Review by Whozis

I was forced to order Corel PaintShop Pro X4 when I reinstalled X2, and found out that Corel would not support it with necessary updates. A strike against Corel, as far as I am concerned.

I had a little difficulty with the new layout using tabs, but once I sorted through that and got used to it, I was able to do photo editing much as I had done on X2.

X4 does seem to load more quickly, but it sometimes freezes up on my HP 64 bit laptop running Windows 7 SP1, with 4 GB RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.20 GHz. This is disappointing to me, as other programs run with no problem. I might add that X2 was also freezing up, and that was why that I had tried to reinstall it.

So far, I am satisfied with the overall performance of X4 for the things that I do. I have not tried any of the new features as of 02-22-2012.