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Unique
High-Quality
Image Resizing
PhotoPlus 9 incorporates amazing
intelligent resizing, which uses advanced ‘Lanczos 3’ algorithms to ensure you
get
the best possible quality when enlarging or shrinking your photos. Outstanding
results
from all your photos are easier than ever.
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Sensational
Picture Brushes
Have you ever fancied painting pictures with musical notes, pool balls, or road
signs? No? Well once you’ve tried
PhotoPlus 9’s fantastic picture brushes,
we’re sure you’ll be totally addicted to
this unique, fun & creative feature.
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Astounding
3D Lighting and Surface Effects
Advanced algorithms bring flat shapes to life! Vary surface and source
light properties. Start with a pattern or a function, adjust parameters
for incredible surface contours, textures, fills. Optimized for Intel® Pentium® 4
processors.
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3D
Painting using Depth Maps
Add instant dimensionality to your artwork. Painting or erasing on a layer's
depth map appears as raised or lowered strokes on the image! Use with 3D
layer effects to achieve "carved" side-view textures.
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Instant
Effects Gallery
Puts our 3D technology and layer effects at your disposal, with no learning
curve simply choose a surface texture, pattern, glow, or bevel then customize
as you wish. Add your own categories and effects!
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Instant
Artist Painting Effects
Customizable, automatic effects that turn your photos into works of art.
Choose any style (Expressionist, Impressionist, Pointillist) or medium
(Oil, Pencil, Paint and Ink, Watercolor), then dial up the effect you want!
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Extended
Import Capabilities
A great addition, new in this latest version is the ability to import Paint
Shop Pro® 7(.PSP) files, with the layers of the image and even any
layer effects retained after they're imported making them fully editable.
You can also import Paint Shop Pro (.TUB) picture tubes to use as PhotoPlus
Picture Brushes!
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Improved
Photo Correction
Whenever you're looking to retouch a digital image, PhotoPlus 8's improved
Hue, Saturation & Lightness controls added to the comprehensive range
of photo fixing tools from previous versions, mean it has everything you
need to correct under or over-exposed images and a host of other common
photographic problems.
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Enhanced
Mesh Warp
PhotoPlus' unique mesh warping power has been significantly enhanced – this
fantastic tool makes it easy to instantly transform areas of your image,
and now with PhotoPlus 8, it’s easy to enlarge, shrink, rotate or skew
any part of an image within the Mesh Warp function itself.
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Enhanced
Export Optimizer
PhotoPlus' popular Export Optimizer has been further improved to make it
even easier to get the best balance between file size and quality for all
your images. The redesigned interface includes additional image information,
providing everything you need to get exactly the result you're after.
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Enhanced
Selection Modes
Lots of news here! Paint to Select mode lets you literally "brush on" selectedness. Border, Threshold,
and Smooth commands for more versatility. Store and load selections between any open file.
Use combination buttons (as for shapes) to define cutout selection regions. Convert selections into paths or layers.
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Combinatorial
Shapes
Now create multiple shapes on a single layer! For each additional shape, you can add,
subtract, intersect, or exclude with previous shapes for frames, cutouts and custom contours.
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Advanced
Alignment!
Quickly align shapes or text between multiple linked layers. Smart Resize means more efficiency,
less loss. The Deform Mesh tool for reshaping any freeform region. New filters like Intelligent Blur,
Maximum, and Minimum... All filters rewritten for improvements across the board!
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More
Powerful Masking
Masks now work on shape and text layers, too! Plus they now move independently of their layers and store their
own colors. Extra convenience with mask preview thumbnails and key-assisted mode-switching, and much more.
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Universal
Gradient Fill Editing
One master dialog allows editing of five fill types, now combining both color and transparency.
Choose from a built-in gallery of presets, add your own categories and fills. Works with all
PhotoPlus tools and effects that employ gradient fills!
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Freehand
and Bézier Curve and Shape Drawing
Powerful vector-drawing tools let you produce any shape under the sun with
controllable, connectable, editable line segments.
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More UI Improvements
New Layers tab buttons for most-used operations, plus preview thumbnails
for masks and depth maps. Zoom to a region. View a shaded exclusion zone when cropping.
A redesigned Export Optimizer. New Layout Guides, plus optional Snapping to grid or
guides for finer control when painting or erasing.
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Paths
Use the full range of line- and shape-drawing tools to create editable outlines via the new Paths tab. Convert paths
to or from selections on any layer. "Stroke" paths using any brush to create bordered shapes!
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