
New
PaintShop Pro 2019
Photo editing software
- New Creative presets powered by Artificial Intelligence
- New 360° photo editing
- Enhanced Performance, stability and features
- Enhanced User experience and ease of use
New
Experience a professional photo editor designed by the passionate photo enthusiasts who use it. PaintShop® Pro 2019 is your affordable, user-centric alternative to Photoshop—with every new feature inspired by user ideas. Make compelling compositions and impactful design projects using a complete set of professional image editing tools. This latest version delivers a faster, more robust PaintShop Pro, that’s easier to use and more creative than ever.
Retouch and enhance your images with a comprehensive set of progressive photo editing tools. Enjoy powerful, layer-based editing.
Design with text, brushes and textures, plus drawing and painting tools to create attention-grabbing designs.
Crop, straighten, resize, enhance and retouch, or use one-click adjustments to instantly correct.
Experiment with hundreds of creative filters and fun effects to make your photos pop.
Eliminate imperfections and unwanted photo elements, from a small scratch to an entire background.
Enjoy support for 64-bit versions of third-party plugins, such as Topaz Labs, Nik Collection by DXO, Adobe and more.
Enjoy over 50 performance improvements based on direct feedback from users. Experience faster cropping and One-Step Photo Fix. Use a stylus for more control, thanks to support for Windows Ink and the latest graphics tablets, and enhanced 4K support lets you enjoy ultra high definition resolution. Work more efficiently and achieve better results with these significant performance enhancements.
See for yourself how a simplified PaintShop Pro provides the best possible user experience. Automatically migrate plugins and content from previous versions for a seamless upgrade, and customize your UI text size for better visibility. Save time and effort with the new Crop toolbar, which brings PaintShop Pro’s most used and loved image enhancement tools into your crop workflow. It’s all about you!
PaintShop Pro’s new Pic-to-Painting presets apply Deep Neural Networks to analyze your photo and convert it into a work of art. With support for 360° photo editing, you can easily edit, level and straighten a photograph taken with a 360° camera. Plus, be more creative with new brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes. It’s time to experience the next generation of photo editing.
PaintShop Pro is packed with so many powerful photo editing features that it's hard to list them all!
Enjoy a full-featured photo and design toolset to help you create just about anything with ease.
PaintShop Pro is packed with so many powerful photo editing features that it's hard to list them all!
Enjoy a full-featured photo and design toolset to help you create just about anything with ease.
Enjoy an exclusive bonus collection of creative software that will not only enrich your photo editing toolset, but also expand your expertise into the realm of animation and digital art. PaintShop Pro® 2019 Ultimate offers photo animation, photo-painting, intelligent image correction, RAW photo editing, creative content, and so much more.
Bringing your photos to life is ridiculously easy and addictively fun. And sharing your masterpieces on social media is a breeze. Quickly transform any image into a mesmerizing animation in a matter of minutes with PhotoMirage Express.
Only available in Ultimate
Let Painter Essentials 6 quickly auto-paint your photos to turn them into paintings. Or learn to paint, draw and sketch from scratch in a welcoming environment, using pencils, pens and particles.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Use award-winning, one-click image correction technology to effortlessly adjust your photos. Perfectly Clear 3.5 SE leverages intelligent image analysis to automatically find and fix camera flaws and limitations.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Make easy photo corrections and enhancements, and save time with batch processing tools to simultaneously apply adjustments to one or thousands of images. Corel AfterShot 3 delivers professional-grade RAW photo editing and gives you ultimate control over very large photo collections.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
With creativity at its core, PaintShop Pro 2019 offers impressive new creative content and applies Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to deliver innovative new artistic presets. Thanks to community input, we’ve made over 50 performance improvements for faster photo editing, quicker cropping and better support, and we’ve focused on simplifying PaintShop Pro for the best possible user experience. Your ideas and feedback, combined with our development expertise, make PaintShop Pro 2019 the best version yet.
In response to user feedback, we’ve radically transformed the Crop tool to take advantage of your computer's GPU for a more responsive experience. Rotating and positioning PaintShop Pro's Crop tool is now 5x faster.
