By Shutterbug Staff

September 28, 2007 — Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE announced the launch of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is for aspiring photographers and business communicators who want to transform their digital pictures into professional-looking photos. Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 provides users with a wide selection of photo editing features ranging from automatic tools for quick fixes to precision controls for fine-tuning. With Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, viewing, sorting and processing downloaded photos is faster than ever thanks to the all new Express Lab. Beginners benefit from a wide range of automatic, one-click adjustments while advanced users can take full advantage of the program's manual adjustments providing more direct control over each photo. With speed improvements and the built-in Learning Center, new users can produce results quickly, learning as they go.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 offers a number of new features and significant enhancements to bring the power and creative possibilities of digital photography to more users. New features in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 include the all-new Express Lab mode that enables users to view and edit dozens of photos in the time it used to take to edit just a few. When using Express Lab, users can rapidly crop, rotate, apply color adjustments and perform other common tasks on large numbers of images without having to open each image individually. Express Lab includes full support for all file formats including camera raw.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 features a new graphite workspace that puts the focus on the photo. The new interface also provides a neutral background for unbiased color adjustments.

With the new HDR Photo Merge, users can easily create photos that capture the full details found in the shadows and the highlights of a high-contrast scene. Users can combine two or more photos taken at different exposures and use the Clarify feature to automatically "dodge and burn” bringing out the contrast.

With the new Thinify tool, users can make anyone look thinner with just one click. The new Eye Drop tool takes the red out of bloodshot eyes. The popular Suntan brush and Blemish Fixer have also been enhanced so users of any skill level can quickly and easily touch up images like the pros. With the new Layer Styles, photographers and business users can add drop shadows, embossing, outer and inner glows, bevels and reflections to text, photos and creative projects.

For all the features in Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, please visit www.corel.com/paintshopprophoto.