Paint Shop Pro has long been a staple for beginner and even advanced photo editors and designers who don’t want to fork out hundreds of dollars for a program with features they won’t use. While having the latest and greatest version of Photoshop may make you sound informed and knowledgeable, the reality is many graphic designers could get by with a cheaper yet nearly as powerful program like Paint Shop Pro X2.
Paint Shop Pro X2 is the latest photo editing suite from Corel, and it will fill the needs of novices and experts alike, and earns our "TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award" for photo editing software. With its deep Help System and clear interface, Paint Shop Pro X2 gets the job done better than most, and for a more reasonable price. If you are looking for a Photo Editor that satisfies the needs of most without breaking the bank look no farther.
With Paint Shop Pro X2, we’ve conducted our usual in-depth review, and in addition we’ve made some quick tutorials and taken dozens of screenshots to peruse. Sometimes it’s difficult to get a real handle on how a program works until you see how it is used. So if the reading becomes too laborious and nebulous, take a peek at the screenshots and tutorials.
Should you have trouble deciding which program is for you, refer to the side-by-side comparisons, and our reviews of Adobe’s Photoshop Elements and Serif’s PhotoPlus X3; both of which are viable alternatives to Paint Shop Pro X2. Adobe even has the ultimate in professional graphics editing solutions in Photoshop CS3, if you decide you need more than these programs feature.
Paint Shop Pro X2 is incredibly easy to use. You hear nearly every manufacturer of any software type make this claim, but Paint Shop Pro X2 backs up the claim with superb usability. The toolbar has become fairly standard over the years, with most manufacturers taking cues from Adobe, and we believe this is a good thing as most photo editing programs come to have a familiar layout and tool set. Paint Shop Pro X2’s toolbar is standard with buttons for selecting, outlining, cropping, cloning, erasing, filling, painting, and text entry.
For those unfamiliar with these tools and concepts, Paint Shop Pro X2 has a conveniently placed Learning Center on the left side of the window pane that teaches and shows how to adjust, retouch, and add effects, text, and graphics to your pictures.
Not only can Paint Shop Pro X2 import pictures from your scanner, hard drive, or CD/DVD; but you can download pictures directly from most cameras and memory cards. There is also a built-in screenshot capture feature. Make fast work of standard edits in the Express Lab where you can crop, rotate, straighten, remove red eye for an entire imported folder.
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