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The powerful image creation tool with Natural-Media MetaCreations Painter is the indisputable leader for Natural-Media image creation, enhancement, retouching, and compositing, commanding the loyalty of more than one-quarter million artists and graphics designers worldwide. New Web authoring enhancements allow you to divide your images with precision to optimize download time with the new Image Slicing tool. Design seamless tiled background patterns. Assign URL's to any image slice or floating layer for quick client-side image maps. Add visual punch to your pages with easy-to-use JavaScript rollovers. And if that's not enough, Painter 5.5 Web Edition gives you Dynamic Text. Insert and edit, tilt, rotate, stretch and scale your words--all with automatic, yet configurable, drop shadows

Timeless Natural-Media.
Create timeless imagery from scratch or from scanned images.

Powerful Image Editing Effects.
Adjust colors, apply lighting, create blurs and distortions, and apply impressionist looks like the pros.

Compatibility.
Use popular plug-in filters, like the new Kai's Power Tools®, to transform common images into timeless treasures.

Take your Work to the web.
Take your images from concept to the Web--using one ,application. As an added bonus, you'll get hundreds—no,thousands—of new ready-to-use, web-friendly buttons, background tiles and images.

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Dynamic Text.
Floating Layers and Dynamic Plug-in Floaters
plus much, much more.