Corel Paint Shop review

Corel Paint Shop occupies the first place in image editing in our top. Paint Shop Pro X2 may not be as complete and developed as other programs, but it has been preferred by many graphic designers to applications like Photoshop, Adobe’s Photoshop Elements or Serif’s PhotoPlus X3, mainly because it is cheaper but at the same time functional and efficient in terms of photo editing software.
The program Paint Shop Pro X2 has been recently launched by Corel and has a complete Help System and clear interface.

How to Use

It this this simple interface that makes Paint Shop Pro X2 a program easy to use. The standard toolbar has buttons that can be used to select, outline, drop, erase, fill, paint and entry texts. If you find it difficult process all this new information about photo editing software, Paint Shop Pro X2 offers help in the form of a Learning Center that is located on the left side of the window pane.

Paint Shop Pro X2 is able to import files and pictures from CDs/DVDs, hard drives, scanners, cameras and memory cards. With the help of the Express Lab, the user can work with entire imported folders, cropping, rotating or changing them. Photos can be edited with the help of Paint Shop Pro X2: red eyes can be removed; details referring to color, brightness and contrast can be adjusted or improved. The advantage is that the feature called Smart Photo Fix enables the user to adjust manually the details referring to color, brightness, sharpness, black and white levels and contrast until you get the effect you want. There are other features that help you get the result you want and the Enhance Photo tool set has a series of features that help you get the result you want: One Step Noise Removal eliminates the pixels that give the impression of image compression; the Color Balance editor enable the user to change the color temperature; the Clarify tool focuses on the image in order to adjusts brightness and bring out details in images and the High Pass Sharpen can increase the contrast of pixels so that images would lose the blur.

Corel Paint Shop - Additional Features

The photo organizer that comes with Paint Shop Pro X2 is places at the bottom of the window which means you need not keep the Internet browser software always open.
The photo editing software helps you transform pictures in almost any way you want: teeth can be whitened, tans can be added, backgrounds can be erased or changed so the various details would be brought out; you can be retro and use the Time Machine to make photos look really old.
The resulted photos can be also sent by email or uploaded to online photo sharing sites.
Paint Shop Pro X2 also has efficient organizing functions: keyword assignments can be dragged and dropped.
In terms of output, Paint Shop Pro X2 helps you if you want to slice images for html use. The software includes a JPG and PNG optimizer for web graphics.

Help and Support Team

The Learning Center located on the left side of the window pane gives you useful information on how to use the program. While you are working, this feature displays the information you need.
Online help in the forms of forums, emails for customer support and technical support by phone are offered to the user.

Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 - Conclusions

Paint Shop Pro X2 is one of the most efficient programs of photo editing software. It has professional and useful features that will help you transform pictures in a way that you have always dream about.