The New and Enhanced Tools of PaintShop Pro X5

•Instant Effects palette: a number of preset effects and styles like Black & White, Film, Landscape, and Artistic, and users can create their own
•Retro Lab: to apply and create old-school color as well as contrast effects to images, achieving a distinctive look .
•Enhanced High Dynamic Range tools: To create intense Black and White contrast, easy photo alignment, and applying presets to the HDR batch processing
•Single RAW Photo: This allows users to use a single RAW photo to create HDR results
•Graduated Filter effect: This makes Semi-transparent color gradients
•Enhanced Layer Styles: adds the ability to apply styles like drop shadow, glow or reflections from the Layers palette directly
•New Enhanced Paint Brush: the new Watercolor brush plus the enhanced ability of importing Adobe Photoshop brushes
•New Enhanced Corel Guide:this is built-in instructional videos, that are easy to follow tutorials and are free to download.
•New Places: Maps images to specific real world locations and enable users to view and search photos quickly based on their geographical information
•New Share My Trip: This shares your travel pictures online with a slideshow directly linking pictures to an interactive map
•New People: This is face recognition technology to help users identify individuals and tag them for simpler social sharing and photo management