Corel's Paint Shop Beauty

Advantages: Affordable, massive range of tools, accepts many Photoshop plugins, easy to learn
Disadvantages: It's not Photoshop.

...I've been using Paint Shop Pro since around 1998/9, when PSP5 was out. Since then, it's been through many different upgrades, and I've learnt much about photo and image editing along the way. Until version 10, or Paint Shop Pro X to give it its proper title, the software was developed and sold by Jasc. From version 10 onwards, however, it has been part of the Corel family of software, alongside the likes of Corel Draw and, of late, Winzip. From version 11 onwards, the software gained the word 'Photo' in its title, becoming Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI. It's impossible to give a review that covers absolutely everything about a product like Paint Shop Pro. Certainly, I doubt there are many people in the world who could claim to use everything it has to offer confidently enough to give a worthwhile opinion. I'll try my best...

sexyjw 06.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo IX

Advantages: less processor memary than photoshop
Disadvantages: There are never enough features!

...This software graphics product is one of the best alternatives to Adobe Photoshop CS3/ CS2. It has a similar layout and design if you are familiar with photoshop. There are many drawing features that this product has such as vector drawing, exporting images, normal shape and paintbrush tools. The product also comes equipped with features used to enhance photos by adjusting features such as brightness, contrast, grayscale, removal of red eyes etc. It also has some nice graphic based tools such as artistic effects / 3d effects / texture based tools. As with other similar products it supports the use of layers in images, swatches, transparent backgrounds, picture tubes and has a nice feature that removes backgrounds from image files. It is probably easier to use than photoshop and a great choice at a reasonable price....

serenhere 18.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI

Great program for little money

Advantages: Great price compared to others, vast amount of tools, seemless editing
Disadvantages: Adds noise involuntarily

...After getting tired of the freebies Picasa and HP Photosmart I decided it was time to get myself a more intricate photo editor. I didn't know much about photo editing at the time but our computer came with a demo of X1, which was nearly 2 years ago. I liked the demo so I thought I would go buy Corel Paint Shop Pro X2. I paid about £25 for it in total to be shipped from america on ebay. Not bad, considering that other places and shops were selling it for anything up to £40. I was expecting the CD to come in a plastic DVD case meaning there would be room for an instruction manual. It actually came in a cardboard tyvek sleeve thing, meaning no instruction manual or tips and tricks. The back of the sleeve just stated the things you can do on the program, and gave a little bit on system requirements. When loading the CD, the menu...

andrewxox 24.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

If a serious hobby photographer this is for you

Advantages: loads of features,professional feel
Disadvantages: not for the casual user or the professional, suits the serious hobbiest

...Ive used the paint shop pro series for many years and,for my use, much prefer it to the top rated 'photoshop' . Photoshop is professional standard and has every feature you can imagine but for my use, (a lot of fun photography and a little professional work) paint shop is much better suited to my needs. Like many photo and WP packages you will never use all the features, the trick is finding the ones you need and becomming familier with them. This is made easy with the quickly mastered interface used by paintshop pro. This system was developed by Jasic and only recently sold to Corel and with their large buget and expanding outlook I was expecting big things from PPXI over previous versions and there are some good ones but on the whole I actually prefer version 7 for ease of use . It seems to me Corel have realised that 'photoshop...

coppinpr 13.04.2008 · Read review
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Review of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI

Digital Photo Printing at Boots

Advantages: Quick and Easy Self Service - Quality - Professional
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest

...I have a digital camera, and keep my photos on my computer's hard-drive, but occasionally I like to get better and more interesting pictures printed, it just seems so much more natural to hold a real photo than look at it on the screen, plus it's better for showing them to people when a computer or TV isn't available, or giving photos to people who don't have a computer or DVD player. I recently therefore took a batch of my digital photos to Boots to get them printed. Boots now have self service machines for digital photos, which allow either instant, 1 hour or 24 hour printing from various sources. This can be a memory card, a photo CD, or Infra-Red direct from a compatible phone or camera. This has 2 benefits over the old over the counter method, firstly you can keep the media that the photos are on, very useful if it's your only...

