What’s new in Corel PaintShop Pro 2022

Corel PaintShop Pro 2022 is designed with performance, ease-of-use, and creativity at the forefront. Highly effective features and tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) make creating something truly original, achievable.

NEW! Frame Tool

The all-new Frame Tool makes placing raster objects into shapes quick, easy and intuitive. Draw frames to use as handy placeholders or draw frames over a selected object, image or text for a polished result. For more information, see Placing images in shapes with the Frame Tool.

New! AI Background Replacement

AI Background Replacement offers a fun new way to swap out the background in portraits of people. Simply choose a portrait-style photo, and let the AI do the work of selecting the background. You can then refine or customize the selection for the effect you want, and swap in one of the preset backgrounds or use one or your own images for the background—from your favorite beach scene, to cityscapes, landscapes, portrait-studio backgrounds, and more. For more information, see Changing portrait backgrounds with AI Background Replacement.

New! AI Portrait Mode

Eliminate distractions and put the focus on the people in your photos. AI Portrait Mode offers an easy way to apply a professional-looking depth of field effect to portrait-style photos. AI automatically identifies the subject of the photo, leaving the perfect buffer for the blur, bokeh, and focus settings you choose. For more information, see Applying a depth of field effect with AI Portrait Mode.

Enhanced! Instant Effects—AI-Powered

Instant Effects offer even more ways to enhance your photos with Color Match and Smooth Image controls for AI-Powered effects. Smooth Image lets you control the level of detail when you apply an AI-Powered effect, preserving clear edges while blending areas of similar color. Color Match lets you control the balance between the style color and the original image colors.

Enhanced! Usability

The Welcome tab has been enhanced with you in mind, offering a helpful new Workspace tab with built-in tutorials and learning content to help you master the product with ease. An improved design and new thumbnail previews for recent files promotes intuitive navigation and seamless experience.

NEW! HEIC/HEIF file Support

Enjoy new file support for HEIC and HEIF file format. Upload your images captured with an Apple iPhone or iPad without converting the file format. For more information, see How to open HEIC files from an iPhone or other device.

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 tab, and find the rest of the new content already built into PaintShop Pro.

Exclusive Ultimate Bonus Software Collection

If you choose PaintShop Pro 2022 Ultimate, it includes the following bonus collection:

• Sea-to-Sky™ workspace: Experience an all-new photo editing workspace designed to take your drone and underwater photography to new heights.

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

• Painter® Essentials™ 8: 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. Enhance your photo projects with playful designs, flowers, sunsets, and more, along with an array of lively brushstrokes.

• Highlight Reel: Creating quick videos showing off the highlights of your latest adventure just got a whole lot easier with new smart movie creator—Highlight Reel. Simply import your photos/videos and Highlight Reel will analyze and extract the best parts and compile them together for you, following the beat of the music. Creating videos to share your everyday moments just got easier.

• MultiCam Capture™ Lite: Engage your viewers, grow your audience, and capture video with MultiCam Capture Lite. Easily create how-to videos, gaming videos, record product demos, and more, with one easy-to-use recording software.