

Making the adjustments are intuitive and you see them instantly. Here I’ve adjusted Highlight/Midtone/Shadow. There are lots of photo adjustments including digital noise removal, white balance, color, brightness and contrast, hue and saturation, depth of field, and lots more. I wasn’t able to capture a full layout (which would be awesome for layout designers, which hopefully can be added through a plugin) but it works great for screen captures. The capture automatically opens the image in PSP. This is a screen capture tool with several options for screens, objects, etc. Take two photos of the same scene with different exposure settings and merge them to create a new image with the elements you want from each. This is great for changing which direction someone is facing, making them smile, etc. The photos need to be from the same scene and works best if they have the same settings. Photo BlendĬombine elements from multiple photos to create a new photo with those elements. Here are a few of the tools that stand out to me. Retouch features include selection tools, remove red-eye, remove objects with magic fill or clone tools, restore with fade correction, etc. It includes HDR tools, lens correction, edit RAW, makeover tools, batch processing (which saved me a lot of time resizing the images of this article), one-click fixes, crop, straighten, correct perspective, drawing and painting tools, layers, text, gradients, and use scripts to create actions of repetitive tasks. Adjust the Workspace and Background colors in the View menu. You can switch from one to the other in the File menu. If you switch between the two Workspaces you can get back to the image you were working with by clicking on it under Recent Files. The Home icon takes you back to the Welcome screen. The Manage Tab shows thumbnails of the images in my current folder. You can choose the size of the toolbar, icons, etc., and choose which tools appear on the toolbar. The Complete Workspace was designed with professionals in mind and includes the Home, Manage, and Edit tabs, and the professional design tools.

The Home tab takes you back to the Welcome screen. You can add tools to your simplified toolbar, making this a good choice to add to as you learn or for professionals that want to only see the tools they use. It includes the essential tools that beginners would need. The Essentials Workspace removes the advanced tools to create a cleaner workspace. The color of the Welcome screen will match the Workspace you used last. Both user interfaces are designed to make PSP easier to learn. PSP opens to a welcome screen where you can see your recent files, see what’s new, access the tutorials, see user galleries, get expansions and other content, choose between the two user interfaces, create a new project, open a template, or open a file.
