• 200% Faster Text Rendering: The Text tool is complex and has undergone seriously impressive speed and responsiveness improvements and when rendering, inputting and editing text. You’ll notice over 2000% faster inserting high word count text exerts in any style project.

• Up to 30% Faster Text Editing: Enjoy amazing speed improvements to various aspects of Text editing including formatting and attributes, alignment and deleting text. Now quick edits, such as changing the font size, type, kerning, leading, or tracking, will happen immediately.

• Faster Text Wrap: The popular Text Wrap feature got an overhaul too, making your graphic design projects easier, faster and more fun to create. Whether you’re working with Text on a path or within a shape, you’ll notice the power of the speed improvements.

• Improvements based on direct user feedback: The most commonly used tools in PaintShop Pro were thoroughly analyzed and improved to provide you with the most seamless experience yet. Influenced by direct user feedback, improvements to PaintShop Pro’s performance, stability and features are guaranteed to impress.

• Faster Pic-to-Painting: Pic-to-Painting just got 25% faster, allowing you to transform your photos into art automatically, and in much less time!

• NEW Copy and Paste Layer Styles: With one simple click, you can copy Layer Styles from one layer to another, allowing you to work with momentum and avoid creating presets for single projects. For more information, see To copy and paste layer styles.

• Improved Depth of Field precision: With a more detailed grid system, you’ll experience an increase in precision while using the Depth of Field feature on your Crop toolbar.

• Latest stylus and graphics tablet support: Combine PaintShop Pro with a graphics tablet for more expressive results. PaintShop Pro supports all of the latest mainstream and WinTab-aware graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink, so whether you’re drawing, painting, applying adjustments or effects, you can use a pen for more control.

• NEW Touch-Ready Photography Workspace: Equipped with all the essential tools you need to take your photos from good to perfect, the new Photography Workspace provides a simple, yet sleek and intuitive, interface built with touch-friendly and ultra high definition resolution 4K devices in mind to help you work more efficiently.

• NEW SmartClone: The versatile SmartClone tool provides content-aware retouching capabilities and some impressive design possibilities. You can select your source material from the same image or from another image, allowing you to merge elements from multiple images. The results can produce interesting and unexpected designs. For more information, see SmartClone retouching and design.

• NEW Refine Brush: Precise selections just became so much easier to create. The Refine Brush lets you fine-tune the edges of a selection to pick up details like hair or fur that are notoriously difficult to select. For more information, see Fine-tuning a selection with the Refine Brush.

• NEW Creative Content: At the very core of PaintShop Pro is creativity. Which is why we’ve added new brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes. Download the new patterns from the Welcome Book, and find the rest of the new content already built into PaintShop Pro.

• GRFX Studio: Bridge the gap between technology and artistry with access to thousands of the most popular photo effects.

• Parallels Toolbox: Parallels Toolbox is an all-in-one solution with over 30 tools. Problem solve with one click to easily save space on your hard drive, create high-quality content, and quickly optimize your computer for a presentation.

• PhotoMirage Express: Effortlessly transform any image into a mesmerizing animation in a matter of minutes with PhotoMirage Express.

• Painter Essentials 6: This easy-to-learn painting program will transform your photos into amazing oil, pastel or impressionist works of art. Or learn to paint, draw and sketch from scratch in a welcoming environment, using pencils, pens, and particles.

• Corel AfterShot 3: Quickly learn professional-grade RAW photo editing and take control of very large photo collections with Corel AfterShot 3. Make easy corrections and enhancements, and save time with batch processing tools that let you apply adjustments to one or thousands of photos at once.

• Corel Creative Collection: Expand your creative capabilities with dozens of brushes, textures, and over 100 royalty-free backgrounds.