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The ultimate Photoshop alternative, inspired by you
Why rent when you can own? PaintShop Pro 2019 Ultimate is the affordable, user-friendly alternative to Photoshop. Tap into an exclusive bonus pack of premium animation, painting and photo editing software, including PhotoMirage Express, Painter Essentials 6, Perfectly Clear 3.5, and Corel AfterShot 3, plus a separate collection of brushes, textures, and backgrounds.
WHAT’S NEW?
It’s the PaintShop Pro you’ve always wanted: A photo editor built by you.
With creativity at its core, PaintShop Pro 2019 offers impressive new creative content and applies Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to deliver innovative new artistic presets. Thanks to community input, we’ve made over 50 performance improvements for faster photo editing, quicker cropping and better support, and we’ve focused on simplifying PaintShop Pro for the best possible user experience. Your ideas and feedback, combined with our development expertise, make PaintShop Pro 2019 the best version yet.
Performance Enhancements Boost Speed and Quality
Faster Crop
In response to user feedback, we’ve radically transformed the Crop tool to take advantage of your computer's GPU for a more responsive experience. Rotating and positioning PaintShop Pro's Crop tool is now 5x faster.
Over 50 Fixes
We listen to what you have to say. And we’ve made over 50 improvements to PaintShop Pro’s performance, stability and features, based on requests from you—our loyal users. From adding text to cropping, erasing, painting and working with brushes, our many revamps will make your editing experience smoother than ever.
Faster One-Step Photo Fix
One-Step Photo Fix just got faster. Now you can automatically apply several corrections to your photo at once, in much less time!
Enhanced 4K Support
Enjoy ultra high definition resolution with 4K. PaintShop Pro 2019's support for high DPI monitors means user interface text will appear larger on screen, making it easier to see and work with.
Latest Stylus and Graphics Tablet Support
Combine PaintShop Pro with a graphics tablet for more expressive results. PaintShop Pro 2019 supports all of the latest mainstream and WinTab-aware graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink, so whether you’re drawing, painting, applying adjustments or effects, you can use a pen for more control.
Autosave Improvements
Enjoy a more subtle Autosave. Work with more momentum and less interruptions, thanks to enhancements to the Autosave process. Now you have more control over the frequency of autosaving, and by default, you'll experience less disruptions.
Simplified with You in Mind
Seamless Content and Plugin Migration
PaintShop Pro 2019 easily migrates your content from previous versions, for a seamless upgrade experience. Plugins, scripts, brush tips, color palettes, gradients, patterns, textures, and effects that you've previously installed can be brought forward by going to File>Import>Content from Previous Versions.
Conveniently Enhance Photos from Your Crop Toolbar
We’ve extended the power of our Crop tool—a favorite tool amongst photo editors —to include PaintShop Pro’s most used enhancement features, including Instant Effects, One-Step Photo Fix, and Depth of Field. Bringing these popular tools to the front of your crop workflow saves you time and effort in achieving a perfect photo.
Customize Your UI Text Size
Increase PaintShop Pro 2019's text size for better visibility. Choose Small or Large text from the User Interface menu, to tailor your UI to you.
Next-Level Creative Innovation
Pic-to-Painting Presets
PaintShop Pro’s new Pic-to-Painting presets apply Deep Neural Networks to analyze your photo and turn it into a work of art that replicates the style of iconic artists. Choose from a number of creative presets to achieve the look of a famous painting. Download Pic-to-Painting free from the Welcome tab.
360° Camera Support
Edit photographs taken with a 360° degree camera. Straighten a 360° photo with rotation or make it appear levelled. Remove and automatically replace the tripod in the image with PaintShop Pro's Magic Fill, or produce an interesting ‘planet-like’ effect.
More Creative Content
At the very core of PaintShop Pro is creativity. Which is why we’ve added new brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes. Download the new patterns from the Welcome Book, and find the rest of the new content already built into PaintShop Pro.
PROFESSIONAL PHOTO EDITING
Enhance photos with a complete set of professional image editing tools for photo adjustment and composition. Enjoy the powerful, layer-based editing capabilities you’ll find in Photoshop—only more affordable and subscription free.
RAW Editing
Enjoy complete control over your RAW images with PaintShop Pro's Camera RAW Lab, including before and after views, and a large preview option.
HDR Tools
Combine multiple exposures of the same scene to create a single, stunning, HDR photo with intense visual contrast.
