I installed PaintShop Pro on my test PC running Windows 10 Pro and sporting a Core i7 6700 CPU, 16GB RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card. After this step, the program asked me to enter an email to create an account, which only requires confirmation by responding to an automatically generated email.Ĭorel offers downloadable effect packs, too, such as ParticleShop brushes and ColorScript color effects (for $14.99 and $4.99, respectively). You have to choose whether you want 32-bit, 64-bit, or both-the last means you'll be compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit plug-ins.
You first install a small downloader program that completes the installation. PaintShop Pro runs on Windows 10 (recommended version 1903 or later with the latest Service Pack (64-bit editions).
Photoshop Elements ($99), Adobe's consumer-level photo editing software, requires no subscription, but that software has more of a hobbyist feel, as opposed to the company's pro-level offerings.
For $9.99 per month, you get both Photoshop and Lightroom, but Illustrator starts at $19.99 per month, if you prepay for a year. The one-time purchase options are a good fit for those who still resent Adobe's move to a subscription-only model for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator. This gets you all updates but no cloud storage, such as you get with Adobe's subscriptions. PaintShop Pro is available from the Microsoft Store app on a subscription basis at $7.99 per month. You'll need Ultra to get the AI HDR Studio and Sea-to-Sky Workspace (see below), PhotoMirage animation, and more brushes. The Ultimate edition ($99.99, $79.99 upgrade) throws in more software-AfterShot (Corel's photo workflow app for importing and organizing digital photos), Corel Painter Essentials, PhotoMirage Express (converts still shots to animations) and more brushes and backgrounds.
PaintShop Pro 2022 is available directly from Corel or via retail for $79.99 (or $59.99 as an upgrade from any previous version) it's frequently discounted. If you're a Windows user who's not committed to the Adobe ecosystem, PaintShop Pro is a worthy alternative, especially given its low cost. Likewise, while PaintShop Pro's interface has improved greatly over the years, it's still not quite as polished and unified as Photoshop's. PaintShop Pro's Performance is faster than in earlier versions, but in some photo editing operations it lags Photoshop. You miss out on some of the Adobe flagship photo editor's most advanced tools, however, including 3D modeling, detailed typography, and face liquefy. PaintShop Pro supports layers and lets you edit both raster and vector image formats-something you'd need two of Adobe's Creative Cloud apps to do. It uses both European and American measurements, along with allowing you to set custom sizes, so it can be used by all of our ‘worldly’ photographers.Photoshop is a magnificent tool, but many of its users could do everything they need to in Corel's photo editing software, PaintShop Pro, without having to pay a monthly tribute to Adobe.
When you open up FotoCrop II, it will ask you to name the size you want to crop to and figures the appropriate selection ratio. Open FotoCrop II from your programs list. It is wonderfully simple and fast to use!!
I will briefly describe how to use this program and you can go to the website listed above for more details.
It is a program that is called FotoCrop II and can be found and downloaded at While trying to solve this problem with Paint Shop Pro 7, I ran across this freeware program that runs in PSP, so that I didn’t’ have to size an image in Thumbs Plus then finish the editing in PSP. One of my major complaints with PSP is the lack of a cropping feature that would size your images precisely to a set ratio such as 5*7 or 8*10 inches for framed photos. I have been a user of Paint Shop Pro long before I ever thought of owning a digital camera, likely before I ever heard of digital cameras! Due to the fact that all my extra money seems to go to my cameras and accessories, I hope to continue to use PSP for a long time and not invest hundreds of dollars in other programs that only duplicate most of the features I use in PSP. Adding Constrained Ratio Selection to Paint Shop Pro to Print Photos in Standard Sizes