Corel Releases Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 Standalone Version.OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 1997--(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :COS.) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :COSFF) 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. , award-winning developer and marketer of graphics, Internet and personal productivity software, today announced the release of Corel PHOTO-PAINT Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor created by Corel. The current version is Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 (13). It is not sold by itself, but instead included with CorelDRAW (CorelDRAW Graphics Suite). Its main uses are image manipulation and creation of web graphics. (TM) 8. Currently available in the popular CorelDRAW(TM) 8 graphics suite, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 delivers state-of-the-art image correction, photo retouching and painting. Scheduled to ship by mid-December, the Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 standalone is available for a suggested retail price of $495 US for the full version and $149 US for the competitive upgrade. Prices subject to change without notice. Dealers may sell for less. "Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 is one of the best photo-editing applications on the market today," said Dr. Michael Cowpland Michael Cowpland (born April 23, 1943) is a Canadian entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder and one-time president, chairman and CEO of Corel, a Canadian software company. Cowpland was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England and obtained a BSc. , president and chief executive officer of Corel Corporation. "With the addition of customization tools and enhanced Internet support, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 is the only photo-editing program a professional artist needs." "Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 jumpstarts the imagination by providing tools to bridge the gap between the artist's imagination and the screen," said David Huss, Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 beta tester, author of Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8: The Official Guide and a Grand Prize winner in Corel's 1997 World Design Contest. "With powerful new features such as Low-res 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. , on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. preview for filters, Transparency Adjustment tools and object Clip Masks, everything on the screen now happens in 'real time'. Everything I could do in version 7 I can now do faster and easier in version 8 giving me more time to invest in the creative process." Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 features a number of new and improved features to help make the creative process effortless. -- New Low-res Image editing lets users make edits on a lower resolution "proxy" image and then render the changes from the proxy to the original high resolution image -- Productivity Enhancements like Non-destructive object Clip Masks, new Lenses and interactive transparency adjustment tools give users flexible control and the creative freedom to make multiple modifications to the appearance of an object without permanently modifying the image. -- New Effects Preview lets users preview special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , duotone Du´o`tone n. 1. (Photoengraving) Any picture printed in two shades of the same color, as duotypes and duographs are usually printed. conversion and color adjustments directly on-screen. Once effects have been applied, they can be blended with the original image using the Fade Last Command feature. -- New Docker Windows allow traditional roll-up menus to be docked anywhere in the application window. When multiple windows are docked, they will be neatly grouped with tabbed pages for easy navigation. -- New Tools like Dodge/Burn let users perform non-linear brightness correction to specific areas on an image. Orbital and Symmetry painting modes let users create unique patterns with any brush. Language Versions Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 is scheduled to be available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, , Dutch and Japanese. System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 requires Windows(R) 95 or Windows NT(R) 4.0, a Pentium(R) 90 processor (Pentium 133 recommended), 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM strongly recommended), 80 MB of hard drive space to install Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8 Help, filters and fonts, a CD-ROM drive, SVGA monitor and a mouse or tablet. Corel Corporation Incorporated in 1985, Corel Corporation is recognized internationally as an award-winning developer and marketer of productivity applications, graphics and Internet software for the corporate and retail markets. Corel's products, which run on most operating platforms, are consistently rated among the strongest in the industry. The company's product line, including CorelDRAW(TM), Corel(R) WordPerfect(R) Suite, Corel VENTURA(TM) and Corel(R) WebMaster Suite, ships in over 17 languages through a network of more than 160 distributors in 70 countries worldwide. Corel is traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) Canada's largest stock exchange, trading approximately 1,200 company stocks and 33 options. (symbol: COS) and the NASDAQ National Market System (symbol: COSFF). For more information visit Corel's Web site at www.corel.com . -0- Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT and Corel VENTURA are trademarks or registered trademarks of Corel Corporation or Corel Corporation Limited. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Corel Press Contact US Jessica Gould, 613/728-0826 ext 5405 E-mail: jessicag@corel.com or Corel Press Contact Canada Carrie Bendzsa, 613/728-0826 ext 1524 E-mail: carriebe@corel.com |
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