But two other features, Fill Flash and Backlighting, fail to provide the same degree of control and quality that Photoshop's counterpart, the Shadow/Highlight tool, offers. And the new feature that smoothes digital photo noise does a very good job. The Chromatic Aberration command provides simple but highly effective controls for eliminating the colored fringing that can occur along sharply contrasting edges in images. Paint Shop Pro 9 has also added some new tools for correcting photos, including the ability to open Camera Raw–formatted images. But Paint Shop Pro's artistic toolkit is nonetheless a very impressive addition. (A graphics tablet is a near necessity to appreciate the power of these features.) These tools don't quite achieve the real media verisimilitude of Painter, which is dedicated to simulating real-world painting on the desktop. You can then apply your color to the textured canvas using tools such as Chalk, Crayon, and Oil Brush. New documents can be created with inherent background textures such as "coarse paper" and "fine canvas." Like a real-world artist's palette, the Mixer palette lets you swirl and combine colors until you find the perfect shade. The new Art Media tools effectively replicate the experience of painting and drawing on canvas or paper. The inherent downside is that Paint Shop Pro's History palette can be much slower than Photoshop's, especially when you have to wait for complex filters to reapply themselves.
But Jasc introduces a novel twist: Unlike Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro lets you undo a command without undoing subsequent commands. You can click on command names in the palette to undo and redo actions, watching the image update as you go. The most noticeable change to the interface is the addition of a Photoshop-style History palette, which records a list of the commands you've performed on an open image. But Paint Shop Pro 9 reaches beyond mere image editing with "painting" features that resemble Corel Painter's. In a couple cases, Jasc is playing catch up with Adobe Photoshop CS.
But Jasc has packed a number of impressive new tools and capabilities into this professional-level image editor.
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