( 19 reviews )
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Posted: Jun 2 2009
This transaction was excellent. I received what I ordered, in good condition, and speedilyu
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Posted: Nov 25 2008
If you've never owned PaintShop Pro before, you'll probably find it to be a very capable program with a great price point compared to industry standards like Adobe Photoshop. If you are a former and long-time PSP owner like me (since version 7), you won't find anything compelling about any version after 9, but you will get a lot of cruft that you'll probably never use. In addition to not having any compelling reason to upgrade, PaintShop pro has become extremely annoying to use. In addition to all of the other user interface changes mentioned by other reviewers, Corel has installed it's own spam software which cannot be disabled. It is simply not acceptable for any software which is not trialware or freeware to display ads while I am working, and the fact that the ads are from Corel itself does not excuse this horrid decision. Fortunately for me, I've reached a stage in my career where my budget and business expense allowance enable me to obtain Adobe's far more expensive PaintShop Pro. While I prefer the Corel product's simplicity for most tasks and find it generally quite capable, that very simplicity is being further eroded with every version upgrade, and I absolutely won't tolerate spam, so this is the last version of PaintShop Pro that I will ever purchase.
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Posted: Jul 27 2008
Like other reviewers here, I, too, recommend stopping at version 8. Above that, I've encountered glitches that drive me nuts. For example, with ver.9 and up, I often encounter dialogue boxes telling me my system is short of memory and cannot perform tasks at hand. The 1st time this happened, I had 3.5Gbs system memory. On a new computer, I had 4 GB and still encountered the problem. On my latest system, I have 8 GB system memory and I am still being stopped in my tracks for "lack of system memory". There are freezes, too, and, as others noted here, PSP X, XI up are painfully slow to work with. I really hated to say goodbye to PSP but it is no longer what it was when JASC owned the company.
