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JASC Paint Shop releases: 1990?–1993[edit]

In the table below, italicized dates are approximate, based on the earliest file timestamp on JASC or Corel's FTP server. Non-italicized dates are sourced from official press releases or notifications posted on JASC's web site.

JASC Paint Shop Pro releases: 1990–2004[edit]

Corel Paint Shop Pro releases: 2005[edit]

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo releases: 2006–2008[edit]

Corel PaintShop Photo Pro releases: 2010-2011[edit]

Corel PaintShop Pro releases: 2011–present[edit]

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• Pros

  Photoshop-like features at a lower price. Powerful effects and editing tools. Face recognition. Tutorials. Good assortment of vector drawing tools.

• Cons

  Some operations still slow. Interface can get cluttered. Ineffective chromatic aberration removal.

• Bottom Line

  Corel continues to add new photo-editing possibilities to its PaintShop Pro photo-editing software, making it a worthy Photoshop alternative at a value-conscious price.

Who needs Photoshop? Corel's photo software competitor, PaintShop Pro, does nearly everything you need, without the overhead of subscription payments. It edits both raster and vector image formats—something you'd need two of Adobe's Creative Cloud apps to do. You do miss out on the Adobe's flagship photo editor's most advanced tools, though, including 3D modeling, detailed typography, Camera Shake Reduction, and Face Liquefy. Performance in some photo editing operations lags a bit behind the industry standard, too. PaintShop's interface has improved over the years, but it's not as polished as Adobe's application. If you're not committed to the Adobe ecosystem and don't mind that it's Windows-only, PaintShop Pro is a worthy alternative, especially given its low cost.

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Pricing and Options

PaintShop Pro 2019 is available directly from Corel for $79.99 (or $59.99 as an upgrade from any previous version), and it's frequently discounted. The Ultimate edition ($99.99, $79.99 upgrade) throws in more software—AfterShot (Corel's photo workflow app), Perfectly Clear (an excellent automatic photo corrector), and Live Screen Capture (for screen recording). The one-time pricing model may be a good fit for those who resent Adobe's subscription-only model for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator. For $9.99 per month, you get both Photoshop and Lightroom, but Illustrator starts at $19.99 per month, for a year prepaid. Photoshop Elements ($99), Adobe's consumer-level photo editing software, carries no subscription, but that has more of a hobbyist feel.

Getting Started With PaintShop Pro

PaintShop runs on Windows 7 through Windows 10—Mac users are out of luck, as mentioned earlier. You first install a small downloader program that completes the installation. You have to choose whether you want 32-bit, 64-bit, or both—the last means you'll be compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit plug-ins. After this step, I had to install an update immediately. Corel offers downloadable effect packs, too, such as ParticleShop brushes and ColorScript color effects (for $14.99 and $4.99, respectively). I installed PaintShop Pro on my test PC, a 4K touch-screen Asus Zen AiO Pro Z240IC all-in-one PC. Most of the program is adapted just fine to 4K monitors, but I still found some dialogs, such as the Effect Browser, that use tiny icons.

What's New in PaintShop Pro

For those who are already familiar with PaintShop, below is a cheat sheet of what's new for the 2019 version.

• Pic-to-Painting Presets. Similar to CyberLink PhotoDirector, PaintShop now offers Prisma-like, AI-generated artistic filters.
• 360-Degree Camera Support. Though the shine of 360-degree photography is fading a bit, PaintShop lets you rotate, level, and remove the tripod from the image. It also offers the fun tiny planet effect, more often associated with video editing.
• Improved Crop Toolbar. This now includes a Save as New Image option, as well as letting you apply presets, one-step photo fixes, and depth of field effects.
• Stylus and Tablet Support. Pair PaintShop Pro with the latest WinTab-aware input devices, as well as Windows Ink.
• Performance Improvements. This is the biggest one for me: PaintShop was notoriously much slower than competitors in previous versions.
• Customizable UI. You can change the fonts and size of interface components.
• New Color Palettes, Brushes, and Gradient Patterns. The 2019 edition of PaintShop adds 10 new predefined color schemes, 10 new brush tips, and 10 new gradient patterns.

