Review by Frank Z

After getting fed up with Corel’s completely mangling and ruining of PaintShop Pro and the sheer klunkiness of gimp, I decided to load up PhotoPlus X4. I was happy to find that this application has most of the commonly used editing tools: crop, resize, fill, layering, layer masks, adjustment layers, etc.. I’m going to give it some more time but my assessment right now is that it is a legitimate alternative to the overbloated PaintShop Pro with an interface that is much more usable than gimp’s.

One critique I do have is that if you lose your media there is no reasonable way to acquire a download for the version you own. I would even be open to paying a few dollars to get the media back but they do not provide this. My advise is to make multiple backups and store them in different places including the cloud so that you can restore in the even that you lose your media….