We listen to what you have to say. And we’ve made over 50 improvements to PaintShop Pro’s performance, stability and features, based on requests from you—our loyal users. From adding text to cropping, erasing, painting and working with brushes, our many revamps will make your editing experience smoother than ever.
One-Step Photo Fix just got faster. Now you can automatically apply several corrections to your photo at once, in much less time!
Enjoy ultra high definition resolution with 4K. PaintShop Pro 2019's support for high DPI monitors means user interface text will appear larger on screen, making it easier to see and work with.
Combine PaintShop Pro with a graphics tablet for more expressive results. PaintShop Pro 2019 supports all of the latest mainstream and WinTab-aware graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink, so whether you’re drawing, painting, applying adjustments or effects, you can use a pen for more control.
Enjoy a more subtle Autosave. Work with more momentum and less interruptions, thanks to enhancements to the Autosave process. Now you have more control over the frequency of autosaving, and by default, you'll experience less disruptions.
PaintShop Pro 2019 easily migrates your content from previous versions, for a seamless upgrade experience. Plugins, scripts, brush tips, color palettes, gradients, patterns, textures, and effects that you've previously installed can be brought forward by going to File>Import>Content from Previous Versions.
We’ve extended the power of our Crop tool—a favorite tool amongst photo editors —to include PaintShop Pro’s most used enhancement features, including Instant Effects, One-Step Photo Fix, and Depth of Field. Bringing these popular tools to the front of your crop workflow saves you time and effort in achieving a perfect photo.
Increase PaintShop Pro 2019's text size for better visibility. Choose Small or Large text from the User Interface menu, to tailor your UI to you.
PaintShop Pro’s new Pic-to-Painting presets apply Deep Neural Networks to analyze your photo and turn it into a work of art that replicates the style of iconic artists. Choose from a number of creative presets to achieve the look of a famous painting. Download Pic-to-Painting free from the Welcome tab.
Edit photographs taken with a 360° degree camera. Straighten a 360° photo with rotation or make it appear levelled. Remove and automatically replace the tripod in the image with PaintShop Pro's Magic Fill, or produce an interesting ‘planet-like’ effect.
At the very core of PaintShop Pro is creativity. Which is why we’ve added new brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes. Download the new patterns from the Welcome Book, and find the rest of the new content already built into PaintShop Pro.
Download Content GuideEnhance photos with a complete set of professional image editing tools for photo adjustment and composition. Enjoy the powerful, layer-based editing capabilities you’ll find in Photoshop—only more affordable and subscription free.
Choose from a variety of artistic, film, black & white, and landscape preset effects. Or try PaintShop Pro 2019’s new Pic-to-Painting presets to watch Artificial Intelligence turn your photo into a work of art.
Recreate vintage photographic styles, from the 40’s to the 80’s with PaintShop Pro’s Time Machine. Or try the Retro Lab to apply fun retro effects.
Quickly and easily add unique color gradient effects to your images to simulate a graduated filter effect.
Play with depth of field in your photos or apply bokeh effects to keep parts of the image in focus and the rest blurred.
Enjoy several handy selection tools that make it fast and easy to adjust or retouch one area of a photo, or to copy a portion of a photo and paste it onto another image.
Use content-aware editing tools, like Magic Move and Magic Fill, to automatically fill the empty area when you move or remove an object from your image, so it matches the surrounding background. Try the Object Remover or Clone Brush to get rid of imperfections.
Use the Fade Correction tool to restore the color and contrast of faded photos and the Scratch Remover to repair unsightly cracks in tattered photos to make them look new again.
Use the Red Eye tool to quickly and easily replace the red color in your model’s pupil with a dark gray color, restoring a natural look.
Whether you’re creating collages, designing banners and graphics, or adding creative touches to photo projects, PaintShop Pro is packed with creative tools for creative people. Find everything you need to produce a variety of impactful graphic design projects.
PaintShop Pro includes all the tools you need to get started quickly and increase your skills with every project.
Transform any image into a captivating animation in just three simple steps.
Only available in Ultimate
This easy-to-learn painting program will transform your photos into amazing oil, pastel or impressionist works of art.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Quickly enhance images with award-winning, one-click image correction technology that does all the complex work for you!
