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Corel just released, the latest version of its image editing and graphic design software suite. For this latest version, the Corel engineers have managed to reduce launch times and create a simplified graphical user interface with a new Dual Workspace Environment. There are also customizable tool bars and a number of improved editing tools, including Crop, Text, Selection, Clone Brush, Gradient Fill, Eraser and the Dropper tool. In addition PaintShop Pro 2018 gets you ten new color palettes, thirty new brushes, thirty new gradients, thirty new textures and fifteen new patterns. If you decide to opt for the Ultimate edition you'll also have access to a collection of add-ons including Painter Essentials 5, Perfectly Clear 3 SE and After Shot 3. PaintShop Pro 2018 Makes Advanced Photo Editing More Accessible and Affordable Than Ever Dramatically redesigned interface, accelerated performance, enhanced tools, and loads of all-new creative content jump-start your creative projects Ottawa, Ontario – Aug. 9, 2017 Corel introduces, the complete photo editing and graphic design suite that offers more speed, flexibility, and creativity than ever before.
Enhance your editing experience with a redesigned and customizable user interface that's now friendlier with high-resolution displays and pen and touch devices. Start and finish your next project faster thanks to improved performance under the hood - and express your creativity with more than 125 pieces of exciting new content including brushes, gradients, textures, and patterns. 'Whether you're looking for professional photo editing power or just getting started, you need software that lets you jump in and be productive right away. PaintShop Pro now lets you choose from two unique interfaces, plus it gives you the ability to customize them to build an editing and design environment that's uniquely your own,' said Chris Pierce, Product Manager for Corel Photo. 'With PaintShop Pro 2018, we're delivering a dramatically faster, easier, and highly creative experience that's even more accessible and of course, still subscription free.' The new and boost productivity with user-requested enhancements and spark creativity with all-new content, including:. NEW!
Dual Workspace Environment: Introducing two new workspaces designed to match the way you work! New to photo editing or looking to focus on a core set of tools? Try the new Essentials workspace for an easy-to-use, streamlined look. Or, if you're a PaintShop Pro expert, switch to the Complete workspace for a more traditional experience that offers access to the software's complete editing and design capabilities. Simplified, Touch & Pen-Friendly Interface: Now get more control over features, functionality, and customization. Node size not right?
Scroll bar too small? Make it bigger. New larger icons now make it easy to work on touchscreens, 2-in-1 devices, and high-DPI monitors.
Faster Launch Time & Performance: Time is precious and whether you're launching a program or performing a specific action, no one likes to wait around. PaintShop Pro 2018 launches more than 50% faster than the previous version (X9), while the software's most popular tools now respond with near-instant results. Text Wrapping is faster and Depth of Field adjustments can be achieved 4 times quicker than before. Customizable Toolbars: Be more productive with larger, easier-to-see icons and use the new Quick Customize feature to update your toolbars with the tools you want at your fingertips. Color Palettes, Brushes & More Creative Content: Choose from a selection of complementary hues with 10 new Color Palettes, apply artistic strokes with 30 new Brushes, and get creative with 30 new Gradients, 30 new Textures, and 15 new Patterns. Choose PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate, the comprehensive editing kit for photographers, and also receive a collection of add-ons worth more than $250 including:. NEW!
Painter® Essentials™ 5: Get photo-painting tools that easily transform your pictures into impressive art right before your eyes. Or start sketching, drawing, and painting from scratch using Natural-Media® brushes. Perfectly Clear 3 SE: Restore details, color, and other elements lost by your camera with the proven, patented corrections. Create a custom look with robust, time-saving presets that let you control multiple adjustments with just one click - all without leaving PaintShop Pro. AfterShot™ 3: With the addition of AfterShot, get a one-two punch to rival Adobe's Creative Cloud photography subscription, only without the monthly fee - including, digital asset management, RAW conversion, and adjustment. Take advantage of non-destructive editing that preserves your original, whether you edit one version of your photo or 100. Photo Video Bundle Delivers a Complete Editing Package Also introduced today, the Photo Video Bundle brings together PaintShop Pro 2018 and VideoStudio® Pro X10 for a complete photo, design, and video editing package to help tell your story.
For more information on the Corel Photo Video Bundle, visit us at. Pricing and Availability PaintShop Pro 2018 and PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate are available now in English, German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese. Suggested retail pricing (SRP) for PaintShop Pro 2018 is $79.99 (USD/CAN) / EUR 69.99 / £69.99 / $99 AUD.
SRP for PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate is $99.99 (USD/CAN) / EUR 89.99 / £89.99/ $129 AUD. SRP for PaintShop Pro 2018 and Video Studio X10 bundle is $159.99 (USD/CAN) / EUR 139.99 / £139.99/ $199 AUD.
All European pricing includes VAT. Upgrade pricing is available to registered users of all previous versions of PaintShop Pro. For more information or to download a free 30-day trial, please visit. To discover how you can bring the power of PaintShop Pro to your business and learn more about volume licensing for commercial or education-based organizations, please visit. Even though I use Photoshop CC, I still keep around a copy of PSP 4.12 (1997) because of the easier method of cloning. In PSP, you simply right-click-release to set the source point. In Photoshop you have to hold down the mouse and ALT at the same time to pick the clone source.
Also, the cloning logic is better. In PSP, when the source point reaches the newly cloned area, it now picks that up and allows you to clone continuously in one motion. In Photoshop, when the source point reaches the point where the clone was laid down, it instead ignores it, and picks up the original area that you wanted to be covered up.
This means I have to stop and start to lay down the clone in multiple patches. This might be default behavior which I haven't figured how to change.
Last week I got an invitation to join a webinar to learn all the new stuff which was in PSP 2018 (I just have upgraded to PSP 9) and I was so disappointed! There is very little in new features which can tempt me.
