Review by H. Wang

PaintShop Photo Express 2010 is Corel’s entry level photo organizer. It’s easy to use and has an elegant interface.

The quick fix feature is a one-touch photo correction tool that amateurs like. One click and the picture is ready to post or print. Corel’s quick fix is remarkably good for most photos.

You can also fine tune the brightness, highlights, shadows, and sharpness manually or have the program suggest settings and then tweak them as you desire. What is missing here (and in Picasa) is true adjustment of color.

On the first time use, it scans EVERY image on the drives. You couldn’t stop it! You have to wait for the program to finish. This is no good, but not terrible.

In general, this software is pretty light on features and heavy demand on computer resources. For example, you can not resize or sharpen an image. And you can not change white balance/color cast, color space or printer profiles.

The terrible part, as others have pointed out…this software OVERWRITES the original pictures without WARNING. I think this is a big design flaw.

All in all, this is a pretty basic photo program that does a little of everything and is geared towards newbies.