
Corel PaintShop Pro X4 review
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Replacing PaintShop Photo Pro X3, PaintShop Pro X4 is overflowing with both new and enhanced features and seeks to address the stability and performance issues of the earlier software.
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Replacing PaintShop Photo Pro X3, PaintShop Pro X4 is overflowing with both new and enhanced features and seeks to address the stability and performance issues of the earlier software.

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Paint Shop Pro X is the first version to be published under the Corel banner, and there are some obvious differences straight away. The interface is now simpler, cleaner and more beginner-friendly

Paint Shop Pro PHOTO XI now includes an Organiser, a window allowing easy thumbnail browsing of your photo collection. Pick an image, then choose the Learning Centre option for whatever you want to do next, whatever that might be.

First things first; Painter does exactly what it says on the tin. Literally: our review copy of Corel Painter X came in a big paint tin. We got our mitts on the limited-edition version complete with special packaging and a glossy poster

Corel inherited its Photo Album software when it bought Jasc, but now it's knocked the name on the head and made the move to SnapFire Plus version 1, seemingly in response to Google's Picasa