Corel's Paint Shop Pro 9 Named PC Magazine's 'Best of the Year' : Flagship Digital Image Editing Software Takes Top Honors.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. today announced that PC Magazine will name its Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) 9 "Best of the Year" in the Image Editing-Serious Hobbyist category in its upcoming December 28 issue. Paint Shop Pro 9 was lauded among products that, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. PC Magazine editors, "... wowed us, simply by being the best." According to the editors, "Paint Shop Pro 9 goes beyond simple 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. , with impressive new tools and capabilities," and calls the product "excellent for digital photo editing See photo editor. ." Paint Shop Pro 9 is the flagship of the Jasc family of Paint Shop products, recently acquired by Corel to create the industry's broadest offering of high-quality digital photography, graphics and productivity software for value-conscious customers. This latest version of the award-winning photo and graphics editor advances the standard for affordable, professional photo editing through advanced tools for avid and professional digital photographers, graphics hobbyists, and business professionals. The software integrates digital camera noise removal, a 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, fill flash, Raw image support, and other high-end functionality often sold individually for hundreds of dollars. The honor from PC Magazine caps a highly positive year for Corel. Previously, the Paint Shop family has been lauded with dozens of positive reviews and multiple awards, including Presentation Magazine's Standing Ovation Award, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Editors' Choice Award, PC World 'Best Buy', and PC Photo Editors' Choice Award. "Having a trusted industry resource, like PC Magazine, give Paint Shop Pro top honors for digital image editing provides a level of confidence that consumers can trust when considering their software purchase," said Brett Denly, executive vice president of global marketing. "And, it validates that as a company, our product strategy is right on track to keep us positioned as innovation leaders in the digital photography market." Pricing and Availability Paint Shop Pro 9 is available at www.jasc.com , www.corel.com and at selected retailers worldwide. 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 USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. .For a free trial of Paint Shop Pro 9, please visitwww.jasc.com/products/. About PC Magazine PC Magazine (www.pcmag.com), the most important technology publication in the world, delivers authoritative, labs-based comparative reviews of computing and Internet products to more than 6.6 million highly engaged technology buyers. PC Magazine defines technology for e-business and is the only magazine with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. technology landscape. To meet its readers' needs for buying information that is as current as it is comprehensive, PC Magazine publishes 22 times a year in print and continuously on the Web. About Corel Corporation 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 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 achieved record levels of profitability and growth across all product lines. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information or to download a trial version of the software, please visit www.jasc.com/newpr2. (C) 2004 Corel Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. |
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