a name for the file.

5 Choose the folder in which you want to save

the file from the Save in drop-list.

6 Choose a file format from the Save as type

drop-list.

7 Click Save.

You can save a photo’s entire edit history by

choosing Image  Image Information,

clicking the Edit History tab, and clicking Save

Edit History.

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Enhanced! Batch processing with New Batch

Smart Photo Fix: PaintShop Pro X9 makes it

easy to save time and increase productivity by

simultaneously applying adjustments to multiple

photos. When using batch processing, you can

now also run Smart Photo Fix, which analyzes a

photo and applies optimal color, brightness,

sharpness and saturation settings.

Save time and increase productivity by combining Smart

Photo Fix and batch processing.

Enhanced! Real-Time performance: PaintShop

Pro’s most widely used photo effects now offer

real-time performance, so you can see your

photo adjustments as you apply them for a quick

and responsive editing experience.

New! Guided Tour: You can get to work faster

and more efficiently thanks to the new guided

tour. It’s a great way to discover different ways

you can get the most out of PaintShop Pro X9.

Whether you are new to graphics software, an

experienced user, or someone familiar with other

graphics applications, this step-by-step virtual

tour will help you confidently find your way

around the interface and master new features in

no time.

Enhanced! Scripts: PaintShop Pro X9 scripts

bring the power of automation to photo editing,

reducing repetition and accelerating common or

complex photo-editing actions. You can record a

series of commands as a script that you can

playback at any time. This can save you

significant time with tedious tasks, which is

especially useful if you apply the same effect(s) to

many photos. Now you can run scripts in Silent

Mode, which suppresses any dialog boxes used in

the script, so you can apply them faster. When

you need to adjust your script, you can quickly

toggle dialog boxes back on in the Script menu. If

you want more automation in your workflow,

browse the Welcome Guide to add more useful

scripts to your collection.

You can use scripting to automate applying an effect to a

photo or series of photos.

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Defining features

Here’s a snapshot of features that are frequently

cited by users as the reason they chose PaintShop

Pro.

Three apps in one: With PaintShop Pro, you’ll

find dedicated Manage, Adjust, and Edit

workspaces that present tools and options for

each intended task. The refined workspaces

reduce clutter and duplication, which makes

PaintShop Pro more welcoming and easier to use.

PaintShop Pro X9 provides dedicated workspaces that let you focus on the task at hand.

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Text wrapping: Corel PaintShop Pro X9 makes it

easy to use text as a design element in your

creative projects. Text Wrapping lets you wrap

text inside any vector shape or selection. Simply

choose your shape or draw your selection using

any of the selection tools, and type your text. The

text automatically wraps within the shape. This is

an ideal effect for posters, scrapbooking,

brochures, collages, websites and other projects.

You can wrap text in selections (top) and vector shapes

(bottom).

Auto Selection tool: This tool lets you enclose

an image area in a bounding rectangle that

automatically detects and snaps to edge. It’s

quick and simple, and does most of the work for

you, which lets you focus on being creative.

The Auto Selection tool automatically detects and snaps

to the edges of an object area that you select.

Smart Selection Brush: This brush uses a photo

segmentation engine that lets you select objects

based on brushstrokes. Photo segmentation

collects pixels into regions that correspond to

separate surfaces, objects, or natural edges of an

object. This means that you can simply paint over

an object to select it, and you can build or reduce

the selection with additional brushstrokes. It’s a

fast, easy, and accurate way to isolate part of an

image.

You simply drag the Smart Selection Brush over an

image area to create and refine a selection.

Magic Move tool: Accelerate editing with

Magic Move, a content-aware tool that

automatically replaces the background when you

move an object or person. Simply select an area

and drag it to a new position. The empty area left

behind is automatically filled to match the

surrounding background

You can move people or objects with the Magic Move

tool.

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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.

You can make parts of a photo disappear with Magic Fill.

Shape Cutter and Text Cutter: You can use

vector shapes, such as Preset Shapes, to create

cutouts that are filled with the background

imagery. The effect is similar to using a clipping

mask, except the cutout object is created as a

new file with a transparent background—perfect

for collage, scrapbook, or other creative photo

projects.

Shape Cutter

Text Cutter

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HDR processing: PaintShop Pro lets you explore

HDR (High Dynamic Range) processing—a

method that combines multiple photos of the

same scene, shot at different exposures. HDR lets

you access a broader tonal range to create a final

image that can be breathtaking. PaintShop Pro

includes

Exposure Merge, for a full processing

control, Batch Merge, for processing multiple

HDR sets at one time, and an HDR effect, Single

RAW Photo, that simulates an HDR effect using

only one RAW photo.

Exposure Merge uses a three-step process:

• Merge — choose merge settings, apply

custom editing to photos

• HDR Adjustments — make adjustments to

merged HDR image

• Fine-Tune — refine the HDR image, reduce

noise, sharpen, etc.

You choose merge settings, make custom edits, and

preview the merged alignment during the first step of

Exposure Merge.

You can manually adjust the resultant HDR image or

apply a preset during the second step of Exposure Merge.

You can apply photo fixes, color and contrast corrections,

remove noise, and more during the final step of Exposure

Merge.

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PaintShop

Pro X9 Reviewer’s Guide

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Model: PaintShop Pro X9

Category: Graphics software

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