Al een tijdje is de zevende editie van Paint Shop Pro is de betafase. Nu is er een nieuwe betaversie uit, de vijfde alweer. De releasenotes kon ik niet vinden, maar het lijkt me dat er alleen wat buggies gefixt zijn. Toch hier nog even een gedeelte van het lijstje vernieuwingen in PSP 7.0 (die dus ook al in de vorige beta zaten):
- Automatic Contrast Enhancement, Automatic Color Balance, Automatic Saturation Enhancement and Fade Correction commands provide quick, automated, and easy-to-use tools for correcting common problems with digital photos.
- The Edge-Preserving Smooth, Texture-Preserving Smooth, Average and expanded Median commands allow removal of various types of image noise.
- Preview in Web Browser will load and preview an open image in up to three user-defined Web browsers. Before the preview is displayed, you can select to display the image in Bitmap, JPEG, PNG or GIF formats. Selecting JPEG, PNG or GIF will run the appropriate Paint Shop Pro optimizer, then display the image in the selected browser.
- Several great new special effects have been added to the program, including: artistic effects such as Aged Newspaper, Brush Strokes, Colored Foil, Contours, Enamel, Sepia, and Topography; Sunburst and Lights illumination effects; Polished Stone, Sandstone, Soft Plastic, Straw-wall, Fine Leather, Rough Leather, and Fur texture effects; and Page Curl.
- Vector information can now be read, retained and saved. The program will read supported vector information from CDR, CMX, DRW, DXF, EMF, GEM, HPGL, WMF, and WPG format files. Vector information created in Paint Shop Pro can be preserved by saving the output file in WMF or EMF format.
- A Repeat command is now available to repeat the last command used.