Only $79.99
PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio
The professional digital image editing solution
Whether you’re quickly resizing holiday snaps, removing flaws from portraits, adjusting exposure and color levels, restoring old images, importing Photoshop® documents, layering and masking professional artwork, or transforming photos with unique effects and artistic styles, PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio has everything you need to achieve the highest quality results – fast.
Get the best from your images with PhotoPlus X3:
- Get results fast with QuickFix, Makeover, Raw Image, and Print Studios
- Achieve stunning photo effects with High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging
- Bring old or damaged photos back to life with tools that restore and repair
- Turn photos into art in watercolor, van Gogh, and other styles
- Compatible with many image formats including Adobe® Photoshop®
- High-end photo editing smart filters, layers and support for 48-bit images
Easy Imaging Studios
Makeover Studio
Cut Out Images
Add Special Effects
Fix & Enhance
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Raw Studio New
The Raw Studio makes it easy to process and adjust Raw images straight from your digital camera. Open images in their native format, adjust exposure and make other professional adjustments, before saving the results as a standard image.
- Dedicated studio for handling Raw photos at highest quality
- Correct exposure and adjust white & black levels
- Fix chromatic aberration and other camera or image flaws
- Save Raw files to high or full-color RGB or Greyscale images
QuickFix Studio Improved
The brilliant QuickFix Studio is a one-stop image fixing shop allowing you to easily make several photo adjustments in a single hit. Straighten horizons, adjust lighting and color saturation, sharpen, and crop to print size.
- Combine multiple fixes in one flowing operation in a single Studio
- Before-and-after views for comparing fixed and original images
- Fix red-eye, crop, straighten and adjust your favourite portraits
- Improve balance, adjust brightness, contrast and more
- Create stylised greyscale shots and crisp black and white logos
Makeover Studio
Give your portrait subjects a perfect makeover – no photo touch-up expertise required! The powerful Makeover Studio helps you automatically fix photos, carrying out editing steps for you, and giving you guidance to correct flaws and blemishes.
- A one-stop-shop for producing perfect portraits
- Remove blemishes, spots, marks, or scars
- Fix red-eye, brighten eyes and whiten teeth
- Smooth away wrinkles and laughter lines
High Quality Resizing
Enlarge images without suffering from jaggies or blocky, pixellated results – PhotoPlus X3 uses some very smart mathematics to ensure you get the best results every time, whether enlarging or reducing images.
- Size images to perfectly suit your needs in print or online
- Resize using pixel measurements or desired print dimensions
- Nearest pixel, bilinear, bicubic and Lanczos3 methods available
Repair and Restore
Bring your photos back to life! Simply paint away damage and recover original texture without harming original tones, then adjust contrast, black and white levels, color, and more to undo years of fading.
- Use blemish, patch, clone, scratch remover and other repair tools
- Correct black, white, and different color levels for quality results
- Paint away damaged areas with simple and smart healing brushes
Smart Photo Adjustments IMPROVED
Fixing photos to a professional standard has never been so flexible – automated and manual adjustments to contrast, levels, curves, blur, sharpen dodge and burn, and more, make PhotoPlus X3 a digital darkroom dream.
- Manually tweak images with smart dodge and burn tools
- Advanced adjustments include levels and curves controls
- Paint with sharpen, blur, smudge, dodge and burn brushes
- One-click fixes for fast correction with AutoContrast and AutoLevels
Shadows, Highlights and Midtones
Too much shade or a glaring hotspot detracting from your image? Fix under and overexposed sections of your photos in one single operation, without having to learn complex filters, graphs and photographic jargon.
- Simple controls let you adjust shadows, midtones and highlights
- Restrict brightness adjustments to a narrow range of tones
- Dedicated correction for balancing under and overexposed regions
Creativity
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High Dynamic Range Imaging NEW
Merge multiple shots each taken using different camera settings in our HDR Studio for impressive and memorable images – show detail across the range of light conditions our eyes can adjust to.
- Unique, easy-to-use HDR Studio gives Hollywood-quality images
- Merge shots with different exposure levels for dramatic results
- Blend rich colors, mood shading, and areas of clear bright detail
- Edit images in all their original glory – with up to 281 trillion colors!
Become an Instant Artist
Can’t paint, won’t paint? PhotoPlus X3 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, Watercolor.
- Create works of art in an instant with artistic styles presets
- Adjust settings to fine tune the look of your artwork
- Save your favourite settings as presets for future use
Add Special Effects IMPROVED
Select from over 75 fantastic effects and adjustments, such as Page Curl, Halftone, Diffuse Glow, Motion Blur, and Lighting to professionally enhance your images. Use the improved Filter Gallery as your one-stop-shot for applying and combining effects.
