Review by Steffan Piper

I’m going to put this into bullet statements so that this is quick, easy and painless. My experience with this program was anything but.

1. This software took a ridiculous amount of time to completely install and relinquish control of my machine back to me.

2. I installed this on a nearly new machine with Windows 7 only 1 week old. This program started causing reboot problems with my machine almost immediately. Starting the program and trying use the features seem to also take forever. I was a bit afraid to try and render something or save a large file.

3. The interface looks like a slick version of Windows 3.1 (which is old, people. 1992 old) And for its lack of ability in anything but 16 bit, it seems almost fitting.

4. As technically overwhelming as Adobe Photoshop is, this program was about as intuitive as a rock and often behaved like one. I gave it a fair shot and spent several weeks going back and forth with it.

5. Freezes a lot. Crashes a lot. Lost work several times. Several of the features failed to load properly but was only apparent when I tried to use it.

6. Want to try to get a secondary manual to help you through learning the software? Guess again, there aren’t many choices at all. This isn’t a very popular photo editing product in the photography world at all.

7. It took forever to uninstall this program and it left behind so many registry keys and bloatware files that I decided to just scrub the entire windows installation as I thought this program may have actually corrupted my Windows installation. THAT hasn’t happened in years.

8. Some of the features were just ridiculous, too. Corel needs to decide if they’re trying to build a web browser or a photo editing program. They’re trying to be cool and do both, but it’s just an awful sluggish attempt at both.

Epic Fail, folks. Epic.

…