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Work more efficiently and achieve better results. Thanks to significant performance improvements, PaintShop Pro 2019 is quicker and more robust than ever.
We’re committed to focusing on removing the obstacles that stand in the way of your success. That’s why we've simplified PaintShop Pro 2019—for the best possible user experience.
Let emerging technologies enhance your creativity in new, unprecedented ways. PaintShop Pro 2019 is packed with innovative creative features and new creative content.
Features |
PaintShop Pro 2019 Ultimate |
PaintShop Pro 2019 |
PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate |
PaintShop Pro 2018 |
PaintShop Pro X9 Ultimate |
NEW PhotoMirage™ Express — Effortlessly transform any image into a mesmerizing animation in a matter of minutes. | |||||
NEW Corel® Painter Essentials™ 6 — Learn to paint, draw and sketch from scratch with this easy to use painting program. | Painter Essentials 5 |
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NEW Perfectly Clear 3.5 SE by Athentech Imaging — Apply intelligent corrections to your photos with a single click. | Perfectly Clear 3 SE |
Perfectly |
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Corel® AfterShot™ 3 — Quickly adjust and manage even large photo collections, and enhance RAW files. | |||||
Corel Creative Collection — Includes dozens of brushes, textures and royalty-free backgrounds. | |||||
NEW Pic-to-Painting presets — 13 artistic presets apply Deep Neural Networks to analyze your photo and give it the look of a famous painting style. | |||||
NEW 360° camera support — Straighten, rotate and flatten a 360° photo, and automatically remove the tripod from the image. Or create an interesting 'planet-like' effect. | |||||
Improved! Crop toolbar — Enhance photos right from your Crop toolbar with easy access to Instant Effects, One-Step Photo Fix, and Depth of Field. | |||||
NEW Seamless content and plugin migration — Easily migrate your content from previous versions, for a smooth upgrade experience. | |||||
Improved! Latest stylus and graphics tablet support — Pair PaintShop Pro with the latest mainstream and WinTab-aware graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink. | |||||
Improved! Over 50 fixes — Enjoy more than 50 improvements to PaintShop Pro’s performance, stability and features, based on requests from loyal users. | |||||
Improved! Autosave — Gain more control over the frequency of autosaving, and by default, you'll experience less disruptions. | |||||
Improved! Faster features — Experience 5x faster cropping, and a quicker Clone tool and One Step Photo Fix. | Speed enhancements to Boot time, Depth of Field and Text Wrapping |
Speed enhancements to Boot time, Depth of Field and Text Wrapping |
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NEW Customizable UI text size — Increase PaintShop Pro 2019's text size for better visibility. Choose Small or Large text from the User Interface menu. | Customize size of icons, scroll bars, nodes and lines |
Customize size of icons, scroll bars, nodes and lines |
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NEW More Color Palettes — Choose from 10 new predefined harmonious color schemes, to save you time and effort in selecting and applying colors. | Color Palettes feature introduced |
Color Palettes feature introduced |
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NEW More brushes — Discover 10 new brush tips for more creative options. | New brushes added |
New brushes added |
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NEW More Gradients, Patterns and Picture Tubes — Design with 30 new gradients, patterns and picture tubes - expanding your creative potential. | New gradients and patterns added |
New gradients and patterns added |
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Essentials and Complete workspaces — Choose from two workspaces to work in, tailored to suit your workflow or skill level. | |||||
Quick Customize — Pick and choose the tools you want on your Tools toolbar, and search for any tool using a handy alphabetical search. | |||||
Welcome tab — Discover learning materials, free and premium plugins, applications, scripts, brushes and more in a new, friendly tabbed interface. | |||||
Project templates — Build personalized greetings, brochures and more, faster than ever with project templates. | |||||
