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Review by Nolan Lewis
Corel Paintshop Photo Express is marketed as another alternative that lets you edit your personal photos on your computer without having to go to a professional editing place to do so. It’s a little easier to use than Photoshop and the average computer user shouldn’t have much of a problem navigating the software. It does some of the basics that Photoshop can do and gets done what’s needed in most photo edits like red eye reduction, adjusting lighting, and eliminating defects in non digital photos etc. However, the software has some flaws that cannot be overlooked. When saving, the software does not make it clear that the picture you are editing will overwrite the original file. If you don’t have a backup the changes the user made will be permanent. It’s also slow at times and has a few stability issues in Windows 7 which will most likely be dealt with by patches and updates. Hopefully Corel will listen and fix a few of these problems the users face in order to make the software a little less annoying. It’s decent but the software needs to work out a few bugs before it’s more suitable for use otherwise stick to a more polished software like Photoshop Elements or CS4. The time it takes for the beginner to learn the features of Adobe’s Photoshop software might be more worth your time and money.