Version 7 adds a raft of new features for retouching digital images, creating business graphics, and producing interactive Web graphics. Paint Shop Pro's vector shapes--introduced in version 6--have been enhanced and now support gradients, textures, and patterns on stroke and fill commands. New image editing features include autoenhance, which adjusts color balance, brightness, saturation, and hue to improve picture quality with a single click. New filters for noise, scratch, and dust removal, together with automatic red-eye removal, make picture restoration easier than ever.

You don't need a separate vector application to create business graphics--Paint Shop Pro's enhanced vector-drawing tools provide everything you need. New align, distribute, arrange, group, and resize commands, and snap to grids and guides make for quick and accurate positioning of graphic elements. And there are over 20 new artistic and lighting special effects with which to experiment.

Webmasters will appreciate Paint Shop Pro's new Web features, which include image slicing, image maps, JavaScript rollovers, and file optimization with browser preview. As usual, Jasc's excellent Animation Shop 3 is included, with which you can create GIF animations from layer-based Paint Shop Pro images. Productivity and ease-of-use enhancements, and a new getting-started guide, all help to make this one of the best-value power packages for image editing. --Ken McMahon

Amazon.com Product Description
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 is the complete graphics and photo editor for businesses. This product lets you edit photos, create Web graphics, draw, paint, and animate--all in one program. It is intuitive enough to be used by beginners and powerful enough to satisfy the needs of the most demanding advanced user. Paint Shop Pro offers advanced functionality at a low cost and without the extensive time requirements often associated with learning high-end professional products.

Design animations with Animation Shop 3--included free. Design unique Web graphics using the many creative drawing and text capabilities. Add impact by enhancing your photos with professional artistic effects and adjustment layers. Save time and money by printing multiple photos on one sheet of paper. Easily view and manage all your images using the crisp thumbnail previews.

Experiment freely, using unlimited undo and redo commands. Retouch, repair, and edit digital photos and other images with version 7's professional-level, high-quality photo-enhancement feature, including automatic color balance adjustment; one-click red-eye removal; instant removal of scratches, noises, and dust; adjustable histogram; plus much more. Expand beyond creating Web graphics with version 7's built-in Web tools, including image slicing, image mapping, image rollover effects, an improved JPEG and GIF optimizer, and previewing of Web graphics in up to three different Web browsers.