Review by 12XU

It’s a strange world. Despite being what most lay-people would think is the also-ran to Adobe products, Corel has apparently decided that doing the right thing by customers is simply not important.

I’m speaking, of course, about the Protexis Licensing service that they install, without user knowledge, that runs as a service in the background. This is the service they use to prevent piracy, and without it you cannot run the program. Further, as others have pointed out, the user agreement is draconian.

It’s too bad - the software is a nice alternative to Photoshop Elements, and if they were a more customer-centric company I think they’d win converts.

As it stands though, with the EULA and spyware they install, this is unusable to me. As an aside, I did try to use X4 when it came out, and was unable to get it to install on ANY of the three machines at my house.

Corel: if you want customers, deal with the poor coding, the invasive EULA, the horrible Protexis module, and start acting like you care about people that buy your products. Until then, I don’t see you getting out of the one-star basement.