Review by Centriculous

QUICK SUMMARY: Full-featured image and photo editing software for the budget-minded.

BACKGROUND: I’ve used Paint Shop Pro for years. In fact, I began using PSP back in the days of Compuserve when I could download a few shareware programs and my employer paid for any that I wanted to keep. I’m not a graphics artist, but when I need to do any kind of image editing, I can usually find my way around in PSP to do what I need to do.

WHAT I LIKE:nn- Installed easily, boots up without issuesn- Seems speedy for the amateur that I amn- Has a full set of functions and featuresnnWHAT COULD BE BETTERnnIn the old days, making a simple web graphic was easy to do. PSP is so sophisticated now as a Photoshop replacement, it’s sometimes not easy to create a simple graphic. I wish that there were a rich set of wizard functions that would start with a goal in mind, and then have the wizard walk through all the steps involved. Sometimes I have a simple goal in mind, but it’s hard to know where to begin.

CONCLUSION: An affordable, stable (for me!) version of PSP so far.