Library management is elegant and sophisticated, with the ability to filter by multiple metadata such as date, lens model, keyword and star rating. It's not quite a match for Lightroom but it comes close. Corel AfterShot 2 is a powerful photo-management and RAW-processing application. One of these modules is much more than substantial than the usual lightweight extras. Corel needed to hit back with something special to avoid being relegated to third place.Īs usual, there's a standard version of PaintShop Pro X8 (£60) and an Ultimate version (£80) with various additional modules. It’s a much more appealing prospect than upgrading PaintShop Pro or Photoshop Elements for around £50 each year. That something turned out to be Adobe Creative Cloud Photography Plan, which for £103 a year provides our two favourite image-editing applications, Photoshop CC and Lightroom. Neither application has progressed much in recent years, so it was only a matter of time before something came along to usurp them both. There's plenty to admire but it couldn't match the attention to detail and performance of Adobe Photoshop Elements. We particularly liked the Refine Brush tool which made it incredibly easy to create complex selections.PaintShop Pro has a long history of coming second in our reviews. It hasn’t got all the features that Photoshop enjoys, but then again, it doesn't cost nearly as much, and the tools it does have, especially the ones in this update are most impressive.
Final verdictĪll in all, Corel Paintshop Pro 2020 is a solid piece of software, which allows you to improve photographs and create complex composites with ease. This isn’t a complaint specific to Corel, but to any publisher who does this. It’s just hard to swallow, having paid good money for an app, to be confronted with a pay wall to gain access to more content. Sadly there are precious few add ons that are free, but the brushes are mostly cheap enough to give them a try. New brushes and palettes have also been introduced, but not all are bundled into the app by default - in order to get them, you need to access Corel’s online store (which you can do from Paintshop Pro’s welcome screen), and see everything that’s available - for a price. The built-in online store gives you access to additional content - for a price (Image credit: Corel)
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