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Corel Paint Shop Pro 9

4 stars (I was amazed what I could do with this product) - I have no background in graphics or art and the extent of my PC graphics experience stopped at MS Paint. I found myself in a situation where I needed some graphics done but didn't have budget to get them done professionally. So I purchased PSP and had a go. I was amazed at what I could produce in such a short period of time. Within a few hours I was applying fading effects to images and making montages out of several images. Very cool. I did find the product a challenge to use though. A big part of the problem was that I didn't know the terminology. I would think of an effect I wanted to do, like "fade", but wouldn't know the correct terminology to search for e.g. "mask". But if you are a little more patient than me (not hard) then this shouldn't be a problem. The help is pretty good but I found that more often I used some of the many PSP "how to" web sites out there. There are lots of good sites out there if you are in a hurry. The program also seems to be a bit slow to load but I'm not sure how this compares to other graphics programs. Overall, I'm very impressed with PSP and consider it a great bargain. 5 stars (PSP is great!) - I have never had the full version, but I have had a trial. I've also had a photoshop trial, but I find that psp is much faster to learn and is easier to use. With photoshop, however, I believe it is sometimes slow. I do think that paint shop pro is a great program to use than photoshop. Sure, photoshop has a few extra things psp doesn't, but some of you may not use it. so psp is the best program I can recommend. MSPaint is another great program, but you can always edit those images made on there in psp! :) 4 stars (Great program) - Love computers and love photography and this program is at a good price with some pretty high tech tools. It is amazing what can be done with an even average photograph. Now looking to go to a higher end Canon digital 20D because of the ...
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Paint Shop Photo Album 5 Deluxe Old Version

2 stars (Non-Existent technical support) - I replaced my computer and reinstalled PSPA5 deluxe which I'd bought from Amazon last year. I received several error messages during the installation but the program worked. I tried to install the downloaded upgrade but got an error message that my version was not valid. Corel recently bought Jasc so I went to their site and, rather than pay per incident for tech support, I described the problem and asked for help which was free and promised the next business day. After two weeks with no reply. I sent them another e-mail and waited another week with no reply. I then sent them a fax, on the belief that my ISP might be blocking their reply, and asked for a faxed response or snail mail help. NOTHING! Spending real money for PSPA 5 apparently buys you a decent program and being totally ignored by Jasc's new owners, Corel. I gave the program a low rating because I believe that prompt e-mail support is an essential part of the cost of the program. I uninstalled PSPA 5 and will buy nothing new from JASC/COREL. Picasa 2 from Google works well and is free. 3 stars (Decent but could be so much better with attention to details) - Some of the other reviewers have here have spelled out where the program works well so you can consider this the CONS review. 1. The biggest complaint is speed. Opening, editing and building thumbnails are all agonizingly slow. My pictures are stored on a server in my home so there is some understandable delay. But I also use Paint Shop Pro 6 (PSP6) which builds thumbnails faster that I can see them and opens and edits pictures far faster. My wife gets so frustrated with PSPA5s slow speed that she ends up opening and editing in PSP6 and then I loose all EXIF data. Last night added a new folder of about 45 images and it took at least 3 minutes to build all the thumbnails. 2. The next thing is opening folders. PSPA5 calls folders albums. This is a nice idea but is it really necessary to take a thing we all k...
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Corel Paint Shop Pro 9 Old Version

5 stars (Paint shop 9) - Excellent service. Very well pleased. Quick shipment. Product in great shape. Thanks, Debbie 5 stars (Paint Shop Pro RULES!) - Hi, my internet nickname is StoryMaker and you can call me that. Anyways, PSP9 RULES! I saw on lots of websites "I've edited this with Paint Shop Pro!" and such. I wanted PSP. One christmas I got PSP. It has lots of different brushes and there's tons of cool effects! I still use Paint (the picture editing program that comes with Windows) a lot, but when it's time for some fun, it's time for Paint Shop Pro! (And it's VERY fun!) It even comes with Animation Shop 3 so you can make cool animations and even mini movies! I recommend buying it! Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!" 5 stars (Excellent for (most) photography work) - I use this exclusively for photography. I have found it to be MUCH faster that Photoshop for EVERY photo manipulation I have ever tried. Much easier to learn than Photoshop. In my view, Photoshop is more of a tool for graphic designers, and not for photographers. Not to say you can't do graphic design with Paint Shop, I just don't use it for that. The only drawbacks I have found for digital photography work are: 1. Does not support 16 bit images (necessary for the highest commercial, advertising quality photo work) 2. Does not support A FEW select photography Plug-Ins that are available only for Photoshop. However, MOST plug ins will work with it, and the few that don't have comparable competitors that do work in Paint SHop. I love this program, and have now removed Photoshop from my computer for the sake of simplicity keeping only Paint Shop. Hopefully subsequent versions WILL support 16 bit images which is currently the only real drawback to this fine software product. ...
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