Review by Christina Paul

I have been a Paintshop Pro user for nearly 18 years and have used it almost exclusively, even though I am also fairly proficient with Photoshop. I have to confess, I was pretty nervous about giving up my old JASC Version of PSP (PSP 7) I am happy to say that it Corel has been very true to the old program and added some improvements. There are cool ways to do colour corrections and enhancing photos that I had not used before in earlier JASC versions of PSP. It now has the capabilities for mapping, face tagging and one click photo manipulations that were not available in earlier versions.

The Paintshop Pro product has always been a more affordable version of other similar, higher end programs such as Adobes flagship program in its Creative Suite, Photoshop. The learning curve for this program is fairly low and the instructions and tutorials both available with the program and online make it an easy program to work with.