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Software Paint Shop Pro Photo X2

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- About the Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
This software I bought from Amazon with a reason price and of course we can't compare the functions with other similar productions.
Anyway, it is balance the value for what you expect.

Rating:

- Well Worth It
A word of caution. Paint Shop Pro Photo is not a "dumbed-down" Photoshop. It is very powerful in it's own right and has a tremendous number of diverse tools and features. It will take time learn if you have not used a program like this before. With Paint Shop Pro X2, you can restore and retouch photos, create your own logos and original artwork, optimize graphics for the Web, draw, paint, create vector graphics, use type, and much more. If you're already a Paint Shop Pro user, you should find X2 familiar and be able to take to it quickly.

I've been a Paint Shop Pro user for quite some time. I've also used various incarnations of Adobe Photoshop (including Elements) for many years, both personally and professionally. I will say, hands-down, Photoshop is the industry standard for a reason. It is powerful and enjoyable to use. Paint Shop Pro is not meant to compete with Photoshop for the high-end professional photo or graphics market. It can come close, but it's not really meant to.

What it does do, and does exceedingly well, is put a tremendous number of very powerful tools at your fingertips at a fraction of the cost of Photoshop. Cost-issues aside, the true value is that the tools work. If they didn't, I would be the first to tell you to go buy or download something else.

When I fired up version X, my first thought was, "Hey, this is pretty powerful stuff. There's not much missing from this." I kept digging and kept being impressed with it. Paint Shop Pro has all the features you would expect from a powerful image editor: layers, color palettes, effects, type, brushes, adjustment layers, masks, the ability to load and save selections, and so forth. There are also vector layers, scalable vector objects, paths, image slicing, image map tools, cool things like tube art, art media (oil brush, chalk, markers, etc.), and more.

I keep current with Paint Shop Pro Photo and remain impressed with version X2. The new gray interface freaked me out at first, but the more I used it the more I liked it. I try to use it in a well-lit room so it doesn't appear overly dark and the photo subjects overly bright. You can go back to the original if you like. The dialog enhancements for the histogram tools are welcome and the new Express Lab centralizes a photo workflow and focuses your thoughts on retouching or restoring them. Those are just a few of the new features.

Is X2 worth it? There are quite a few new tools, enhancements, and other features that make X2 unique from XI. I like and will use many of these features quite a bit. If you're interested in casual or professional photo editing (like me), general graphics use (like me), Web graphics production (like me), or exploring the bounds of your creativity (like me), then this is a great program to try. There are some flaws to the program, of course, but I give it 5 stars because of the tremendous power and real value the package offers.

Do yourself a favor a look into getting a pen tablet as well. They are most definitely worth it.

In the interests of disclosure, I am an author and have a book out on restoring and retouching photos with Paint Shop Pro. I also have a few video tutorials out on different versions of Paint Shop Pro and one on Photoshop Elements. I've also contributed to or been technically involved with some older Photoshop books.

Rating:

- Paint Shop Pro 12
The product is a little difficult to understand for an amateur so I often find myself repeating the same effects for lack of knowledge. There is a nice video tutorial included on the disk A+ for that needed knowledge.

Rating:

- So far, unimpressed
I bought this product based largely on the very thorough review by Scott Fisher. I didn't need any special features and was intending the software for limited use, so it seemed like just the right thing. Now I'm kicking myself for not downloading the trial version first.

I bought the software to use with digital copies of film photographs. Since I wasn't interested in major manipulations, something as expensive as Photo Shop was out of the question. I wanted software that could add watermarks and sharpen out-of-focus photos; Paint Shop Pro failed in both areas. While the software can *add* a watermark, it cannot *create* one, making it completely useless for this task. Software that can create watermarks can also add them to the photo, so I don't need this feature in Paint Shop. (I subsequently bought and am very pleased with Visual Watermark.) As for sharpening up blurred images, the option exists but the results do not resemble sharpening as I would define the term. Instead, the image tones were enhanced, making perhaps a more pleasing image, but not a sharp one. I also tried experimenting with noise reduction (to obscure the perfectly sharp, inappropriate so, background) and this did seem to work well. I did not experience any installation or startup problems as described by other reviewers.

Bottom line, try this software before purchasing. It may be just what you are looking for, or it could be a waste of money (in my case, $15 more of a waste than it would have been if I had purchased it today).

*** update, July 2008 ***
I have since purchased a digital camera so have been using this program a bit more. The retouching tools are reasonably easy to use and I've been happy with the results. I'm still unhappy with the sharpening tool, which either does nothing (lowest setting) or bleaches out all the color (high pass sharpen).

My latest disappointment is that the program cannot open a RAW file from my camera, the Lumix FZ50. Um, shouldn't it support file formats from all digital cameras?

Rating:

- Quick and easy
PSP Photo X2 'does' photos very well with minimal user input. The GUI is ergonomically sound and straightforward. It integrates with Word and WordPerfect reasonably well, though with a little less flex1bility than the Paint Shop app in Graphics Suite 12 (which is why I didn't give it the 5th star). I'm running Vista on this machine, and it objects to 'Suite 12'. Summarizing, Photo X2 fixes photos very well, and lets you use them where you want to - well enough.

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