- Professional-quality image filters in an easy-to-use effects studio
- Combine and adjust multiple effects in one operation
- See dynamic before-and-after split views for simplicity
- Apply editable effects as smart Filter and Adjustment layers
Cut Out Images
A powerful Extract tool gives you a dedicated studio for removing backgrounds from your images, so you can place subjects against new backgrounds or give them total focus. Paint around the area to keep and let PhotoPlus work its magic!
- Prepare images for use in DTP documents or web pages
- Produce professional composite images with extracted content
- Have fun by placing photo subjects into different images
- Customizable cut out controls give precise results
Paint with Artistic Brushes
Fantastic artistic brushes open the door to creative digital painting with brush effects including Charcoal, Pencil and Watercolor. Other brush categories including Clouds, Color and Scatter – and Picture Brushes for really fun effects.
- Paint brush strokes of varying size and strengths for realism
- Support for pressure-sensitive graphics tablets
- Make your own brushes from a selected area in an image
- Import popular Corel® Paint Shop Pro® picture tubes
- Context toolbar offers quick access to flow, size, and other options
Draw Shapes and Text IMPROVED
Put your sweetheart in a heart shape or your mother-in-law behind bars! PhotoPlus X3’s vector shape tools offer powerful freehand drawing capabilities and easily customizable QuickShapes.
- Create filled shapes or selection shapes to apply effects within
- Easily add to and subtract from shaped selection areas
- Use QuickShapes with slider nodes for perfect shapes instantly
- Create hearts, spirals, stars, clouds, speech bubbles and more
Animation
PhotoPlus’s fantastic animation features offer powerful automatic ‘tweening’, instantly creating frames for smooth, professional-looking animations. Add effects to images, even make photo subjects dance!
- Open, edit, and save Animated GIF files, with image optimisation
- Clone frames and set durations for cool stop-frame animations
- Add amazing effects with smooth motion created automatically
- Use different images or add text to frames for animated web graphics
Fun with Warping
Have fun with your photos using magical elastic brushes, even fine-tune and deform the shape of subjects in your photos. Make massive foreheads, shrink and enlarge eyes, change perspective – and much more.
- Thickening and slimming warp brushes help reshape with ease
- Pinch and punch brushes enlarge and shrink areas
- Elastic warp gives you magically stretchy pixels
- A powerful mesh warp tool lets you fluidly reshape geometry
Organise & Share
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Sort and Search
Let PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio help you stay organised. Find images quickly with powerful search tools, tag images using keywords, view your photo collection on a calendar and much more.
- Organise images into albums to enjoy time and time again
- Quickly find and retrieve images based on any search criteria
- Tag images to categorise them just the way you want
- View images by date, keyword, and at different sizes
- See your image collection in date order on a virtual calendar
Print and Share IMPROVED
Enjoy your perfected images by printing and sharing them with friends, family, colleagues and more. Print individual or multiple images per sheet, create contact sheets, or produce attractive print designs.
- Make postcards, calendars and other photo print projects
- Create industry-standard image file types and PDFs
- Resize whole folders of images for the web in one operation
- Burn Photo CDs to share large images and collections easily
- Create contact sheets showing thumbnails of your photo collection
Make Movie Slideshows
Create compelling slideshows from your photo collections, choosing from a range of transitions, your own background music and even movie clips. Preview slideshows on your PC or save for sharing!
- See your collection scroll by in a slideshow with quality transitions
- Combine pictures, movie clips and audio backing tracks
- Watch on your PC or save as WMV videos for sharing with others
Compatible IMPROVED
PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio can open 24 different image types spanning 33 file extensions, including popular JPG, PNG and TIFF, modern Microsoft® HD Photo, and professional Adobe® Photoshop® files with layers!
- Open and edit images using numerous supported file extensions
- Work with Adobe® Photoshop® users with PSD file support
- Use compatible Photoshop® special effects plug-ins
- Edit popular file types in perfect quality such as lossless JPG
- Open Raw files from over 300 digital camera models
Perfect Optimized Image Exports IMPROVED
Make sure your images look their very best, within whatever publishing constraints you face. The Export Optimizer gives you control over file size, quality, color depth, image dimensions and more – with a dynamic live preview.
- Preview and compare up to 4 different export settings at once
- See the direct effect of changing compression settings
- Balance file size and quality for the exact results you’re after
- Make perfect images for printing or the web with this one tool
Backup Your Photos
PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio ensures that your photos will remain safe and secure, offering full or incremental backups to CD or DVD. If you’ve categorised your images you’ll also have all your keyword data backed up, too.
- Backup albums to CD or DVD to protect against hard disk failure
- Automatically backup only new images added since last backup
- Span multiple backup discs for safeguarding larger collections
- Backed up albums include keyword categorisation data for all images
Easy to Use
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Easy Imaging Studios NEW & IMPROVED
Quickly fix and enhance your images with a new and improved range of special imaging Studios, each with the right tools and help at hand. All the special Studios help achieve the best results with no expertise required.