C-J-C 14.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Boots - Photo Processing

Developing your photos at Tesco

Advantages: Quick and Easy
Disadvantages: Can be more expensive and you cannot pay by cash at these machines

...I have found this service quite handy as now having a digital camera i tend to forget to develop my photos, which is a shame, and trying to hand your memory card over for someone to pick out the ones you want to develp can be quite stressful, which is why i use the self service photo developing. I have found it quite an easy self explanatory experience, you insert your memory card and follow the on-line instructions, you can either have the normal 4x6 prints, the option to select all photos or certain ones, you also have the option to re-size your photos as well. When selecting your photos it tells you how much it is costing you on the screen, so no nasty suprises at the end! You then simply pay for the selected photos by card at the machine and then your photos are printed while you wait, which i think is quite quick. The only down...

kimbo1484 22.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tesco photo developing

TescoPhoto.com = Average

Advantages: Good quality photos
Disadvantages: Random Duplicates which i didnt order

...Every few months I get around 50-70 photos developed, mainly of my family, nights out, birthdays, holidays ECT. I just have a ?thing? about having lots of photos! I always have my photos developed online (I?m just too lazy to go to a shop) so a few days ago I searched on the internet for any special offers because I had 50 to print out I thought I could look around for a good deal. My mum suggested looking on the Tesco website. I hadn?t considered them before so I wasn?t sure on what their prices would be, after typing in Tesco photos I came across their site, I was welcomed with lots of special offers on the homepage ?save up to £20...?, ?free premium gloss paper on photo books?, ?40 free prints?, ?prints from 5p? are just a handful of the offers that Tesco photos had. THE REST OF THE WEBSITE Besides the special offers, the rest...

x_dani_x 12.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of TescoPhoto.com

Tesco Online Photo Processing

Advantages: Earn Clubcard points, can have it delivered to your home or nearest store.
Disadvantages: Differing advice from their customer service.

...Overall Review I didn?t use my local store when processing my photos or ordering gifts, I used the online photolab - http://www.tescophoto.com/wpp/tesco/welcome.jsp. One of the incentives to join is 10 free prints, although I?ve found a lot more online photolabs that offer you a much higher quantity of free prints. With Tesco photolab you upload your pictures into a chosen album with 200Mb free storage, you can choose which album you want to have and name each of them. You can also share your photos online but I didn?t choose to do this so don?t really know how to go about it. I am not on broadband so it took a wee while to upload each of my photos. I chose to have my order delivered to my door (You can have your photos delivered straight to your door or collect them from store, delivery details below) and had my order within...

manicstreetpreacher 21.04.2007 · Read review
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Review of Tesco photo developing

Not rated but I like it

Advantages: Very flexible and powerful, lots of extras
Disadvantages: Sometimes crashes

...A couple of years ago I spent some time trying out various graphics and photo editing packages because I was interested in doing some web site design and you really can't do anything of any worth without decent software for images and pix. The package I settled on pretty much straight away was CorelDraw 8, which came with PhotoPaint 8. I've tried out several other packages since and for a while I found Fireworks from Macromedia to be a useful tool, but I soon gravitated back to Corel and I've found it can do pretty much everything I want from such a system. It's good at manipulating photos and some of the filters, effects and other tools are first rate. I've never come across anything that I couldn't find a way to do with PhotoPaint and despite a disturbing propensity for crashing, this is my graphics package of choice. Even...

dave27 17.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Corel Photo Paint 6.0 Complete package

Sy the Photo Guy

Advantages: Superb performance from Williams
Disadvantages: Slow

...Sy Parrish develops photos at a supermarket. He's been doing it for years and his customers love him. He lives for his work. Whatever he's developing, be it family snapshots, pictures of pets or home-made porn, he does it with the precision and care of the ultimate perfectionist. Outside of work he has no friends and no family, and he lives alone in an apartment devoid of warmth and life. Except, that is, for a caged hamster and a wall completely papered with photographs of one particular family, the Yorkins. Nina Yorkin and her husband Will have a beautiful house and an adorable son, Jake. Nina documents the happy times in their lives photographically, and Sy develops the pictures, thus witnessing the family as it grows and changes. Unbeknown to the Yorkins, he always develops an extra set to put on his wall. To Sy...

sandrabarber 22.06.2003 · Read review
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