Interface

The first time you run PaintShop, it gives you a walkthrough of the basic interface features. The updated Welcome screen lets you switch between Essentials and Complete workspaces (the former is much easier on the eyes). From here you can also start with project templates, tutorials, recent files, or your user image gallery. A new touch is a row of buttons along the bottom linking to help and new features like Pic-to-Painting. You can always get back to the Welcome screen from any other mode by tapping the big home icon.

PaintShop's templates are similar to the Create dialog that appears when you first run Photoshop CC. The New Image dialog's Blank Canvas tab is rich with choices like Photo, Paper, Web, Mobile, and Social. One thing I didn't see, which Photoshop has, is a Clipboard choice that sizes your new project to an image you've copied. A first-run wizard helps familiarize you with the workspaces. The New From Template tab, like Photoshop's, offers several document types, including calendars, collages, cards, business reports, and social media. Most of these are in-app purchases—in both programs—though you can create your own custom templates.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X5 Activation Codes

The interface is customizable when it comes to color and the size of elements such as icons and scroll bars. These options get their own main menu option: User Interface. The main window's side panels can also be undocked or dismissed. The Essentials workspace is better suited to touch input, like that supported by my test machine, but it's not quite as finely tuned as it is in Photoshop, which supports gestures like two-finger twisting to rotate.

When editing a photo, a slider lets you zoom in or out to any magnification you choose, unlike Lightroom, which restricts you to set ratios like 1:2, 1:3, and 1:1. There is a 1:1 button in PaintShop, however, and you can zoom in and out simply by spinning the mouse wheel.

In the Complete workspace, there are just two modes: Manage and Edit. Corel dropped Adjust, since that term isn't widely understood by photo hobbyists. Unlike Adobe Photoshop Elements, which has a separate Organizer app, you do everything in PaintShop in the same window, but you switch modes for different functions.

Within Manage you have subviews, like Maps and People Finder, and the first time you change modes, you get another tour. The program includes sample images, so you're not starting from zero. Additionally, the Edit mode still includes the right-panel Learning Center, which helps with many image-editing procedures.

Manage

As its name suggests, this is where you organize your photo collection. Like Photoshop, PaintShop is not a photo workflow application, even though it includes tools for organizing and outputting. It's especially evident when importing photos, because you don't get to preview or tag images on import. PaintShop lacks big Import button you find in workflow apps such as Adobe Lightroom. You can now import content from previous versions of PaintShop, including not only photos, but also brushes, gradients, and Picture Tubes—as long as it's stored in the standard folders.

After importing images, you can add star ratings, as well as tags for keywords, people, and places. You can also create collections, including Smart Collections of photos that meet specified criteria, such as date, name, or tags. Smart Collections let you specify criteria, such as text in the file name or image size to automatically create a Collection.

On the left panel is source navigation, with folders and collections. In the center is your main content view—thumbnails, full image, or a map showing photo locations based on GPS data. You can double tap a thumb for a quick full-screen preview with options for rating, rotating, deleting, or launching the image in the editor. Images aren't overwritten when you save edits, but saved in PaintShop's own PSP format. You can also save in Adobe PSD format, along with dozens of other standard image formats.

Essentials Workspace

The new Essentials Workspace addresses one of my major beefs about PaintShop—its cluttered interface. Not only is it drastically simplified while maintaining tools frequently needed, but you can also add or remove tools to suit your needs. There are still quite a number of menu choices along the top—14 of them, compared with Photoshop's 11 and Photoshop Elements' 10. Photoshop even lets you create custom workspaces and offers six options by default to PaintShop's two. Elements has Quick, Guided, and Expert modes, which can be thought of as workspaces.

