Software update: Paint Shop Pro 9 trial

Anonymous: 31180 writes that Jasc Software has the first trial version of Paint Shop Pro 9 released† This release follows up on the previously released beta versions and comes with a number of new photo, art and graphics tools. Paint Shop Pro allows you to edit photos, graphics and prints. There are various tools available for this such as a red eye remover, image tracer and image resizer. Edited images can be saved or converted in various formats. Jasc currently only has the web installer in the offer, anything resembling a fully downloadable shareware version cannot be found. Below are the new features of Paint Shop Pro 9:

photos

• Digital Camera Noise Removal Filter scans photos and removes image noise while intelligently preserving image textures.
• Chromatic Aberration Removal Filter eliminates the purple fringe that often appears in digital photographs.
• Fill Flash Filter corrects the underexposure of shadows. The Backlighting Filter compensates for overexposed areas.
• Raw camera images. Paint Shop Pro 9 includes integrated support for Raw camera images (digital negatives) from several popular camera models.
• Set custom white balance, exposure and sharpening levels when converting Raw camera images for use in Paint Shop Pro.

art

• Art Media tools include Oil Brush, Acrylic Brush, Chalk, Pastel, Crayon, Colored Pencil and Marker.
• Palette Knife and Smear Tool realistically mix paints on the canvas. The Art Eraser provides an easy way to remove paint from the canvas.
• A new Mixer Palette provides an off-canvas area to experiment and mix custom colors together.
• Art Media Layers allow users to adjust the canvas texture, lighting and paint wetness properties of their artwork.
• Use Image Tracing options as an easy way to paint a photograph or other image using realistic brush strokes.

graphics

• Rectangle and Ellipse Tools simplify buttons, banners and other custom graphics. The Rectangle tool gives full control over rounded corners for custom buttons.
• Symmetric Shape Tool allows users to create polygons and stars then edit them into custom artistic shapes. Users can edit shape properties at any time, not just at creation.
• The Text Tool features vertical text layout options and new anti-alias rendering choices that render cleaner text at smaller font sizes.
• A simplified Pen Tool makes it easier than ever to add lines and curves to graphics.
• The new Displacement Map Filter creates custom two- or three-dimensional surface effects for graphics based on an underlying image.
• Users can add spin, twist and zoom blur effects to images with the Radial Blur Filter. Productivity
• New History Palette tracks each command applied to an image, making it easy to manage complex editing projects.
• Powerful Selective Undo functionality allows users to easily undo any individual editing step in a document’s history. Save selected history steps to the clipboard or as scripts for use with another image.
• Resource Categorization: Users can now organize their Paint Shop Pro resource files by projects or subjects in flexible resource categories.
• New Text Options in print layout make it easier than ever to add custom captions and titles to photo layouts.
• A new Information Window in the browser allows users to view image details, creator information, and EXIF ​​data for any selected image. Sort images in the Browser using EXIF ​​data to find specific photos.