This is very handy when making corrections to dozens of shots from the same continuous shooting stream and exposure conditions.
Every widget has a list of presets which user can customize and save as their own preset options.
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But PaintShop Pro X4 provides a rule of thirds overlayand properties handy right at the bottom of the crop region.īut PaintShop Pro X4 has two unique features used throughout all its filters and widgets. Ditto the Crop tool, Photoshop is nearly twice as fast and also has more control on resizing and perspective corrctions during the crop which are real timesavers.
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Photoshop’s conversion to to B+W is not only 7 times faster but has much better control of the RGB/CMY inputs plus a very handy Tinting option all rolled into the B+W widget. Photoshop not only out performed by a wide margin but also had better features in many cases.įor example, Photoshop’s Curves has point and drawn curves with more options.
Adobe has certainly been able to keep CS3 updated with the latest performance improvements. However, after you got the Photoshop CS3 and PaintShop Pro X4 started up and the file loaded, Photoshop CS3 outperformed both PaintShop Pro versions in every subsequent test. Tests rerun with new 16MB image and 3GB Dual Core Pentium 3 Processor in Win 7 with SP1 The other interesting result was that PaintShop Pro X4 was marginally faster than it predecessor in just about every test as shown in the table below: Measure The version used was PaintShop Pro X4 Service Pack1. First, unlike PaintShop Pro X3 there were absolutely no crashes nor slowdowns in respoonse time, PaintShop Pro X4 performed well throughout the performance benchmarks and other review tests. The test results shown in the table below were fascinating. So a new test image at 70Mpixel 72DPI and 16MB from the Toronto Busker Fest 2011 shown in reduced size below was used for the new tests.ħ0MPixel, 16MB Toronto BuskerFest Test Image Problem – the original test image could not be found.
Given the positive word from TechRadar and others on Paint Shop Pro X4 performance I decided to repeat the test done on PaintShop Pro X3 with Photoshop CS 3. Manage is very similar to Adobe Bridge or the equivalent in ACDSee Pro – this is the place to organize and manage all your images. So the lifo stack got pushed and here is how PaintShop Pro X4 appeared on screen:Īctually this was the second screen seen as the Manage – Adjust – Edit tabs across the top of the screen were new and worthy of exploration. So Corel’s next release, PaintShop Pro X4, April 2011 just got pushed down the LIFO stack of things to cover at the PhotoFinishes until this review at TechRadar – Corel Paintshop Pro is fast. But I had moved onto Adobe LightRoom and some online tools like Picnik. Having already seen the downward trend with PaintShop Pro X1 – the verdict was to let the PaintShop Pro franchise Rest in Pieces.īut less than a year later Corel came up with Paint Shop Pro X3 which utterly surprised this reviewer with a much stabler program, improved response time, and a very useful Learning Center sidebar that made working with the program notably easier.
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I had just tried the latest version, PaintShop Pro X2, and found it to be awful – slow, bloated and failing like its fellow software boondoggle of the day, Microsoft Vista. Back on April Fools Day 2009, the headline was RIP: Corel PaintShop Pro.
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