360-Degree Photo Editing

When you first try to open a 360-degree image file, a dialog asks whether you want to edit it as 360-degree image or to open for adjustments and effects. The latter doesn't affect the geometry of the photo. Instead, you can manipulate just the lighting and color effects, as though it were a warped 2D photo. Doing so keeps it in 360 format with your lighting corrections, so you can still upload it to Facebook or other 360 viewers. Corel helpfully includes a few sample 360 files for experimentation.

Opening an image in 360-degree mode presents a separate editing window and an explanatory dialog showing what you can do with the file type. There are really just four editing options: Straighten, Remove Tripod, 360-to-Panorama, and Planet effects. The last two convert the image from 360 to a standard format like JPG after applying the effect.

The most useful tool is Straighten, which worked well in my testing. This option removes the unnatural curves of your 360-degree photo and lets you pick a viewing angle for the resulting image. You can pan around with the mouse or use slider controls for Pan, Tilt, Field of View (zoom), and Rotate. Then you save your work as a standard 2D photo in the format of your choice.

Remove Tripod switches your view to facing down, where a tripod normally would appear. You select the tripod with a circle, a free selection tool, or a square, and then apply Magic Fill to match the surrounding terrain. The Panorama option is mostly just a crop tool—it didn't convert the image to a natural looking panorama as the Straighten tool does.

The Planet effects include Tiny planet and its opposite, Rabbit Hole. The tool worked just fine on the sample images.

One minor annoyance with the 360 editing window is that hitting Cancel after one operation takes you out of the 360 editor. I often wanted to switch from, say, Straighten to Panorama, but I had to start over instead.

New Crop Tool

The most commonly used photo editing tool by far is the crop tool. It may seem that there's nothing to it, but Adobe supercharged Photoshop's crop tool, even adding AI-powered auto-suggested cropping (now also found in Photoshop Elements). Corel continues to give attention to its own crop tool, too. It gives you a better idea of your final result by darkening the rest of the image. It offers overlays for composition guides, including golden spiral, golden ratio, and rule of thirds. When you rotate with the tool, the crop box stays put while the image rotates, so you can see the result without tilting your head.

These overlays are more than Elements offers (it lacks golden spiral, for example), and that program rotates the crop box instead of the image. But Elements adds some cool 'cookie cutter' crops like hearts and animal shapes, and Adobe's editors feel more responsive and precisely controllable than Corel's, probably thanks to graphics hardware acceleration.

New for crop are options in its toolbar for applying auto-fix, instant effects, and depth-of-field (aka bokeh) effects. Those are marginally useful, as you'd probably want to focus on them when you're not cropping. Old school runescape account. My favorite option on the Crop toolbar—not found in Photoshop—is the Crop as New Image choice, which instantly creates another image using the crop.

Basic Photo Correction

Though Adjust mode is gone, there's still an Adjust menu, which offers auto-correction, along with tools like a histogram with lighting and color controls. The One Step Photo Fix from this menu corrected lighting problems in many of my test photos. The Smart Photo Fix dialog gives you a lot more control. You can click a neutral spot to correct the white balance and use a Levels slider to balance a lopsided histogram.

Smart Photo Fix also shows before and after views so you can see the results of your adjustments and edits. There's also a Revert button at the bottom of the corrections panel. After all, there are certainly times when you've adjusted a photo excessively and just want to start over. Back and Forward buttons also help with this.

PaintShop's Effects menu goes leagues past the familiar Instagram choices, but it does offer Instant Effects that mimic those. The Time Machine tool lets you see how your photo would look if taken in 1839 through 1960. There are lots and lots of effects—Artistic, Film, B&W, scene lighting. Clicking on an effect, shows a preview of the selected effect side by side with your original image. If the slew of effects isn't enough for you, you can download even more.

Another gap is the lack of control over the effects. Sometimes you want to tone it down a bit, as I found with the Instant Film effect. Photoshop Elements' instant effects are indeed adjustable, but PaintShop's aren't.

Of course, you could fuss with the image using the app's other adjustments for lighting and color, but it's nice to have a slider that simply controls the effect's strength, as even Instagram does. Luckily, there are also Undo and Redo buttons, since applying effects can get messy. You can limit the disk space used by these, but otherwise, they're unlimited. The program offers Autosave, with a minimum time between saves of 15 minutes—a bit long for my taste. Another help is the big Revert button, in case things have gotten completely out of hand and you want to start over.

