Review by Memly

I used to work in the advertising industry but now I’m a mom. I can’t justify paying the Adobe subscription for Photoshop but I really wanted something powerful at home (other than Paint and Picasa) to edit photos I take of my kids/family. I never used to have to think about it. I would just stay after work and use my work computer to edit personal photos before but now that is not an option, I need something I can run on my home computer.

Enter… Corel PaintShop Pro. Quick install. Lighter and starts up faster than Photoshop but still has all the photo editing functions and capabilities I want. The software interface is different from Photoshop obviously, but if you have any experience at all with photo editing software, its not really that hard to figure out how to use the editing functions (edit, layers, color correction, effects, compression, etc. I’m still more used to Photoshop and am learning PaintShop slowly since I only use it occasionally to edit family photos. But the best thing about Corel PaintShop is you buy it once, install it and you have it forever. No need to keep shelling out $$$ for Adobe subscriptions.