4K monitor support — An enhanced interface is compatible with Ultra High DPI displays. | Larger UI text |
Larger UI text |
Larger icons |
Larger icons |
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Screenshot tools— Capture and edit screenshots all in one place. | |||||
Magic Move and Magic Fill — Use content-aware editing tools to automatically fill the empty area when you move or remove an object from your image, so it matches the surrounding background. | |||||
Lens correction — Easily correct distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations. | |||||
Text and Shape Cutting tools — Instantly create photo objects by using a text or shape to clip underlying photos or imagery. | |||||
Text wrapping — Instantly wrap text inside a vector shape or selection for new creative options. | |||||
Quick selection tools — Drag a selection window over the desired spot with Auto Selection. Or try the Smart Selection brush to quickly make a selection by brushing over the target area. | |||||
Plugin support — Enjoy support for 64-bit versions of third-party plugins and Adobe Photoshop plugins. | |||||
Places — Map your photos to real-world locations. | |||||
HDR photo merge — Blend multiple exposures to create striking High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos. | |||||
Retro Lab™ — Apply old-school effects inspired by early lo-fi cameras. | |||||
Instant Effects — Transform photos by applying dozens of unique creative effects inspired by vintage photographs, film styles and more. | |||||
Sharing options — Upload your photos to Facebook, Flickr, SmugMug and Google+. | Includes SmugMug |
Includes SmugMug |
Includes SmugMug from update 1 |
Includes SmugMug from update 1 |
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Scripts — Speed up repetitive tasks using the scripting engine and guide for batch edits. | |||||
Selective Focus — Mimic the effect of expensive tilt-shift lenses and turn a scene into a miniature world. | |||||
Fill light and clarity — Brighten shadowy areas of a photo while preserving the rest of the image. | |||||
RAW Lab — Make non-destructive adjustments to your RAW images. Easily restore detail in overly exposed areas, correct white balance and more. | |||||
Batch processing — Adjust one photo, then apply to multiple photos. | |||||
Photo management tools — Catalog, search, rate and tag your photos so you can quickly find your favorites. | |||||
Object Extractor — Quickly and precisely isolate and remove from an image. | |||||
Makeover tools — Remove blemishes, whiten teeth, brighten eyes, paint on a tan, and thinify your subjects. | |||||
Digital Camera Noise Removal & Chromatic Aberration Removal filters | |||||
Cloning and Scratch Remover tools | |||||
Vector drawing tools |
Why pay year after year for something you can easily own? Get affordable, subscription-free photo editing software with Photoshop-like results. Buy PaintShop Pro once and it’s yours in perpetuity at a lower cost. Get the professional power you want, plus the high-quality tools you need to take your photos and designs to the next level.
Features |
PaintShop® Pro 2019 Ultimate |
Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018‡ |
Pricing model | Perpetual license (software is licensed forever, for one price) | Monthly subscription |
Suggested retail price | $99.99 USD | $119.88 USD (1 year subscription total) |
Price for subsequent years | $0 USD | $119.88 USD |
Total after 3 years | $99.99 USD | $359.65 USD |
Volume licensing price | 1 to 4 - $71.99 per unit 5 to 30 - $63.99 per unit |
$407.88 per unit (1 year subscription total) |
Free trial | Yes (30 days) | Yes (15 days) |
Features |
PaintShop® Pro 2019 |
Adobe® Photoshop® CC 2018‡ |
Pricing model | Perpetual license (software is licensed forever, for one price) | Monthly subscription |
Suggested retail price | $79.99 USD | $119.88 USD (1 year subscription total) |
Price for subsequent years | $0 USD | $119.88 USD |
Total after 3 years | $79.99 USD | $359.65 USD |
Volume licensing price | 1 to 4 - $71.99 per unit 5 to 30 - $63.99 per unit |
$407.88 per unit (1 year subscription total) |
Free trial | Yes (30 days) | Yes (15 days) |
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Features |
PaintShop Pro 2019 |
Adobe Photoshop CC 2018‡ |
Professional-quality bitmap and photo editing | ||
Exclusive bonus collection of premium photo software | ||
