This program was originally developed by Jasc and when development was taken over by the team over at Corel, they were able to use their previous experience with image editing to improve the workflow of PSP. Paintshop Pro promises some of the most advanced features without having to shell out for other editing suites with higher pricetags.ĭigital photo editing is also made easy with rotating, applying effects, touch-ups and more. There’s no apparent rhyme or reason for why it’s organized this way.Paintshop Pro is one of the easiest and most flexible and affordable image editing suites. Some tools, such as cropping, red eye, and straightening appear in toolbar form under the histogram, but you have to access Smart Photo Fix, white balance, fill light, and others from a textual list below. Here again, though, Corel’s interface instincts strike a sour note.
Among other difficulties, browsing photos by people is difficult because you see tightly cropped faces only, not the entire image.įor a fast, lightweight editor, head over to the Adjust workspace, which houses about a dozen common tools Corel deems useful for lightweight editing and as go-to tools for novices. They also give you access to a face recognition mode, but it’s perhaps more trouble than it’s worth. They let you tag photos for easier retrieval, and they load more quickly as well. If you don’t use Corel’s “collections,” though, you’re missing out. You can avoid the Manage view entirely, if you like: The program doesn’t force you to import photos into a proprietary library, so you can always navigate through existing folders. You can turn various panes, palettes, and toolbars off and rearrange things to your liking. Although this view is perhaps the most crowded and confusing, it’s all highly configurable. You inspect photos, review metadata, and enter ratings and keywords there. The Manage workspace is sort of like a light box mode. The Manage workspace makes it easy to review and edit metadata, as well as index your photos into “collections” for faster searching and browsing. You access the three workspaces-Manage, Adjust, and Editing-via tabs at the top of the screen. PaintShop Pro’s relatively unchanged interface puts efficient design second to displaying lots and lots of tools. The ship needs a new quartermaster, though. Everything is snappier, giving the impression that you’re at the helm of a tightly run ship.
Images-both JPG and RAW-load about 10 percent faster, and X6 catalogs folders and displays images more than twice as fast. Using my own stopwatch, I found that on the same PC, X6 shaves a few seconds off the startup time. PaintShop Pro’s Edit workspace is essentially unchanged from previous editions, but that doesn’t diminish its power, including layer and mask support and a bevy of selection tools.
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