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Serif PhotoPlus Specifications

Serif PhotoPlus Product Details

Features:

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.

Raw Studio NEW

Open professional-quality unprocessed Raw files from your digital camera in the impressive new Raw Studio, the perfect place to adjust white balance, set the black point, fix chromatic abberation and more. Raw quality is maintained in the studio, and you can continue to to edit in high-color mode in the main PhotoPlus interface.

Print Studio NEW

Print individual images at different sizes, multiple images in various layouts, and contact sheets with image names all from one revamped and unified Print system.

QuickFix Studio IMPROVED

An improved QuickFix Studio is more powerful, faster, and easier to use! Enjoy new image fixes including noise reduction, black & white film, HSL and exposure adjustment, plus new histogram and navigator tabs.

Enhanced User Interface IMPROVED

The PhotoPlus interface is given a fresh look in this release with new icons and buttons throughout, new and enhanced How To guides and tutorials, plus all the image Studios have improved usability and controls.

High-Color Photo Editing NEW

Edit photos in all their original glory, with up to 281 trillion colors. Major improvements behind-the-scenes in PhotoPlus X3 mean you can open and edit 48-bit images for richer, more realistic depth of color and smoother special effects.

Photo Information IMPROVED

Read and maintain EXIF, XMP and IPTC information for any of your images. This handy metadata is a universal way to record details about the photo like which camera it was taken with, exposure and speed settings, copywrite information and more.

Microsoft HD Photo Support NEW

Open and save Microsoft® HD Photo files, the exciting new image format sporting modern compression. HD Photos are around half the size and higher quality than JPG files.

Performance Enhanced IMPROVED

Work faster than ever before in PhotoPlus X3 with even more of the program’s powerful feature set optimized for multi-core processors. Memory usage is better managed which means faster performance and rapid results.

High Dynamic Range Imaging NEW

Create breath-taking and dramatic photos using the exciting HDR Merge feature. Simply use this built-in tool with two or more shots of the same scene that have different exposures to make something simply magical.

Black and White Studio NEW

Convert your photos to greyscale, apply split tone effects for a unique image, restore color to selected parts of your picture and more in this impressive new artistic studio, found in the How To tab.

New Filters NEW

Use the filter gallery or smart filter layers to add one or more of over 50 editable effects to really make photos stand out. Choose from new and impressive Film Grain, Shear, Kaleidescope, Page Curl, and Plasma effects.

Other Features:

Unique High-Quality Image Resizing.
Picture Brushes.
3D Lighting and Surface Effects.
3D Painting using Depth Maps.
Instant Effects Gallery.
Instant Artist Painting Effects.
Extended Import Capabilities.
Improved Photo Correction.
Enhanced Mesh Warp.
Enhanced Selection Modes. 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.
Combinatorial Shapes.
Quickly align shapes or text between multiple linked layers.
Masks now work on shape and text layers, too! Plus they now move independently of their layers and store their own colors.
One master dialog allows editing of five fill types, now combining both color and transparency.
Freehand and Bezier Curve and Shape Drawing.
Use the full range of line- and shape-drawing tools to create editable outlines via the new Paths tab.
Browse Image Files and Folders.
Import and export animated GIFs, apply special effects, even let PhotoPlus create entire animations for you automatically.
Add formatted color text to an image, reposition and scale it, integrate it with your design. Text layers keep the contents separate so you can go back and alter the words or formatting at any time!
Special Effects, Image Correction Filters.
Editable Adjustment Layers.
Professional Output Options.

System Requirements:

Minimum:

Pentium PC with CD-ROM drive and mouse (or other Windows-compatible pointing device)
Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista operating system
256MB RAM
576MB (recommended full install) free hard disk space
SVGA display (800x600 resolution, 16-bit colour or higher)
Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large or complex documents.

Recommended:

Dual-processor PC technology
Pentium PC with CD-ROM drive and mouse (or other Windows-compatible pointing device)
Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP, or Vista operating system
256MB RAM
576MB (recommended full install) free hard disk space
SVGA display (1024x768 resolution, 16-bit colour or higher)
Additional disk resources and memory are required when editing large or complex documents.

Optional: