Review by Stephen714

Paint Shop Pro used to be an easier to use Photoshop type program that was comprehensive and yet understandable. Slowly, with every release since Corel took the program from Jasc, the program has gone downhill. They remove necessary features and add unecessary features. NO manuals, no support, just a useless program. DO NOT BUY OR INSTALL THIS PROGRAM AS IT IS ENTIRELY USELESS!nUPDATE TO ABOVE REVIEW: I have persevered with the program and it only gets worse. It is now June 1, 2010 and Corel still has made no attempt to fix the project creator part of the program which STILL does not work at all. There is NO excuse for this. It is clear Corel does not care one bit for it’s users and is interested in making money on a program, whether it works or not. The new text tool could work if there was a user manual or the help files explained it properly. As it is, the only way to apply text is by trial and error, a very frustrating experience. I have been using this program since version 8 and it seems that they have gone out of their way to make it worse. There is a project part of the program but there is no way to get photos into the project workspace. It just doesn’t function. I wrote to Corel about this and they said they know it’s a problem. So it seems I’ve paid for a program they know doesn’t work and have been really shafted by Corel. The program is very new and already there is an update that so far fixes nothing. What’s wrong with a company that releases software that doesn’t work and needs patches within weeks of release. The saddest part is that Paint Shop Pro used to be a terrific program.