Vector graphics | ||
Photo adjustment tools (White Balance, Brightness/ Contrast, Fill Light/Clarity, Vibrancy and more) | ||
Digital painting and drawing tools | ||
Portraiture tools | ||
Levels and Curves | ||
Text tools | ||
Image presets powered by Artificial Intelligence | ||
Instant effects and filters | ||
One-click photo fixes | ||
Screenshot tools | ||
RAW file support | ||
Layers and Masks | ||
High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools | (no dedicated HDR module; more steps than PaintShop Pro) |
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Photo management tools (indexing, metadata, and rating controls) | (separate app – Adobe Bridge) |
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Enhance photos from within Crop tool | ||
Content-aware tools (move and fill) | ||
Project Templates | ||
PSD Compatibility | (native Photoshop file format) |
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UI customization | ||
Web tools | ||
Geo-tagging support | ||
360° camera support | ||
Support for automation | (Scripts) |
(Actions) |
Supports Photoshop plugins | (to version Adobe Plugin SDK ver 10) |
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Dual monitor mode | ||
Stylus and graphics tablet support | ||
In-app Guided Tour |
Operating Systems | Windows | Windows, Mac, Online |
Supported file formats | Import formatsAI, BMP, CAL, CALS, CGM, CLP, CMX*, CT, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, DRW*, EMF, EPS, GIF, HDP, HGL*, HPG*, IFF, IMG, J2C, J2K, JIF, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPS, JPX, MAC, MPO, MRW, MSP, PBM, PCD*, PCT, PCX, PDF, PGL*, PGM, PIC, PICT, PNG, PNS, PPM, PS, PSD, PSP (PSPimage files), RAS, RAW, RIF, RLE, SCT, SVG, SVGZ, TGA, TIF, UFO, WBM, WBMP, WDP, WEBP, WMF, WPG** Export formatsBMP, CAL, CALS, CLP, CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, AI, PS, GIF, HDP, WDP, IFF, IMG, JP2, J2C, J2K, JPC, JPX, JPG, JIF, JPE, JPEG, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PPM, PNG, PSD, PSP (PSPIMAGE FILES), RAS, RAW, RIF, RIFF, RLE, SCT, CT, JPS, PNS, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, WBM, WEBP, WMF |
Import/Export formatsPhotoshop PSD, Large Document Format PSB, BMP, Cineon, CompuServe GIF, Photoshop DCS 1.0, Photoshop DCS 2.0, DICOM, Photoshop EPS, IFF format, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PCX, Photoshop PDF, Pixar, PNG, Portable Bit Map, Photoshop Raw, Scitex CT, Targa, TIFF, Wireless Bitmap, Photoshop 2.0 (Mac only), PICT (read only), PICT Resource (Mac only, can open only), Radiance 3D-related formats3D Studio (import only), DAE (Collada), Flash 3D* (export only), JPS* (JPEG Stereo), KMZ (Google Earth 4), MPO* (Multi-Picture format), U3D, Wavefront|OBJ |
RAW file support | Support for over 650 camera models with the following extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, ERF, K25, KDC, MEF, MOS, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F | Yes, hundreds of cameras supported via Adobe Camera RAW |
Brush formats supported | Yes. PaintShop Pro Brush (.pspbrush), Adobe Photoshop Brush (.abr), Jasc Brush (.jbr) | Photoshop brushes only |
Audio & video formats supported | None by default (handled separately via Corel Photo Video Bundle) | Audio import formats: AAC*, AIFF*, M2A*, M4A*, MP2*, MP3* Video import formats†: 264*, 3GP, 3GPP*, AVC*, AVI, F4V*, FLV*, MOV (QuickTime), MPE*, MPEG 1, MPEG 4, MPEG-2 if a decoder is installed (eg. with an Adobe video suite), MTS*, MXF*, R3D*, TS*, VOB* Video export formats: DPX*, MOV (QuickTime), MP4 |
* Supported on 32-bit installs only
** WPG (WordPerfect Vector only) is not supported on 64 bit. WordPerfect Bitmap is supported on 64 bit
‡Adobe® and Photoshop® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Pricing current as of May 2018 and is subject to change. Pricing obtained from the Adobe Photoshop business licensing page: https://creative.adobe.com/plans
Subscription includes Adobe® Lightroom® CC and Adobe® Lightroom® Classic CC.
RAW file support for over 450 camera models, including the following file extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, K25, KDC, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F (see all RAW camera support below)
* Supported on 32-bit installs only
** WPG (WordPerfect Vector only) is not supported on 64-bit. WordPerfect Bitmap is supported on 64-bit.
Learn more about RAW image editing.