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- Paint Shop Pro
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- Version 4.12
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- V E N D O R I N F O R M A T I O N
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- This file provides information for Shareware Distributors, Disk
- Vendors and BBS SYSOPs who wish to distribute Paint Shop Pro.
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- Part 1: Program Information:
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- Program Name, Category, Keywords:
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- Name - Paint Shop Pro
- Category - Windows (Graphics)
- Keywords - WINDOWS
- GRAPHICS
- PAINTING
- IMAGE EDITOR
- PHOTO RETOUCHING
- THUMBNAILS
- IMAGE VIEWER
- SCREEN CAPTURE
- SCANNING
- PRINTING
- FILE FORMAT CONVERSION
- BMP, CDR, CGM, CLP, CMX, CUT, DIB, DRW, DXF, EPS, GEM, GIF,
- HPGL, IFF, IMG, JIF, JPG, LBM, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCX, PIC,
- PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAW, RAS, RLE, TIFF, TGA, WMF,
- WPG, PICT, PCT
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- Description:
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- Welcome to the world of Paint Shop Pro. Paint Shop Pro is a full
- featured graphics manipulation and paint program. It contains
- features demanded by professional graphic artists, with an
- understandable and easy to use interface for the beginner.
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- Features include:
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- Painting
- Paint Shop Pro gives you the power to paint your way! You can
- choose one of the default settings (paintbrush, pen, pencil,
- marker, crayon, pastel, airbrush or charcoal) or adjust any of
- the brush attributes to create your own effects.
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- Photo Retouching
- Now you have all the power you need to enhance your existing
- images. Use the clone brush for quick and easy duplication of
- image areas, even between separate images. The retouching brush
- provides you with flexible control over the various attributes.
- Use the defaults (lighten, darken, soften, sharpen or emboss) or
- change the attributes to work the way that is easiest for you.
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- Image Enhancement and Editing
- Paint Shop Pro includes full featured masking support (alpha
- channel support is available for TIFF, TGA, and PNG file formats).
- Image Arithmetic allows you to combine two images together. Paint
- Shop Pro allows you to perform flip, mirror, rotate (by one
- degree increments) and crop operations. The program includes
- 21 image filters and 11 deformations, plus the ability to create
- your own filters, and supports third party plug-in filters such as
- Kai's Power Tools or Alien Skin's Black Box.
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- Image Browser
- The thumbnail browser allows you to visually search directories
- for images. You can select images to be loaded into Paint Shop Pro
- for editing.
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- World Wide Web Graphics Support
- Creating a graphic for the World Wide Web could not be any easier
- than with Paint Shop Pro. Simply create your graphic and save it
- as one of the popular formats for World Wide Web graphics. Paint
- Shop Pro supports the Transparent GIF, Transparent PNG, and
- Progressive JPEG formats highly sought after for web page graphics.
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- Color Enhancement
- Paint Shop Pro provides full support for adjusting brightness,
- contrast, highlight, shadow, midtone, gamma correction and color
- reduction, as well as hue, saturation, luminance and RGB levels.
- Palette editing and direct palette mapping allow global changes to
- multiple images. Furthermore, histogram functions enable the user
- to equalize and stretch the image values. Results can be viewed
- on the enhanced histogram window that displays red, green, blue
- and luminance values.
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- Image Viewing and Printing
- View multiple images at once with Paint Shop ProÆs extensive
- viewing capabilities. If desired, you can edit an image at
- the pixel level while viewing it at another zoom level. You can
- also use the full screen mode, complete with zoom, pan, and all
- image editing features. Paint Shop Pro supports any Windows
- compatible printer.
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- Built-in Special Effects
- Are you ever nearing completion of creating a graphic and only
- wish you could put a drop shadow behind it to give it a raised
- effect? No need to worry, Paint Shop Pro includes built-in
- special effects, such as drop shadow, buttonize, seamless welder,
- gradient fill, hot wax coating, chisel and cutout. Your
- possibilities are endless when you use any of these creative tools.
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- Paint Shop Pro also provides image viewing and printing functions
- to provide you complete control over how your images appear.
- Support for TWAIN compliant scanners is also included.
- GIF Transparency is fully supported. Paint Shop Pro provides
- support for the following image file formats:
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- BMP, CDR, CGM, CLP, CMX, CUT, DIB, DRW, DXF, EPS, GEM, GIF,
- HPGL, IFF, IMG, JIF, JPG, LBM, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCX, PIC,
- PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAW, RAS, RLE, TIFF, TGA, WMF,
- WPG, PICT, PCT
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- Part 2: Distribution Requirements
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- The shareware version of Paint Shop Pro may be freely
- distributed, with the following restrictions; written permission
- must be received to distribute Paint Shop Pro on retail racks,
- on CD Roms, or bundled with any other product.
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- BBSs - please name the file PSP412.xxx.
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- When distributing Paint Shop Pro the following files must be
- distributed together.
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- SETUP.EXE
- SETUP.W02
- SETUP.W03
- README.DOC
- VENDOR.DOC
- FILE_ID.DIZ
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- Disk Vendors, Shareware Distributors and BBS(s) may charge a
- nominal fee for distribution of the program. The recipient of
- Paint Shop Pro must be informed, in advance, that the fee paid
- to acquire Paint Shop Pro does not relieve the recipient from
- purchasing the Licensed Version of Paint Shop Pro if the
- recipient continues to use Paint Shop Pro.
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