Corel Photo Shop X2

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For those new to X2, there is handy feature for adding drama to your photos, especially castles and over-exposed skys, is the "clarify". From the drop-down menu at the top >adjust>brightness and contrast>clarify. It's range is from 1-20. Some experimentation with this can help add depth to otherwise flat photos.

I used to have PSP2 on my old computer which sadly died one day and I lost it. Not sure how I could get it back without having to pay for it all over again.

Liked it though.

I enjoy taking photographs but am not really that technically minded.  I have no idea what photo shop is or what HDR is.  Can anyone enlighten me. 

Susan, HDR means High Dynamic Range, its basically a collection of different photos, taken of exactly the same subject at the same time, but using different exposures, from under exposed to over exposed, the results can be stunning, although some don't like them, i've yet to give it a go!!

Photoshop is a photo editing program, you can alter the contrast, tweak the colours a little, just generally tidy photos up, as used to be done in the dark room! or you can do crazy things to your photos, add people, add buildings, change things completely, its a great program, but again some prefer not to use it, its all down to personal preference.

Welcome Jane! Jason is right on all accounts. I might add that when taking digital photos you will get more out of them to your liking by having a photo editing software of some sort. There are many out there. Photoshop is the grand-daddy of them all and will let you do any possible thing to your photos that you could imagine, but it's very expensive ( around $600 in the States ). PaintShop Pro is a more modest program the also gives many possibilities in photo editing. I use the X2 version (12th, latest) and find it more than capable ( about $50 in the States).

As Jason said, HDR is a photo with high dynamic contrast range. By taking 5 or 7 photos of the exact same thing and having range in exposure from underexposure to overexposure. You would then combine those multiple photos into 1 photo using a photo editing program. In essence,this will give light to areas that are dark and darkness to areas that are light. These make for very dramatic photographs. Hope we were able to help....Rob

I use photoshop elements, quite a bit cheaper, and minus a few of the features in photoshop cs, but still pretty good.