- QuickFix Studio speedily corrects many common photo flaws
- Raw Studio offers professional edits to high quality Raw images
- Black & White Studio gives you quality, moody images with ease
- HDR Merge Studio has adjustments perfect for dramatic results
- Makeover Studio gives skin smoothing and more to enhance subjects
Automated How To Tab IMPROVED
Help is always on-hand with an interactive How To guide, offering on-screen advice and even carrying out editing steps for you with amazing “Show me How” and “Do This For Me” commands just a click away.
- Guides for photography basics and editing techniques
- The friendly advice includes achieving specific artistic end results
- ‘Show Me How’ and ‘Do This For Me’ links make editing a breeze!
- Simple terminology explains jargon and processes in a friendly way
Great Tutorials IMPROVED
PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio’s 25 printable tutorials offer step-by-step guidance for various editing basics and photo retouching techniques. Purchase the optional Studio Extras DVD for creative content and even more handy project-based tutorials.
- Tutorials in basic, advanced, and creative categories
- Animated menu system makes tutorials easy to browse and use
- All the tutorials are PDFs; easy to navigate, read and print
- Sample files to work with are provided wherever necessary
Customizable Interface IMPROVED
PhotoPlus X3 offers you a no-nonsense user interface, with many tools and controls organized in free-floating tabbed windows. Open and close tabs to suit your workflow, move them around – it’s up to you.
- Customizable tabbed layout keeps tools and settings close by
- Hide all tabs at the press of a button for maximum working area
- Save favourite or popular tool settings in the Tool Presets tab
- Access multiple photos quickly in the Documents tab
Speed Enhanced IMPROVED
PhotoPlus X3 is optimized for modern multi-core and hyper-threaded processors, so there’s no hanging around waiting for things to happen. There are also plenty of keyboard shortcuts for the speediest editing workflows!
- Performs complex processing – fast
- Optimized for multi-core and hyperthreaded processors
- Modify Undo system to improve performance or adjust levels
Windows Vista Certified
Serif’s PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio is fully Windows Vista® certified, supporting Vista styles, previews, and searchability. Not using Vista? Don’t worry, PhotoPlus X3 works great with Windows XP, too.
- Windows Vista® certified with Vista styles and effects
- Find pictures fast with scalable previews of PhotoPlus files
- Also works perfectly with Windows XP
Professional & Powerful
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Adobe® Photoshop® Import and Export
A real asset for anyone looking to collaborate with other professional digital artists, PhotoPlus X3 supports import, editing and even export of Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files with layers intact.
- Work with Photoshop® files without having to buy Photoshop®!
- Open, edit and export Photoshop® PSD images
- Layers are maintained and remain fully editable where possible
Macros and Batch Processing IMPROVED
Save time and effort by using macros – recorded editing actions you can replay again and again – then save even more time by batch processing – editing whole folders of images in one hit.
- Record your editing actions for efficient, consistent repeated edits
- Make quick edits using our collection of over 200 recorded macros
- Batch process folders using a macro to edit lots of images at once
- Convert formats, rename, and resize images quickly and easily
- Boost color or exposure for all your holiday photos with little effort
Raw Image Support IMPROVED
Open professional-quality unprocessed Raw files from over 300 digital cameras and edit them at the highest quality in PhotoPlus X3. Maintain full quality in the Raw Studio and make further enhancements in PhotoPlus before choosing an export format.
- Open images at full quality thanks to high color and Raw support
- Maintain image information embedded in Raw images
- Make changes to Raw images before choosing a standard image format
High Color Support NEW
Open and edit 48-bit images with up to 281 trillion colors, and ensure your on-screen representations of color are as accurate as possible with internationally-recognised ICC color support.
- Open, edit and create images using 16-bits-per-channel color
- Enjoy smooth color graduations with up to 281 trillion colors
- Output images as RGB or CMYK PDFs with color profile info
- Include registration, crop, and color marks for professional results
See Handy Photo Information IMPROVED
PhotoPlus X3 can read, store, display and export EXIF, XMP and IPTC data that is often captured when you take your photos – refer to this useful information while editing to help you get the best results.
- See useful information stored with your photos in a new window
- View exposure, shutter and other technical information
- Check which camera was used to take your pictures!
- Keep this information when you edit and save images
Smart Filter and Adjustment Layers IMPROVED
Make impressive adjustments and apply filter effects using non-destructive, editable layers. Adjustment Layers and Filter Layers are professional tools made easy, and not normally found in affordable photo editors!
- Make corrections and fix images using adjustment layers
- Filter layers easily apply non-destructive special effects
- Edit your adjustment and filters layers at any time
- Organize filter and adjustment layers in layer groups
Layers and Masks
In addition to professional fixing Studios, PhotoPlus X3 sports full and flexible layer management for creating composite images, with masks for full control over layer transparency.
- Combine images using layers, hide and reveal layers easily
- Manage layers with locks, groups, effects, and opactity controls
- Use masks to blend layers and create gradient transparency
- Make edits on duplicate layers to protect original artwork