Advanced Photo Editing

Once you move into Edit mode, the full assortment of tools comes into play. Just as in Photoshop, you can add layers, manipulate grouped objects, and adjust curves and levels. The Curves tool is particularly powerful, allowing up to 16 control points, which let me create some crazy effects. The Retro lab makes up for Instant Effects' lack of adjustability in a big way. It lets you adjust blur, diffuse, glow, color, and more.

Two selection tools, Smart Selection and Auto Selection, are similar to Photoshop's magic wand. The first did a decent job of letting me brush to create an edge-detected selection. But the Auto Selection is more impressive. You draw a box, and the tool selects an object inside it. In my testing, this only worked with very uniform backgrounds (a clear sky, for example) and objects with well-defined edges. Still, it's a useful tool for plucking a head off and using it against a different background. In the right circumstances, it works quite well.

Content-aware object removal and moving is a fairly recent addition. This lets you improve composition by moving or removing an object within a photo, often a human, while maintaining the background. For removal, you have to select some background to replace the object with, so it's not as automatic as the equivalent tool in Adobe Photoshop Elements. The clone stamp tool shows a preview where you're about to apply it, and like all the tools and brushes, the size slider is based on your image size, which helps prevent you from getting a tiny brush when you need to make big changes, for example.

Palettes, Brushes, and Gradients

For creative types, PaintShop Pro 2019 adds more reasons not to pay Adobe monthly tributes, by adding new color palettes, brushes, gradients, and textures—10 new choices for each.

These are accessible from the Materials panel, and editable in the Materials Properties dialog. You get patterns and textures as well as gradients. And you can download more from Corel. It's at least as good as what you get with Adobe Photoshop Elements, but not quite as infinitely tweakable as Photoshop.

One cool capability that I recently discovered in PaintShop is the ability to create your own custom brush tips. I used a small image of the flag of Canada for this. Another capability that will be welcome to users of graphics design software, is the program's support for vector graphics, including SVG files (import only). You can even mix vector and raster image layers in the same file. But don't expect all the dazzling tools you get in Adobe Illustrator, such as the new Puppet Warp tool for intelligently and automatically transforming drawing proportions and positions.

Camera Raw Lab

When you start Edit mode with a raw camera file loaded, PaintShop opens the Lab interface, which is a lot like Photoshop's equivalent window. Here you can change the white balance and recover highlights, but also apply lens-profile-based corrections for chromatic aberration and vignetting. I'm not impressed with PaintShop's version of lens profile correction: I didn't see any correction of geometric distortion, and vignette correction overcompensated in some photos. Chromatic aberration wasn't removed automatically, but the program has a good tool for this in the Complete editing interface. Most lens profile correction depends on people creating the profiles, so it's not an exact science.

Another, more significant issue is that the adjustments in this part of the program are still slower than the more-effective equivalents in Lightroom. In the 2019 release, Corel has made an effort to speed up a lot of the program's most common functions and in its startup time, and it does feel more responsive overall, but I still found that it lagged in several operations in testing.

The Lab recognized raw files from my older Canon EOS 6D with a 24-105 zoom lens, but also from a new Nikon Z 7 with a 24-70mm f/4 S lens, so support is fairly up to date, though it didn't recognize a .CR3 raw file from the new Canon EOS R. For automatic chromatic aberration correction, you're much better off with Lightroom or DxO PhotoLab. When I tried it with shots from a Canon Rebel T3i, a well-established model, the automatic fixes actually made the edges of the image geometry worse, warping objects.

One thing I do prefer about PaintShop's raw processor is that it opens multiple shots in one dialog with a filmstrip along the bottom; Adobe makes you open each in a separate new window.

