Serif Launches PhotoPlus X3!

[Dale_Cook]

Hello everyone!

Serif is delighted to announce the launch of the latest title in its award-winning software range, PhotoPlus X3, the professional digital image editing solution.

Whether you’re quickly resizing holiday snaps, removing flaws from portraits, adjusting exposure and colour levels, restoring old images, importing Adobe® Photoshop® documents, layering and masking professional artwork, or transforming photos with unique effects and artistic styles, PhotoPlus X3 Digital Studio has everything you need to achieve the highest quality results – fast.

Some of the great new features and benefits include:

• Raw Studio: Quickly edit unprocessed Raw image files from your digital camera and make professional adjustments at original quality.
• HDR Imaging: Create stunning and dramatic High Dynamic Range images by blending multiple exposures.
• High Colour Image Editing: Open, edit and save images professionally using incredibly high levels of colour (16-bits per channel colour depth, offering over 280 trillion colours).
• Black and White Studio: Automated tools for creating stylish black and white images, offered from within the extremely useful set of 'How To' guides.
• Print Studio: An enhanced print system gives more layout flexibility for printing single images, multiple images, and contact sheets.
• HD Photo Support: Open, edit, and export HD Photos, around half the size and higher quality than typical JPG files.
• Improved QuickFix Studio and Filter Gallery: Improve photos with new fixes such as noise reduction and exposure adjustment as well as new effects filters including kaleidoscope, page curl and film grain.
• Improved Performance: More of PhotoPlus's powerful feature set is now optimised for multi-core processors, so editing is more productive than ever.

Of course there are also numerous other improvements and we encourage you to follow some of the links below to learn more about this exciting new program!

Useful links:
PhotoPlus X3 Overview (has 5 subpages)
PhotoPlus X3 What’s New (has 3 sections on a long page)
PhotoPlus X3 Video Intro (requires Flash® plug-in)
PhotoPlus X3 Screenshots and Samples
PhotoPlus X3 User Guide (PDF file)
PhotoPlus X3 System Requirements

If you have any other questions please post them here.

Kind regards, Dale Cook
Serif Product Information Manager

[Dave S]

Dale

Great news. Couple of questions: 1. does PhP X3 provide all the RAW functionality of say RawTherapee and other RAW editors? 2. Can you save to 48 bit Tiff files?

Thanks

Regards

Dave

[Dale_Cook]

Hi Dave, I can't speak of Raw Therapee yet, am downloading it just now, but yes PhotoPlus X3 can save images as 48-bit TIFF (or 64-bit with transparency).

Dale.

[Dave S]

Thanks Dale

Sounds good, I think you'll find Raw Therapee pretty comprehensive. BTW the user guide does not yet seem to be posted - File not found!

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Originally Posted by Dave S BTW the user guide does not yet seem to be posted - File not found!

I noticed a capitalisation error in the link, when compared to other manuals, e.g. Instead of:

http://www.serif.com/community/pdfs/PhotoPlusx2.pdf

The link is:

http://www.serif.com/community/pdfs/photoplusx3-uk.pdf

Should be:

http://www.serif.com/community/pdfs/PhotoPlusx3-uk.pdf

but that doesn't work either.

Try: http://www.serif.com/community/pdfs/PhotoPlusx3.pdf

[pmcleod]

I found the file but acrobat reader said it was corrupted

[MikeR]

I'm getting a 'damaged file' error message.

[Dave S]

Nope, still no joy.

[Dale_Cook]

Hi folks, we've identified a corrupt upload and will replace the online PDF user guide ASAP.

Thanks, Dale.

[Dave S]

Dale, Just went to the purchase upgrade page and there's no mention of the user guide or resource CD being included. Is this the case?

Regards

Dave

[pmcleod]

Dave it might help a little if I said I bought the download upgrade and there is a note to phone serif and i MAY qualify for them to send a free resource CD, however printed manuals have always been an extra, £9.99 in this case, there is of course a free pdf manual

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by pmcleod Dave it might help a little if I said I bought the download upgrade and there is a note to phone serif and i MAY qualify for them to send a free resource CD, however printed manuals have always been an extra, £9.99 in this case, there is of course a free pdf manual

Hi Pete

I usually but not always wait for an offer from Natasha - haven't had one of those lately, which includes the User guide and resource CD. But I've never received any Serif SW to date, offer or otherwise that hasn't included these.

Regards

Dave

[pmcleod]

Yes I think Natasha's offers do usually also offer the manuals, but the online purchases I think have always had them seperated, there is an option to add manual for ten quid during purchase. This is so ingrained in serif sales that they forgot to give away the free manual with DSA downloads even though it came with the cd version, serif did offer the full manual for that one program to all purchasers.

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by pmcleod Yes I think Natasha's offers do usually also offer the manuals, but the online purchases I think have always had them seperated, there is an option to add manual for ten quid during purchase. This is so ingrained in serif sales that they forgot to give away the free manual with DSA downloads even though it came with the cd version, serif did offer the full manual for that one program to all purchasers.

Have to disagree there Pete - at least in my experience. I bought WP X2 last March , not long after release, (don't recall that being an offer) and WP 10 the year before from Amazon, which definitely wasn't an offer and both came with res CD and User guide.

Regs

Dave

[Jim B.]

Originally Posted by Dale_Cook Hello everyone! Serif is delighted to announce the launch of the latest title in its award-winning software range, PhotoPlus X3, the professional digital image editing solution.

Excellent! Awaiting E-mail offer from the mysterious Natasha.

[Dave S]

Originally Posted by Jim B. Excellent! Awaiting E-mail offer from the mysterious Natasha.

Jim, I'm still waiting for such an offer from Natasha on DP X3!

[pmcleod]

Originally Posted by Dave S Have to disagree there Pete - at least in my experience. I bought WP X2 last March , not long after release, (don't recall that being an offer) and WP 10 the year before from Amazon, which definitely wasn't an offer and both came with res CD and User guide. Regs Dave

we'll have to agree to differ
I've only ever got manuals from Natasha or a serif phone call to me, I was sure I'd seen some comment by a serif employee so went in search ,the attached from the daisytrail forum

[dave61430]

Well, I've just ordered my upgrade (from PhP 9). I would like to have seen keyboard shortcuts, but I've been playing with the competition and overall I think I'll be happiest with PhP. Never had to make a choice with my newsletter, once I found PagePlus never had to look at anything else.
Apart from the product itself, I really like Serif, I mean I've had PhP 9 for years yet they still honor the upgrade price and the forums are excellent.
Dave Cohen

[euruic]

Will the image cut-out studio be the same as it is in PhotoPlus X2 or will it be improved like it is in PagePlus X3?

[pmcleod]

Originally Posted by euruic Will the image cut-out studio be the same as it is in PhotoPlus X2 or will it be improved like it is in PagePlus X3?

It doesn't have the cutout studio of DPx3 or PPx£ but the old extractor though that may have been improved, not had chance to try yet