Using full screen preview the zoom is brilliant and any area of the image can be blown up to pixel size very easily. When you first run the package you get a screen displaying the various work areas (this will reappear each start up) until you tick the box to stop it. Next items that have been extended or improved, RAW support, more than twenty tools now have 16bit support, Full Screen Review, Redesigned (more intelligent) Workspace, Sharing to Facebook and Flickr are internal, and overall the system starts and responds faster. The new features in Corel X4 are HDR Tools, Fill Light and Clarity Filter, Vignette (black and white from colour), Photo Blend, Selective Focus areas, Shot Info Panel and for those who use them Dual Monitor support. As an incentive to register you get the Corel KTP collection, incentives I do not mind but forced registration as used by some companies I certainly do. Not content with that Corel also provide a free Download of their WinZip Pro package. While some may go for the basic version, the Ultimate is only around £15-20 more and what it gives would cost far more than that. All these figures are minimum probably no problem for Vista or Windows 7 but maybe for XP users. You will need Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP, at least 1.5GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and at least a 1024x768 16bit display. Much easier to use than the normal PDF file that most use. The box itself is weighty and yes joy of joys there is a manual a paper back book of 196 pages with full colour illustrations, well laid out and a decent index. Disc two is a range of bonus features (something Corel have always given even when the product was on floppy discs) and this took another 3 minutes and a further 310MB of hard disc space, so 691MB and 15 minutes to do the install. Paintshop Pro X4 comes on two discs, the first will install various updated Microsoft bits like Direct X etc and then the program this took 12 minutes on a reasonably fast Windows 7 PC and took 381MB of hard disc.
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