Corel's Paint Shop'TM' Pro'R' Has Best Quarter Ever.OTTAWA -- Award-winning Software Closes Banner Year with Record-setting Quarter; New Distribution Agreements and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Partners Point to Strong Performance in 2005 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. today announced that Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) recently celebrated its strongest quarter ever, delivering the best single quarter sales performance in the product line's history. Sales of the award-winning photo editing See photo editor. software jumped 30% over the product's last record breaking quarter, which occurred in 2000. With awards from some of the industry's most influential sources and additional investments from Corel, the Paint Shop family is set to expand its footprint in the digital photography market, through new distribution agreements, expanded OEM partnerships, and a commitment to ongoing customer research and interaction. Corel will present its newly expanded portfolio of digital photography and imaging software, including Paint Shop Pro, at PMA PMA (papillary-marginal-attached), n a system of epidemiologic scoring of periodontal disease devised by Schour and Massler in which the symbols denote the areas involved in gingival inflammation. PMA Progressive muscular atrophy in Orlando from February 20-23, 2005 (Booth # 2463). With the addition of the Paint Shop family, Corel now offers users a full lineup A criminal investigation technique in which the police arrange a number of individuals in a row before a witness to a crime and ask the witness to identify which, if any, of the individuals committed the crime. of digital photography and imaging software solutions, opening up new creative possibilities for customers of all skill levels, whether they're a first time digital camera user, a dedicated hobbyist, or an industry professional. Setting a New Standard Launched in September 2004, Paint Shop Pro 9 continues to set the standard for powerful, efficient, and affordable professional photo editing software. Providing digital photographers, graphics hobbyists, and business professionals with award-winning tools for professional photo editing, Paint Shop Pro 9 enables users to persuasively communicate their ideas and express their individual creativity. New in Version 9 are professional-strength photo editing filters that reduce the time spent producing the results photographers demand. These tools include the Chromatic Aberration chromatic aberration: see aberration, in optics. Fringes of color at the edges of objects in a photograph due to the inability of the camera lens to deal with all wavelengths of light equally. Removal Filter, Noise Removal Filter, and the Fill Flash and Backlighting back·light n. A type of spotlight, used in photography, that illuminates a subject from behind. tr.v. back·light·ed or back·lit , back·light·ing, back·lights Filters. In addition, with the inclusion of technology from Bibble Labs (www.bibblelabs.com), Paint Shop Pro 9 supports raw camera images from digital camera manufacturers including Canon, Fuji, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, and Pentax, allowing users to set custom white balance, exposure, and sharpening For image sharpening, see . Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a sharp edge on a tool or implement. The term has a wide application but can be expressed as the creation of two intersecting planes which produce an edge that is sharp enough to cut through the target levels when converting raw camera images. Providing users with unmatched levels of control and flexibility, Paint Shop Pro 9 has attracted considerable recognition, winning industry praise for its power and versatility. Recent awards include: - PC Magazine - Best of the Year - December 28, 2004 - Presentations Magazine - Standing Ovation Award - December 2004 - SmallBusinessComputing.com Excellence in Technology Award - January 2005 "Our goal with Paint Shop Pro 9 is to provide users with professional image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. software that is also affordable and very easy to use," said Michael Greenhalgh, Product Line Manager for the Paint Shop family. "We're very pleased with the response so far, and with Corel's continued investments and strong commitment to customer driven product development, I am confident that we'll attract many more new customers and partners to the Paint Shop fold." Among the new partners embracing the Paint Shop product line is D&H Distributing, one of the largest wholesale distributors of computer, photographic, and consumer electronics products in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . For the first time, D&H resellers and dealers will have access to the award-winning Paint Shop lineup, including Paint Shop(TM) Photo Album(TM), Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) Studio and, the family's flagship, Paint Shop Pro. Recently named Best Distributor at the 2004 RAM Awards, D&H is noted for its multi-market expertise and its ability to provide a one-stop resource for IT and consumer electronics solutions. "The Paint Shop family is highly regarded in the digital photography industry for its professional photo editing capabilities, ease-of-use, and competitive price point," said Rob Eby, Director of Purchasing at D&H Distributing. "We are pleased to add this award-winning lineup to our portfolio of Corel solutions since we're confident it will help our customers build even more business in the rapidly expanding and very lucrative digital photography market." Corel at PMA Corel will demonstrate its entire portfolio of digital photography and imaging software at PMA in Orlando from February 20-23, 2005 (Booth # 2463). For more information on PMA, please visit www.pma2005.pmai.org. Product Pricing and Availability Paint Shop Pro 9, Paint Shop Pro Studio, and Paint Shop Photo Album 5 are available through selected resellers and retailers. MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) is $129 US for Paint Shop Pro, $69 US for Paint Shop Pro Studio, and $49 US for Paint Shop Photo Album 5. Dealers may sell for less. To download a free, full-featured trial version of the software, please visit www.jasc.com. For more information on Corel Corporation, please visit www.corel.com. About Corel Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 75 countries improve their productivity. The Company is renowned for its powerful software portfolio that combines innovative photo editing and graphics creation, vector-illustration and technical-graphics applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Corel's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. include the CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect(R) Office Suite, the 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. Natural-Media(R) painting and illustration software and the Paint Shop(TM) Family of digital photography and image-editing software. Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003, and since that time, has re-established growth for its flagship product lines and achieved multiple consecutive quarters of corporate profitability. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.corel.com. About Bibble Labs Located in Austin, Texas, Bibble Labs was founded in 2000 to develop technologies and software for high quality processing of raw files from a wide variety of digital cameras. Bibble Labs standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. products are in use by thousands of photographers all over the world to quickly and accurately process their raw photos. It's technologies and expertise are increasingly becoming the standard other companies turn to when they wish to embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. raw image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished technology in their products. For more information, visit our website at http://www.bibblelabs.com. Licensing inquiries may be addressed to bibble@bibblelabs.com. (C) 2005 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, Paint Shop, and the Corel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. 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