Lens Correction
Apply Lens Correction tools automatically to correct the distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations that are commonly introduced by most camera lenses.
Scripts
Speed up common and repetitive tasks by scripting almost any action with the full-featured scripting engine and scripting guide.
Improve Any Photo with Quick Fixes
Makeover Tools
Eliminate red-eye, blemishes and unwanted lines, or smooth wrinkles, whiten teeth and even out skin tones.
Batch Processing
Increase productivity by applying adjustments to many photos at once.
One-Click Photo Fixes
If you’re not sure what adjustments to make, use the One Step Photo Fix and see if you like the results, or try the Smart Photo Fix to fine-tune the suggested settings for a perfect photo.
Crop, Straighten and Correct Perspective
Crop photos for stronger compositions using Grid, Diagonal, Golden Ratio and Golden Spiral composition guides. Fix a crooked image or a learning object within an image.
Add Effects for Attention-Grabbing Photos
Instant Effects
Choose from a variety of artistic, film, black & white, and landscape preset effects. Or try PaintShop Pro 2019’s new Pic-to-Painting presets to watch Artificial Intelligence turn your photo into a work of art.
Retro and Vintage Tools
Recreate vintage photographic styles, from the 40’s to the 80’s with PaintShop Pro’s Time Machine. Or try the Retro Lab to apply fun retro effects.
Graduated Filter Tool
Quickly and easily add unique color gradient effects to your images to simulate a graduated filter effect.
Depth of Field
Play with depth of field in your photos or apply bokeh effects to keep parts of the image in focus and the rest blurred.
Retouch and Restore Your Favorite Photos
Selection Tools
Enjoy several handy selection tools that make it fast and easy to adjust or retouch one area of a photo, or to copy a portion of a photo and paste it onto another image.
Remove Flaws and Objects
Use content-aware editing tools, like Magic Move and Magic Fill, to automatically fill the empty area when you move or remove an object from your image, so it matches the surrounding background. Try the Object Remover or Clone Brush to get rid of imperfections.
Photo Restoration
Use the Fade Correction tool to restore the color and contrast of faded photos and the Scratch Remover to repair unsightly cracks in tattered photos to make them look new again.
Remove Red Eye
Use the Red Eye tool to quickly and easily replace the red color in your model’s pupil with a dark gray color, restoring a natural look.
CREATIVE GRAPHIC DESIGN
Whether you’re creating collages, designing banners and graphics, or adding creative touches to photo projects, PaintShop Pro is packed with creative tools for creative people. Find everything you need to produce a variety of impactful graphic design projects.
Drawing and Painting Tools
Paint even more possibilities with new built-in brushes, or import Adobe Photoshop brushes to bring your digital designs to life. Draw with vector illustration tools, and use new color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes to take your designs to the next level.
Layers and Masks
Layers and masks are essential for advanced image editing and graphic design. Use non-destructive layers to create composites with ease. Create masks to hide or show parts of a layer, fade between layers, and to create special effects with precision.
Text Tools
Add text to images to create interesting projects, like a meme or a picture quote. Adjust fonts, size, style, alignment, leading and kerning, with a complete set of typography tools.
Gradients
Drop gradients directly onto an image, shape, or canvas, then drag and drop colors to create a transitioning color effect.
EASY WAYS TO START AND LEARN
PaintShop Pro includes all the tools you need to get started quickly and increase your skills with every project.
Feel Right at Home
Open the Welcome tab to find tutorial videos, keyboard shortcuts, recent files, a gallery of user artwork, and more to get you started. It’s updated dynamically so you'll never run out of learning and creative content to discover.
Take a Guided Tour
Get to know PaintShop Pro even better with a step-by-step virtual tour that will help you confidently find your way around the interface and have you mastering new features in record time.
Enjoy Learning on All Levels
Choose from a library of helpful video tutorials in the Welcome tab, or visit PaintShop Pro's learning page for even more assistance. Get extra tips and tricks from PaintShop Pro's award-winning Learning Center.
SHARE YOUR PHOTOS
Connect by sharing your photos with loved ones or the world using PaintShop Pro’s built-in social media features.
Find People
Use face recognition technology to identify and tag individuals for easier photo management.
Find Locations
Map your photos to real-world locations and share them online.
Integrate with Social Media
Share your photos and designs instantly with a quick upload to your Facebook, Flickr, SmugMug and Google+ accounts.