Touch Screen Software

Corel has developed two touch screen applications compatible with Windows 7. These are Corel Paint it! Touch and Corel Digital Studio 2010.

Finger painting with a touch screen application - Photo by naHQun

Corel Paint it! Touch: With this touch screen application artists of all ages can draw, paint and even turn photos into paintings using just their fingertips. Corel Paint it! Touch is available for both PC and Mac. It has 20 different types of artistic media that includes watercolor, oil, acrylic, crayon, chalk, spray paint etc. You can even add fairy dust, among many others, as an effect to your paintings. With Corel Paint it! Touch drawing and painting becomes more fun and easy as you can move, zoom, rotate, and drag your canvas using your fingertips right on the screen. Turning your photos into painting has never been easier. With as few as 3 mouse clicks or taps on the screen you can watch your photo magically turn into a painting. The RealBristle Technology implemented in the software gives your painting an authentic look.

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Corel Digital Studio 2010: Corel Digital Studio 2010 is a fully integrated multimedia editing software. It contains Corel VideoStudio Express, Corel PaintShop Photo Express, Corel WinDVD, Corel DVD Factory, Corel Instant Viewer, Corel Digital Studio Gadget. It has an easy to use, sleek user interface. With a touch computer you can increase your work flow as it supports many multi-touch gestures to manipulate your photos and videos.

These gestures include: swipe from side to side to browse photos; pinch to zoom; swivel two fingers to rotate or drag images, photo book pages and slider bars. With these touch screen applications you can edit photos, edit videos, make photo albums, burn DVDs, and playback DVDs. After you are done editing your photos or videos you can easily share them on different internet sites like Youtube, Facebook, Flickr or email them to you friends and family using Gmail from the program itself. Corel Digital Studio also allows you to send your photos to Corel’s printing service to get them professionally printed. If you have a TV tuner on your PC, DVD Factory can record TV feeds directly to DVD so that you can view a favorite program when it suits your schedule.

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Windows 7 is the first version of Windows to fully support multi-touch features. The interface is much more finger-friendly and so are the included touch screen applications, such as Paint. If you own a multitouch LCD monitor, you probably already have Windows 7 running on your computer. But to fully experience the magic of touch, you will want to install some additional touch screen software.

1. Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7

Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7 is a collection of touch screen games and other touch screen software.

The Touch Pack includes:

• Microsoft Blackboard, a physics puzzle game.
• Microsoft Garden Pond, a tranquil game that takes place in serene Japanese water gardens.
• Microsoft Rebound, use your fingertips to control spheres with an electrical field between them to catapult a metal game ball into your opponent’s goal.
• Microsoft Surface Globe, application allowing you to explore the earth as a flat 2-D map or as a 3-D globe.
• Microsoft Surface Collage, explore and interact with your photos and arrange them as a desktop background.
• Microsoft Surface Lagoon, a screen saver and interactive water simulation, complete with playful, shy fish.

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2. Corel Digital Studio 2010

Corel Digital Studio 2010 is a multimedia content organizer. Organize, view and edit photos, videos and music in one place using your fingers. In addition to burning them to DVDs or CDs Corel Digital Studio supprots uploading and sharing to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.

Check out the video tour of Digital Studio 2010:

3. Corel Paint it! touch

MS Paint may give you the feel of fingerpainting. But for the true fingerpainting experience there is Corel Paint it! touch. Perfect for parents, kids and anyone who likes doodling and sketching. Corel Paint it! touch has a wide range of gesture support – move, zoom, flick, rotate, tap, drag and scroll—right on screen, using nothing but your fingertips. It also includes plenty of fun features such as realistic mixer pallete – a movable mixer palette, you can use to mix colors. I also supports different types of artistic media (such as oil, acrylic and spray paint) and various paper textures.

4. WinDVD Pro 2010

WinDVD Pro 2010 is the leading DVD player software for high-quality video playback. With fully enabled Windows 7 touch screen support, you can control playback, scene selections and browse media library

WinDVD Pro 2010

And the winner?

Sadly, selection of good touch screen software is still quite poor. BumpTop is no longer available for download and Asus is making their software only bundled with their computers (read the Touch Gate software review). With the exception of a few giants, like Microsoft and Corel, no major companies seem to be interested in developing touch enabled software for the PC…

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