Picture Window Pro



Picture Window Pro is a powerful photo editing tool designed for serious photographers with demanding creative and quality standards. It provides a comprehensive set of over 50 photo manipulation and retouching tools which allow you to control and shape every aspect of your images and to create high quality prints, page layouts, multimedia electronic slide shows and other forms of output. It handles 24 and 48 bit images, and is fully color-managed, including soft print proofing. It includes a powerful Raw converter with advanced features like highlight recovery and noise reduction. Its batch workflow features allow you to easily work with the flood of images digital cameras now produce.



Pro Features



Image Editing

Full control over all color and black+white image parameters

Choice of quick and easy slider controls or full featured curves and histograms

Full support for 48 bit color/16 bit B+W

Full color management support

Integrated powerful raw converter.

Powerful curves and histograms for brightness and color channels

Advanced resizing algorithms including Bicubic and Lanczos

Blur and sharpening including Unsharp Mask

Advanced sharpening with noise reduction, auto de-specking, selective application

Lens Corrections including chromatic aberration, barrel, pincushion, light falloff, perspective

Selective Color control for adjusting selected color while leaving overall balance undisturbed

HDR/Image stacker for combining bracketed exposures for extended dynamic range

Full set of freehand tools — brush, clone, speck removal, dodge & burn





Raw File Support

Powerful raw dialog includes color correction,exposure, brightness and contrast settings and sharpening.

Advanced features include Highlight Recovery, Noise Reduction and Bad Pixel Repair.

Sidecar files record all raw settings for each image without modifying the original raw file.





Special Effects

Large selection of special effects including posterize, tint, emboss, kaleidoscope, spiral, tile, text, calendar, drop shadow, and many more.





Masking & Composite Images

Extensive tools for creating masks (selections)

Use of masks to control application of most transformations

Full support for composite images with precise alignment, rotation, scaling, and perspective control of overlay images





Batch Workflow and Automation

Create batch workflows and apply them to dozens or even hundreds of images in the background. Great for preparing images for the web.

Redo a previous transformation and then automatically re-apply all subsequent changes.

Edit similar images automatically by applying a workflow you developed for one image to as many others as you like.

Save the workflow as a sidecar file of the original image to archive your editing steps exactly. You will have the option to apply the workflow when you next open the image.





Organizing and Browsing

Thumbnail display of images — simply drag and drop to open

Create new folders and organize images without leaving Picture Window

Print index prints, including CD & DVD case formats for archiving





Printing & Output

Color managed printing with full control over borders, image size and cropping in print dialog

Poster printing option prints single image over multiple sheets

Convenient soft print proofing.

Innovative monitor curves for better monitor-print matching

Slide show with sound, captions & descriptions — playback via web browser for easy sharing





Photo Album

Automatic layout of images in choice of standard sizes from wallet on up.

Very flexible manual layout. Create your own photo essays, even whole albums

Easy multi-page multi-image per page printing

Integrated with PW editing functions — edit images directly from the album





Frame and Mat Design

Explore frame and mats options to arrive at a design which displays your image to its best advantage. You can experiment with single and double mat designs and with different colors and textures and different framing options. For example, you can choose among a variety of frame profiles, varying width and color to suit your image.



Save the matted and framed image as a file and post it on a web site or social media.

Print out your image together with the textured mats in your chosen colors for easy, immediate framing.

Output full cutting dimensions of you design and use it for conventional matting and framing.





Calibrating Cameras and Scanners

PWP lets you create ICC color profiles for cameras and scanners for high-fidelity color rendition. The profile can be used within Picture Window to accurately display the image.







System Requirements:



Systems running on Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7 & 8, Windows NT5 and Window 2000.