gordnanaimo wrote:
I suspect those of you who are serious about your craft have now discovered the geniuses at adobe won't ship free standing Photoshop programs anymore. It appears you have to sign up for an outrages amount of money EACH month on their eponomously named CLOUD program to use CS-6. I crashed my computer and have to find a new photo editing software. Have any of you used Corel? and if so, how does it stand up to Photoshop CS-6
gordnanaimo,
I agree with your sentiments on the "Cloud". The Cloud works well where you have a local host server to provide the hosting service, but if it is not local to you, it becomes very slow and sluggish. Perhaps people living in downtown New York, Los Angeles, Redmond, or Silicon Valley have a better than average internet connection. I have a fiber optic connection here, and 10Mb data speed, but simple connections to graphics intensive web servers is very slow and sluggish. I am in So. Calif, 60 miles N. of Los Angeles.
I also use Corel Paint Shop Pro X-4 and have considered upgrading to x-5, and maybe x-6, but the upgrades have not shown to me that the improvements are worth the upgrade cost. Now this is for a current user, and it has been very good over the years since JASC sold their flagship to Corel.
For a new user it performs all the tasks that PS (Photo Shop) performs, including Layers, and many of the tools used in PS that require setting up the Layers Pallet, are automatically set in the PSP (Paint Shop Pro) tools.
For an experienced user of PS, the tools in PSP perform all the same tasks, but may have different names and descriptions. The similarity and ease of moving from PS to PSP make the learning curve much shorter.
Finally, weather you are a seasoned user of PS, or a brand new user, you will discover PSP is much more intuitive to get the results you are looking to create. The secret of any photo editing application is getting the image capture right the first time in camera, then editing becomes a much easier task.
The
bottom lineWhen you purchase a licensed copy of Paint Shop Pro you own the application, it resides on your computer, and you can use it anywhere your computer can turn on.
Michael G