With powerful photo-editing and design tools, plus over $200 in valuable creative extras, Corel® PaintShop® Pro X5 Ultimate provides everything you need to create stunning photos and dynamic designs. Explore your creativity with ultimate extras, including award-winning NIK® Color Efex Pro™ 3.0 photographic filters, REALLUSION® FaceFilter Studio 2 for amazing portrait retouching, and a creative collection of royalty-free backgrounds, brushes and textures. Easily organize your photos and tag people and places using the new Find People and Map View features. When you're finished, use new social media integration to instantly share your creations on Facebook, Flickr and Google+.

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Photo Editing
Organize, edit and enhance your photos with powerful photo-editing tools:

NEW! Instant Effects palette
Add creative effects to your photos in just seconds. Choose from a variety of preset effects which are organized into style categories such as Artistic, Film Styles, Black & White and Landscape. Thumbnails make it easy to select the effect you want or choose from your own custom made presets. You can also apply multiple effects to a single image to instantly create a unique photographic look.

NEW! Retro Lab
Add old school color and contrast to your photos to achieve a distinctive look inspired by early lo-fi cameras. Plus, take advantage of a variety of control settings to create and tweak presets for use in other creative projects.

NEW! Graduated Filter effect
Apply semi-transparent color gradients to your photos to simulate the effect of using different camera lens filters. Enhanced gradient tools allow you to make quick and easy adjustments. A wide range of easy-to-use gradient controls also allows for more creativity and experimentation.

RAW Lab
RAW is a powerful photo format which contains more information and detail than the traditional JPEG format of most digital cameras. PaintShop® Pro X5 features the Camera RAW Lab, a unique tool system which supports hundreds of camera models, allows for simple batch processing to convert RAW image files, and includes the ability to apply non-destructive adjustments to your RAW photos

Makeover tools
Make sure the people in your photos look their best with Makeover tools that are fun and easy to use. Remove blemishes, smooth wrinkles, whiten bloodshot eyes, paint on tans and even help your subjects drop those extra few pounds the camera adds on. Advanced Warp tools allow you to distort faces to add a bizarre and humorous twist to your portraits, give your subjects a sculpted model makeover, and add new shape and perspective to your images.

Bonus creative filters
Maximize your photo opportunities with NIK® Color Efex Pro™ 3.0, which includes over 250 effects and styles, and 30+ emulated film types in 52 easy-to-use filters. You get traditional and stylized filters that offer virtually endless possibilities to enhance and transform images quickly and easily.

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Graphic Design
Create impressive graphic designs with dynamic design tools:

Enhanced! Text tool
Get the look you want with the enhanced Text tool which offers more intuitive text selection and editing, as well as improved interaction with the Pick tool.

Vector Editing tools
Draw and edit vector objects, and combine artistic elements with your photos to create digital designs that are as unique as your art style.

NEW! Run Multiple Scripts dialog box
Use built-in scripts to automate tasks such as resizing, adding effects and adjustments, allowing you to work faster, achieve more consistent results and experiment with different tools. Choose from dozens of easy-to-use pre-made scripts, create your own, or connect with other PaintShop® Pro users to share and exchange scripts. You can now also select multiple scripts as part of a single batch processing job, allowing you to get the perfect look while saving you time and effort.

Enhanced! Paint Brush
Create and paint new styles and designs with the enhanced Paint Brush tool. Choose from a variety of built-in brushes or import Adobe® Photoshop® brushes, letting you enjoy even more ways to bring your digital artwork and creative designs to life.

Bonus creative collection
Do more with your photos with dozens of new brushes, textures and over 100 royalty-free backgrounds.

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Makeover
Turn every photo into the perfect picture with easy-to-use makeover tools:

Makeover tools
Make sure the people in your photos look their best with Makeover tools that are fun and easy to use. Remove blemishes, smooth wrinkles, whiten bloodshot eyes, paint on tans and even help your subjects drop those extra few pounds the camera adds on. Advanced Warp tools allow you to distort faces to add a bizarre and humorous twist to your portraits, give your subjects a sculpted model makeover, and add new shape and perspective to your images.

Bonus Portrait Enhancement tools
Revitalize the beauty in your photos with REALLUSION® FaceFilter Studio 2.0 portrait enhancement tools.

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Web Graphics
Create, edit and optimize your web graphics with a variety of versatile web tools:

Web Tools
Use a variety of versatile web tools to save and optimize images that are perfect for online use. Work with image mapping to link HTML with your graphics, and use Slicing and Rollovers to create designs that work seamlessly with web pages.

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Photo Restoration & Repair
Bring your old family photos back to life with powerful photo restoration tools:

Scratch Remover Tool
The Scratch Remover tool is also perfect for repairing unsightly cracks and making tattered and faded photos look like new again.

Sophisticated cloning tools
Easily remove people and objects from your photos and seamlessly fill in the missing space with content from another area of your image.

Fade Correction
Make those old photos look new again by restoring the color and contrast of faded photos in one simple step.

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Scrapbooking
Create unique designs for your photo projects with advanced editing and design tools:

Vector Editing tools
Draw and edit vector objects, and combine artistic elements with your photos to create digital designs that are as unique as your art style.

Enhanced! Paint Brush
Create and paint new styles and designs with the enhanced Paint Brush tool. Choose from a variety of built-in brushes or import brushes from Adobe® Photoshop®, letting you enjoy even more ways to bring your digital artwork and creative designs to life.

Enhanced! Layer Styles
Get the perfect look you want using the enhanced Layer Styles feature. Now you can access styles - such as Drop Shadow, Glow and Reflections - directly from the Layers palette, while new input boxes allow for added precision and control over all of your creative design projects.

Enhanced! Text tool
Get the look you want with the enhanced Text tool which offers more intuitive text selection and editing, as well as improved interaction with the Pick tool.