Organise and Manage

• View and organise all your photos and videos in one place
• Use thumbnails and previews to select photos fast
• Catalogue, search, rate and tag photos to quickly find your favourites
• Capture adjustments from one photo, then easily apply the changes to multiple others

Edit and Retouch

• Get full RAW support, including the latest RAW camera formats
• Use easy batch processing to edit multiple photos at once – without complicated scripts
• Edit fast with new, advanced tools like Smart Carver, Vibrancy and Object Extractor
• Fly through common editing tasks in the Express Lab

Simplify your digital workflow

Enhanced! Photo Organizer

Customise your digital workflow with new photo management capabilities in PaintShop Photo Pro X3’s Photo Organizer. Use thumbnails and image previews to quickly select your photos.

New! Easy Batch Processing

Make adjustments to one photo, then easily apply the same changes to multiple other photos. Edit one, apply to many, right from the Organizer.

Enhanced! Express Lab

The new interface makes photo editing faster than ever. Preview photos and videos or make changes in this speed-editing mode. Quickly adjust contrast, apply local tone mapping, remove noise and sharpen images. You can also adjust levels, clarity and white balance, batch-edit multiple photos and more.

Auto-preserve Originals

Automatically store a copy of your original photo when saving an edited version.

Camera RAW Support

Make RAW adjustments during the loading process and work with even more RAW camera formats – faster than ever before. By working with these “digital negatives”, you can achieve the results you want with greater artistic control and flexibility, without overwriting the original RAW files.

Do more with advanced photo-editing tools

New! Smart Carver

Seamlessly remove objects from an image with professional quality. Smart Carver also lets you expand or contract objects without distortion.

New! Vibrancy

Boost colour in the least saturated areas of a photo without affecting the rest of the image.

New! Object Extractor

The integrated Object Extractor isolates an object—even challenging cases such as flyaway hair and fuzzy pet fur – so it can be copied to a new background or a new background can be pasted behind it.

Depth of Field Effect

Depth of Field allows you to create effects that you can’t do with a camera lens alone. Draw attention to a specific area of an image by focusing on one region and applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image. Create an effect in seconds that usually requires precise manual lens aperture adjustments.

New! On-Image Text Editing

With the updated text engine, it’s easier, faster and more natural to apply text to an image. Adjust font, colour, placement, position, size and wrapping of the text in context of the image. Reselect the text on the image and continue typing, or apply text on a path.

New! HD Video Slideshows

As an increasing number of DSLRs capture HD video, PaintShop Photo Pro now offers tools that let you combine photo and video projects. View, split and trim standard or high-definition video clips. Then create HD slideshows and movies of your photos and videos, all with the same tool.

New! Windows® 7 Compatibility

PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is fully compatible with Windows 7, as well as Windows® XP and Windows Vista®. Take advantage of new Windows 7 speed and performance to experience a whole new level of creativity.

HDR Photo Merge

Quickly merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures, or with different brightness and contrast settings, to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows.

Black-and-White Photos

Create dynamic black-and-white, sepia and antique-style images by simulating the look of taking photos using a coloured lens filter.

Layers and Adjustment Layers

Nondestructively adjust the colour or tone of your images without actually modifying the pixels on each layer. You can also add multiple adjustment layers to an image to test various colour corrections or see how several corrections look when they’re combined.

Adjust Levels and Curves

Precisely adjust tone, colour balance and exposure with exceptional control. The Curves dialog box includes a histogram, so you can easily and intuitively fine-tune your work. Three automatic settings let less-experienced users optimise the contrast and colour levels in images with just a few clicks.

Advanced Sharpen Tools

Turn fuzzy photos into crisp images, without compressing or degrading the quality of the image.

Fix Lens Distortions

Easily remove fish-eye, barrel and other lens distortions.

Visible Watermarks

Protect and take credit for your photos by easily adding a visible watermark to label your work.

Minimum configuration

• Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® or Windows® XP with latest service packs installed (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
• 1.5GHz processor
• 1GB RAM
• 3GB of free hard drive space
• Minimum display resolution: 1024x768 (24-bit colour)
• Windows-compatible DVD-ROM drive for installation
• Internet connection required for online features