Article: Hands on - Digital imaging & video - What's hot in Paint Shop Pro 9. Noise removal and displacement maps can be extremely useful - here's how.

Byline: Ken McMahon.

In last December's PCW (page 75) I reviewed Jasc's Paint Shop Pro 9 (PSP). This is a good upgrade and PSP users should be pleased with the new features and improvements. Nonetheless, I concluded that PSP was still no match for Photoshop. It must irritate the pants off Jasc that PSP continues to be compared with an application costing five times as much, but it's also quite flattering, particularly when the cheaper product comes out on top.

More often than not it's the other way around, though. PSP 9's new Fill Flash and Backlighting filters aren't a patch on Photoshop's Shadows/Highlights and if you want to rescue shadow detail in ...

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