Photography News - The latest digital photography hardware and software news, reviews, articles, tips, techniques and more!

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CREL; TSX: CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today unveiled Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4, the latest release from the company’s digital media portfolio. Based on Corel Painter, the world’s most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel Painter Essentials 4 includes everything new users need to set up their own home art studio. Featuring a wide selection of paint brushes, pencils, paper textures and built-in tutorials, Painter Essentials 4 is the perfect program to help users get started with digital art and create stunning paintings - either from existing photos or from scratch.

Working closely with its customers, Corel redesigned the Painter Essentials user interface to make it even easier for users to discover the tools they need to create stunning artwork. Available on the Windows® and Mac® platforms, Painter Essentials 4 is ideally suited to digital camera users, scrapbookers, arts and craft enthusiasts, art teachers and students of any age. With art tools that faithfully replicate their traditional counterparts, it is easier than ever before for users to achieve more expressive hand painted works of art. 

Corel Corporation ( NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE ), a leading developer of graphics, productivity, and digital media software, today announced the launch of Corel® MediaOne® Plus, the newest release from Corel’s expanded digital media portfolio. The best choice for point-and-shoot digital camera users who want to express their creativity as well as organize, edit and share their photos and video clips, Corel MediaOne Plus is the fast, fun and easy photo and video software. With easy-to-use tools for photo retouching, effortless organization, simple video editing and automatic online backup and sharing from Sharpcast™, Corel MediaOne Plus is the ideal software solution to enrich the way consumers live, work and play.

Corel Corporation today announced a new update to Corel® Snapfire™, a breakthrough digital photo and video enhancement and sharing software renowned for its remarkable ease of use and breadth of creative projects. The new release, Snapfire 1.2, has received Works with Windows Vista™ certification to ensure optimized performance on this new operating system. In addition, Snapfire Plus 1.2 – the enhanced version of Snapfire 1.2 – includes integration with muvee™ autoProducer 5, an instant personal movie tool that automatically edits videos and synchronizes stylish visual effects to the beat of music soundtracks.

Corel Corporation today announced that Corel® Painter™ X, the world’s most powerful painting and illustration software, is now available for pre-order from http://www.corel.co.uk/painterx. The latest version of Corel Painter continues its focus on giving professional artists, designers and photographers a natural painting and illustration experience that is unmatched by any other software.

Corel has released a free update to Paint Shop Pro Photo XI which extends Corel’s support for camera raw formats, including a significant improvement in the quality of imported raw images, enhanced support for IPTC metadata, and suport for additional camera models (Nikon D200, Sony DSC-F828, and Sony DSC-V3). Corel will continue to add support for new models in future updates of Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. 

Corel Corporation today announced Corel Snapfire DVD Maker, the first add-on for the new Corel Snapfire Plus - the smart alternative to traditional digital camera software. With Corel Snapfire DVD Maker, it is easier than ever to turn fun and creative slide shows of your photos and videos into DVDs and play them back for friends and family on television DVD players.