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Corel(R) Painter(TM) Wins 2007 Hot One Award from Professional Photographer Magazine.


OTTAWA -- Corel Corporation (company) Corel Corporation - A software publisher best known for the CorelDraw application. Founded in June 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Corporation was originally a systems integration company.  (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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) today announced that Corel[R] Painter[TM] IX.5 has been recognized with a 2007 Hot One Award from Professional Photographer magazine. The Professional Photographer 2007 Hot One Awards honor the photography industry's best new products for professional application. Corel Painter Painter is the name of a raster graphics software package used to create natural-looking artistic images using a computer. Originally available on the Macintosh, it is now also available for Windows.  has once again won the painting software award category.

"The Painter team is absolutely thrilled to receive this prestigious Hot One Award. This signals Corel Painter's continued leadership in the painting software category and our commitment to delivering best-in-class tools to our customers. No other application replicates the look and feel of traditional artists' media like Corel Painter!" said Rick Champagne, Product Manager for Corel Painter.

Complete with the new Photo-Painting Palettes that make it easier than ever to transform photographs into paintings, Corel Painter IX.5 is an ideal tool for photographers who wish to generate additional revenue by creating hand-crafted paintings from their photographs. Adding to the industry-leading power of Corel Painter IX, the Corel Painter IX.5 update also provides support for Rosetta[R] on the Mac[R], along with a host of new tools and features to make customers more productive. Corel Painter IX.5 is available now as a free download to registered Corel Painter IX customers and can be purchased directly from www.corel.com.

"The 2007 Hot One Award winners represent an interesting combination of advanced technology and superior usability. Looking over the winning products, we noticed a concerted effort by manufacturers to create high-tech, high-quality items that have the working habits of contemporary professional photographers in mind," explained Jeff Kent Jeffrey Franklin Kent (born March 7, 1968 in Bellflower, California) is a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and a former MVP winner. Early career , Hot One Editor, Professional Photographer magazine. "Our team of judges chose this year's crop of winners based on quality, usability, innovation and, in many cases, value for price. These judges are all working professional photographers, and their endorsement of these products indicates that the items work not only on the conceptual level, but on the practical level as well. The 2007 Hot One Award winners can be proud to call themselves the best the business has to offer."

This latest honor adds to the extensive list of Corel Painter IX and Corel Painter IX.5 industry awards that include two PC World World Class Awards and Editors' Choice awards from PC Magazine, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion.  [R] and MacAddict.

For more information about the Hot One Awards, please refer to the February issue of Professional Photographer or visit the magazine's Web site at www.ppmag.com.

A free update for registered Corel Painter IX customers, Corel Painter IX.5 is available at the US suggested retail price of $429 for the full version, $229 for the upgrade version and $99 for the education edition. To download a free, full-featured trial version of Corel Painter IX.5, please visit www.corel.com/painter.

About Corel Corporation

Corel[R] is a leading global packaged software See software package.  company with over 40 million users. The Company provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics and digital imaging software and enjoys a favorable market position among consumers and small businesses. The Company's award-winning product portfolio features popular, globally recognized brands, including CorelDRAW[R] Graphics Suite, Corel[R] Paint Shop Pro[R], Corel[R] Snapfire[TM], Corel[R] Painter[TM], Corel DESIGNER A full-featured Windows drawing program from Corel that has been widely used by technical illustrators. Originally developed by Micrografx, which was acquired by Corel in 2001, Corel DESIGNER is a very sophisticated vector graphics program providing many features of a CAD program, [R], Corel[R] WordPerfect[R] Office, WinZip[R] and iGrafx[R]. With hundreds of industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design and value, Corel's products have built a loyal following of customers and partners around the globe. Corel's products are sold in over 75 countries through an international network of resellers and retailers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Corel's global websites.

Corel Corporation announced the completion of its acquisition of InterVideo, Inc., a leading provider of digital media authoring and playback software with a focus on high-definition video This article is about high-definition video technology. For television systems, see High-definition television. For the tape format, see HDV. For compression and prerecorded media, see High-definition pre-recorded media and compression.  and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
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 technologies, on December 12, 2006. In 2006, InterVideo[R] acquired Ulead[R], a leading developer of video imaging and DVD authoring software for desktop, server, mobile and Internet platforms.

[c] 2007 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, CorelDRAW, Paint Shop Pro, Snapfire, Painter, Corel DESIGNER, WordPerfect, WinZip, iGrafx, InterVideo, Ulead and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. All other product, font and company names and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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