Extra Goodies and Imaging Tools

Pic-to-Painting. These new effects stem from the Prisma-app craze of a year ago. They use AI technology to generate art from your photos resembling that of specific painters, such a Picasso or Van Gogh. Note that this feature is free but doesn't come with the base installation—you need to download and install it (which takes several minutes)—it's easily findable on the Welcome screen. You get to Pic-to-Painting from the Plugins submenu of the Effect menu. There's a better selection of styles than you get with PhotoDirector, and you can preview them and set their strength to Low, Medium, and High. The effect is created as a layer, but your original photo layer isn't preserved. The results are impressive.

Project Templates. PaintShop's templates are a boon to nonartistic people who just need to create a card, collage, or brochure. They're really just predesigned layer groups, into which you drag your own images. The downside is that many cost a few bucks, though others are free.

Screen Capture. I usually use Snagit 10 for my screen capturing, but I'm open to options, since I feel that program's recent versions have gone off track. Corel's does let you use a hotkey and a timer delay, which I consider essential, but unlike SnagIt's, it doesn't work in the background: You have to open the program and tell it to prepare to take the screenshot. It does offer several capture styles, including one that lets you select the rectangular area you want to shoot with the mouse. I prefer a separate screenshot tool, but if you want to start editing right away, PaintShop's feature does the job.

Text Tools. Text capabilities include superscript, subscript, and justification. The nifty Paste-to-Fit option lets your text match a shape in your image. It's not quite as cool as Photoshop Elements' ability to wrap text around a curved shape in your image, however. You can hollow out text and create raster cutouts, which is a powerful effect. But for really impressive font work, PaintShop can't compete with Photoshop, which lets you mess with the actual character shapes using glyphs and apply effects like 3D extrusion.

Windows Stylus. PaintShop Pro supports Windows Real-Time Stylus (WinRTS) and (as of the 2019 version) WinTab-based devices, such as the pen that comes with the Surface line of convertible PCs. I tested this on a Surface Book, and indeed I was able to draw, complete with pressure sensitivity. You can also use the pen for any menus and settings. As mentioned, though, the interface isn't well-adapted to touchscreen input, with some inconveniently small controls.

Output and Sharing

From Edit mode's File menu, you can export to all the expected formats; JPEG, GIF, and PNG optimizers and an image slicer are useful extras for Web producers. Printing options abound, too, with CMYK separations, and standard layout presets. It even offers soft-proofing with a wide variety of printer profiles in the Color Management settings.

For Web sharing, it can open your email client and attach your image, or upload directly to Flickr and Facebook. A couple more choices like Twitter and Tumblr would be nice (Instagram, too, but that service only allows mobile uploading). One cool thing about the app's Web sharing dialog is that you can select more than one of these sites for multiple uploading. You can also choose whether to upload the full-size originals or reduced-size versions for easier transmission. A downside is that I couldn't just share to my Facebook wall or Flickr photo stream. Instead, I had to choose or create an album. And forget about syncing edits with the online album versions or viewing online comments, as you can with Photoshop Elements.

Help and tutorials for the application are worthy of mention. Unfortunately, help has moved to the web, so you can't access it if you're working offline. But it covers every feature in the app and lets you easily find the topic you're looking for. Video tutorials do a good job of showing you how to you all new features and perform popular edits, and there's a Learning Center panel that takes you through features right in the program.

A Fully Stocked Shop

Corel PaintShop Pro is a high-bang-for-the-buck Photoshop substitute. The app gets points for the sheer number of tools it throws at you, many of which acceptably mimic their Photoshop counterparts—that even goes for advanced tools like content-aware move, gradients, and effect filters. For photographers less interested in visual arts and crafts, Lightroom is a better choice, making the workflow from memory card to output smoother. And the $99 Adobe Photoshop Elements, our Editors' Choice for enthusiast photo software, offers better performance and many of Adobe's unmatched photo-manipulation tools. Pros who need Photoshop's more common tools, however, should be perfectly satisfied with this budget option.

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Bottom Line: Corel continues to add new photo-editing possibilities to its PaintShop Pro photo-editing software, making it a worthy Photoshop alternative at a value-conscious price.

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