PaintShop Photo Pro

Seems pretty good from what I've used. Simple and easy to learn interface too.

Not bad! I have version 8 and it's pretty simple.

Better and faster than PS.

takes very time to start but it's very useful

I tried X3 to see how things have improved over version 10 that I've been using for years. X3 was at first nice but I've been having issues with it. Despite being updated to service pack 2 so far, it is still buggy and crashes once in a while. The crop tool was annoying to use; sometimes I'm a pixel off and the bottom toolbar of the selection gets in the way. There's a selection bug that erases a bottom portion of the picture when I paste as new selection. When I copy and paste from X3 to iTunes, the album art looks garbled. When I resize an image it bugs me that the size selections go to inches first rather than pixels as in version X. I always use tabbed documents view and when I go to the organizer and then back, it goes to the default windowed mode. I hate the organizer; it's not as simple and elegant as PSPX's browser. I can't get over the fact by default CTRL+SHIFT+V is the shortcut for paste as new image rather than CTRL+V.

After two months of use I uninstalled it and went back to version X.

I have used Paint Shop Pro (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Paint_Shop_Pro) since the beginning (it was released in the period 1990-1992) and I currently have version 7 (released in the year 2000) installed. What PSP7 particularly has that I needed years ago is the ability via inter alia the "threshold" menu command ("Schwellenwert" in my German-language version) to reduce images to outlines. I have seen nothing in Corel descriptions of newer versions to make me buy newer upgrades. A full Adobe Photoshop version costs about $1000 and appears to be a real rip-off for that totally inflated price. I have looked at the cheaper Photoshop Elements and the program is no match for PSP7.

very good graphic edit program . Support Finnish language . Good translation .

+ simple
+ lots of function
+ Finnish language

- cost
- takes time to start

A great program that I've been using for many years. It's easier to navigate than photoshop, fireworks, and many of the others when you just need to accomplish basic graphic editing / creation.

Overall, Paint Shop Pro is awesome. It's way more easier to use then Photoshop and it does the same things. Way more cheaper then Photoshop too. I love it. <3

Really like using this, I'm more accustomed to this than Photoshop.

I'm no longer windoze, and when I was I used PSP 9. It was expensive, very expensive, but it was also very good at what it did. My experience is limited to PSP 9.0.

Corel acquired PSP from Jasc Software and quickly released PSP X. Luckily, the rush to market prevented Corel from completely ruining things, but they did manage to come close with the release of PSP XI, which was buggy and attempted too many UI "improvements" at the expense of functionality. Photoshop, I hate to admit, is now a superior program overall but is still clunkier to use, rougher on system resources, and highly overrated by its adherents. Moreover, some PSP X image processing functions are better than Photoshop - among them, resizing and noise reduction. Sadly, there aren't many choices when it comes to image editors that offer good photo processing, layers, and vector graphics.

I wonder why there are so many Photoshop home users out there who use illegal copies while PSP does almost the same stuff, is less sluggish and way cheaper. I've been using it since version 5. Of course I could also live with GIMP or Paint.net, but why should I? :-)

Although Corel added some bad GUI touch, PSP is still one of my all-time favorites in image editing.

The graphic app I started with and still use quite often

It's much more easy to use than Photoshop.