Review by Bass Cadet

This is not Adobe Photoshop and that is a good thing. Overall, I like this software. It has most of the power of Adobe Photoshop without the high cost. The learning curve is also less steep.

I mostly use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to catalog, touchup, and print my photos. Every once in a while, I need to perform more extensive editing and printing. For these times, I prefer to use Corel Paintshop Photo instead of Adobe Photoshop (Elements). Paintshop is easier to use and as effective for my image processing needs.

The 64-bit version loads relatively quickly. At least on my machine, it does not bring the system to a near halt like Lightroom. It does consume a lot of CPU resources when processing a photo, say during a One-Step Photo Fix operation, but other programs can still be used.