Review by John D Hillmer

Im comparing Corel PaintShop Pro X7 (64bit) to the tool I use most, Adobe Photoshop CS6 (64 Bit) both products running on Windows 7 64bit. The first thing to point out, is that the Corel product is 1/10th the cost, and the Adobe product is now more regularly licensed as a subscription based product (a fee per month or per year per user).

The comparison boils down to, you get what you pay for.

Adobe offers many more options especially if you need to edit raw files, in which case you can manipulate and save (correct) a poorly taken picture much more easily with Adobes product than you can with the Corel product.

But for smart auto corrections, for all the basic editing that most people would want to do, this program has it, and I found that it worked just fine. The down side is that you still need to learn this program, and if you have not already learned a photo editing program, Id recommend you go with one of the more basic Adobe photo editing programs, Photoshop Elements, because at least then you are learning a program than many (most) others will know, and in the event you decide to step up to a more sophisticated (expensive) Photoshop program someday, your learning’s can just be added to, rather than started all over.