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 auto-enhance, 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, plus snap-to grids and guides, make for quick and accurate positioning of graphic elements. And there are more than 20 new artistic and lighting special effects with which to experiment.

This special 10th-anniversary edition of Paint Shop Pro is filled with more than $100 worth of free software, filters, and images, including Jasc Media Center Plus 3.1, Flaming Pear Virtual Painter, and Alien Skin Eye Candy.

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 3.04 is included, with which you can create GIF animations from layer-based Paint Shop Pro images. Productivity and ease-of-use enhancements, along with a new getting-started guide, help to make this one of the best-value power packages for image editing available. --Ken McMahon

Amazon.com Product Description
Paint Shop Pro is the cost-effective graphics editing alternative that is both powerful and easy to use and offers far more flexibility than template-based applications. It allows you to easily retouch, repair, and edit photos, offers automatic photo-enhancement features, and lets you create and optimize Web graphics with drawing and text tools. You'll also be able to design cool animations with Animation Shop 3. The application saves you time with its productivity tools, including grids, guides, alignment, and grouping.

This special 10th-anniversary edition of Paint Shop Pro is filled with more than $100 worth of free software, filters, and images. You will get:

• Jasc Media Center Plus 3.1: The easy way to file and find your photos, clip art, scanned images, and Web graphics on your hard drive, CD-ROMs, or Zip disks.
• Jasc Animation Shop 3.04: Lets you add impact to your Web site and multimedia presentations by easily animating your graphics, buttons, banners, and more.
• Virtual Painter: Allows you to create realistic-looking paintings and custom artwork in seconds. Experiment with two free and fully functional filters--collage and pastel--that make it easy to give your digital photos artistic flair.
• Flaming Pear: Lets you infuse your graphics with two texture-generating effects--lacquer and swerve. Hundreds of presets with graphic previews will have you making eye-catching text, Web buttons, and more.
• Muska & Lipman Tutorials: Teach you how to create astounding graphics--from photo enhancement to professional Web graphics--with step-by-step instructions in full color.
• Alien Skin Eye Candy: Will add life to your graphics with 21 special effects.
• Other bonus resources include 30 new picture tubes, picture frames, and fun shapes, which are great ways to add pizzazz to your projects.