The latest Paint Shop Pro features new enhanced filters. It has Digital Camera Noise Removal, which not only scans photos it also eliminates image noise introduced at sensor while intelligently preserving image textures. Its Chromatic Aberration Removal removes undesirable coloured glow around images caused by digital cameras. It contains a Fill Flash Filter that corrects underexposure of shadows and Backlighting Filter compensates for overexposed areas.

Not only does this software handle existing photos, it can also create images from scratch in both bitmap and vector format. It also has Rectangle and Oval tools. The Pen tool in this version is a lot simpler.

The new Art Media tool is a realistic art-based functionality that contains tools including Oil Brush, Palette Knife, Chalk, Pastel, Crayons, Colored Pencil and Marker. This tool features a traditional-style Mixer that’s just like those traditional artist’s tools. You can add, mix and sample your paint on an off-canvas area using new dockable palette. You can also convert photos to an artistic version by setting colour to Trace, it automatically samples underlying colour.

However, working with this software requires longer time, but you can be assured of great results. It can convert average photos to outstanding shots with eye-popping quality and clarity.

Well, at end of each working day, put tape into drive. And as obvious as this sounds, correct tape should be placed in drive. For example, placing "Week 2" tape instead of "Week 3" tape in tape drive will reduce effectiveness of your tape rotation strategy! Your tape backup software should take care of rest.

In addition, you should monitor results of each backup to check for errors. For example, if a tape wears out and data cannot be verified, you need to take action and replace that tape. If some problem prevented a backup from completing, you need to know about it so that you can re-run backup next morning.

Be sure to also follow your manufacturer's guidelines for drive cleaning and maintenance.

Final notes

As strange as this seems, you should be at mercy of your tape backup software. And more control it exerts over you, better! Let me explain...

NTBackup assumes that you insert correct tape and it doesn't inform you of any errors. You are responsible for selecting tape according to your tape rotation scheme, and onus is on you to read result logs and discover if any errors occurred.

This means that file backup process is tedious and prone to human error. A complete solution for tape backup should take charge of your backup strategy for you.

A tape backup program should email tape rotation instructions and results of backups to you or your secretary, making your task far simpler and minimizing chance of human error. Select right tape backup software and you're already most of way to implementing a complete tape backup strategy for your business.