Perhaps the speed at which it launches has improved, but to verify that I would need to benchmark the software. Quite honestly I will stay with PSP9 for the time being. The webinar did not convince me.
PS: I also use PSE – especially for printing and organising my photos. And - I admit – I quite like their autosharpening tool which works well on standard web-published pictures. I use Corel products! We've got Coreldraw/Photopaint, Video Studio, etc.
I LOOOVE the Corel Software because It allows me to KEEP the software as-is and not have to be on the STUPID monthly licencing scheme that Adobe keep trying to push on us! And since we shoot on everything from Red Weapon 8k, Arri-65, Panavision 8K DXL, Canon C700/C500/300/1Dc I would say we are 'Professional' even if we use Corel Video and Paint Products! We downsample the 8K footage to 4K using a Lanczos-5 resizer anyways into CineForm FilmScan format so we can edit the footage easily and I can tell you that our editor LOVES the CorelVideo Studio software! We've Used Avid, Adobe, HeavyWorks, Discreet Inferno/Flame, so WE REALLY KNOW VIDEO and VFX so in my opinion Corel VideoStudio works JUST fine for editing/VFX of 4K 4096x2160 60fps video footage! You MUST HAVE GREAT graphics card like an NVIDIA Titan 1070 or an AMD R9 Fury-X with 8 gigabytes (around $800 US) to edit 4K footage on a single 4k display. My impression is that Aftershot is vastly inferior to Lightroom/ACR in terms of RAW editing. However if you have Lightroom standalone or some other RAW processor, Paintshop Pro is potentially a viable alternative for people who don't want an Adobe subscription.
Lightroom can send TIFFs to Paintshop Pro, and Paintshop Pro is a step up on Elements, as it supports 16 bit layers, and scripting/macros like full Photoshop. Photoshop can still do more than Paintshop Pro, but not everyone may need everything that Photoshop offers, and plugins like Nik, Topaz, On1 etc work with Paintshop Pro. Has anyone used both Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 (either standard or Ultimate) and Serif's Affinity Photo- so we can have a comparison? For what it's worth - I have used Adobe Photoshop many years ago - and yes, found it a great tool. However having recently bought Serif's Affinity Photo (for Windows) - a bit over half a year ago, and I also find that a great tool. Both Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo have their quirks and nuances, but I have become comfortable with Affinity Photo. And really find it powerful and now quite intuitive.
I am just interested how Corel PaintShop Pro stacks up and compares? If there is ever an issue / reason that I can't use Affinity Photo, then it's good to know what other options are out there. Yes, you probably guessed it - I really dislike the 'cloud subscription' / 'software rental' business model. I love owning my own software (and hardware for that matter!) Cheers. I look forward to the responses / comparisons / feedback.
Thanks Bobthearch. Really appreciate you taking the time to reply here. That's helpful. I'm really quite happy with Affinity Photo. As I wrote before, I have used an older version of Photoshop for a few years (many years ago). And briefly looked at Adobe's Creative Cloud - but I'm very happy with Affinity Photo. But if there were ever a reason to change (e.g.
Compatibility issues - though having said that, I don't plan to change cameras in a hurry, I'm very happy with my 80D, 7D and 700D). Or if Serif / Affinity decide to move to a subscription / cloud environment, (so far it seems they won't. At least for quite a while at least, I'm hoping never!). But in the eventuality it would, I like to know what other options there are out there. So far, I'm glad to hear that a number of other users that I've talked to / chatted with, and other responses else indicate most people say Affinity Photo is really good in terms of functionality and power.
Cheers / thanks again! I made the huge mistake of buying PSP Pro Ultimate X7 a couple of years ago. It turned out to be over complicated, clumsy and offered no improvement in capability over PSP Pro X2. After an update, I was constantly nagged to upgrade to the next version and ended up uninstalling the package as I just couldn't put up with this nonsense. What also annoyed me was the very poor system of vertical correction and distortion control that was excellent on PSP versions like Pro 8, but was dropped for no obvious reason. Corel just seem to have a moment of madness when they took it out and replaced it with a third rate substitute, for no obvious reason.
As I have no expectation of Corel having made the kind of improvements I want for doing serious work on photographs, I don't think I need this new release, even if they want to give it to me for free. Prognathous - I have used Corel and Adobe for many years. At one time, there were significant improvements to everyone's software. Now I see things on recent PSP editions that are simply there for the sake of it.
PSP X8 does very little better than X2 and it's simply more cluttered and gimmicky - IMHO. I don't doubt there are certain things on 2018 that will be judged as considerable improvements by Corel and some users, but I can see nothing that is likely to encourage me to start using it and I really don't think Corel are listening to users too often. They are pre-occupied with the appearance of their products rather than good solid features, and often simplicity that provides good results is more useful than having something that looks like the control panel from a space shuttle. Well, i can honestly say, that i was PSP (Paint Shop Pro) User since Version 1.0, for real.when it was a very small, little Shareware Tool. I've used it with Windows 3.0a back then.:-) For many years, i haven't had an alternative Software, and JASC was way okay - so i sticked with it. I've 1st looked into PS (Photoshop) when it was at Version 3.0, but knowing it much earlier.the coming years, i've looked at PS here & there at friends, coworkers, etc.but found the GUI too complicated.
Finally, i've went the PSP Route p to X2 12.50, whileas having used PS on my own since CS4, CS5, and currently since years stick with CS6, because it does all i ever wanted. I have tried many alternatives, but always coming back to PS, because there is no alternative for me. I dislike the PSP GUI since some iterations, and somehow feel too limited by it's GUI and RAW capabilities. To each their own, what suits one best.