Corel Paintshop Pro Alternatives For Mac
When it comes to photo editing software, there’s an 800-pound gorilla in the room with “shop” in the name. It isn’t Corel’s PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate, reviewed here. The gorilla is made by Adobe, and it’s called Photoshop. Photoshop is very expensive, and it’s the industry standard. I can report, though, that the much less costly PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate combines powerful photo editing and design features that are comparable to Photoshop’s with easy-to-use filter effects and photo management features you won’t find in Photoshop. The retail box version of PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate comes with two DVDs, one containing the main program and the other a set of filter effects and other frills that distinguish the Ultimate version, at $99.95 list, from the regular version, list priced at $79.99. Performance I installed PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate on a relatively humble Acer Aspire One mini-notebook running Windows 7 with an AMD-50 processor (dual core, 1-GHz) and 2 GB of RAM.
This barely met the system requirements, but the program installed and ran almost without a hiccup. When you first launch PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate a splash screen appears indicating that this is actually version 15 of the program. I was delighted to find that the software does not first try to organize your entire photo library. Instead, it very politely asks which file types to associate with the application, the suggestion being “none,” which I accepted. Then, a pop up window tells you that you must register for the Corel Community to read the onscreen Corel Guide. This is, and it’s one of the only drawbacks, especially if you install the program onto a computer that does not always have Internet access.
But most users will probably consider this complaint to be minor, and there are plenty of onscreen tips and instructions available offline even without the full guide. Three main tabs along the top of the screen let you choose between Manage, Adjust, and Edit, with the program opening on the Manage tab showing what’s in the “My Photos” folder. A “Browse More Folders” option lets you choose different directories to look through. A very cool dual monitor mode, accessible from the View menu, lets you keep the Manage tab open all the time on one screen, while using Adjust or Edit on the other. In the single-screen Manage mode, the selected picture appears in the middle while others in the directory appear filmstrip-style along the bottom.
On the right of the screen are windows for Info about the selected photo (such as which camera it was taken with, location information, etc.) and “Instant Effects,” pictured in one of the screenshots at right. (To see expanded views of screenshots, please click on the images.) Dozens of effects are listed in “Instant Effects,” including effects for black and white, artistic effects, film styles, landscapes, portrait (skin tones and effects), retro, traditional, and “user-defined.” As soon as you apply an effect, the program asks if you want to save a copy of the unmodified original photos, which you should definitely do so you have a backup in case you don’t like your changes. There is an undo button available for these effects, although it’s hidden in the Instant Effects menu. It’s labeled “revert current editing,” and it gets rid of all the applied effects all at once. You can’t remove them one at a time. The photo management options along the bottom strip are also extensive. These include face recognition software which lets you locate photos of the same subject, as well as organize photos by time period or location.
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You can also share photos or albums with online services such as Facebook, Flickr and Google+. You can either upload full resolution or reduced resolution versions of the photos. Where To Find the Photo Editing ‘Basics’ The Adjust tab is where you’ll find what most beginners would consider the guts of photo editing: adjusting brightness, contrast, colors, cropping, etc. A histogram appears in the upper left corner of the screen mapping red, blue, and green light in the image. A simple but very useful drop down list of presets in the crop menu lets you change cropping free form, as most other photo editing programs do. However, it also includes several aspect ratio presets, such as 16 x 9, square, and 3 x 5.
These are quite useful if you’re planning to print the image or use it as part of a video production. A tool called “Smart Photo Fix” suggests adjustments to the image. I tried this on a few images but I really didn’t like these suggestions all that much. More useful, I thought, was the Fill Light/Clarity adjustment here, which lets you adjust sharpness and change the brightness of the background while leaving the main subject untouched. (That’s their definition of fill light, not a photographer’s!) More sophisticated adjustments here include digital noise removal, local tone mapping (grouping blocks of pixels together and creating high contrast effects), and high pass sharpen (adjustable sharpening). A red-eye removal tool is also on hand.
An Edit drop down menu lets you undo each adjustment, as well as quickly revert back to the original. When it comes time to save the modified image, PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate offers dozens of file types, including of course all the familiar ones like jpg, tif, bmp, etc. Corel also offers its own format, which retains all the editing information so you can continue working on an image. Also offered are several Macintosh-compatible formats. Most significantly, however, the all-important psd Photoshop file format is included, which means you can be compatible with the rest of the world.
Photoshop-Style Features Speaking of Photoshop, it is the third Edit tab where the full power of PaintShop Pro X5 Ultimate becomes apparent, and where comparisons to the 800-pound gorilla become relevant. This is where you’ll find Photoshop-style layers, including all of the previously mentioned effects and adjustments and a zillion more, as well as a titling tool, shape tools, freehand drawing tools and brushes, and much more. Among many other noteworthy features, the familiar Magic Wand tool from Photoshop is present here, allowing you to quickly select irregularly shaped objects within an image. Unfortunately, this was the one hiccup I experienced. The program crashed the first time I used the Magic Wand, though when I re-launched the program and tried it again the Magic Wand worked fine.
Just like the Photoshop version.
User friendly, 30 day trail off website and only 29 USD on the App Store if you like it. I use it now and find it the best alternative to PS CS6, I think its also better then PS Elements. It want do everything that PS or PSPro will.
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But its well worth more then you pay for. GIMP is awesome.
Just takes a learning curve. But the reason I don't use GIMP is that for some reason on Windows or OSX, editing any file or picture about 12MP or bigger just causes the program to move hideously slow. On Linux however it does not have this issue. Also GIMP still lacks non destructive editing. The current GIMP team needs punched right in the teeth for not addressing these issues 8 years ago like many of us at the time were pushing for but they ignored. Sorry little rant at the end.
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BTW my red avatar on the side was done in GIMP. Canon badge at the bottom was done in Pixelmator. Many thanks, went with Pixelmator in the end. I really enjoy Pixelmator. Its name is its biggest holdback IMHO. Its a very serious program with a not so serious name title. I have used many software drawing/painting/editing programs over the years.
Pm is one of the best. If you even consider Adobe's Photoshop Elements (Photoshop lite version), it still outperforms it in so many ways.
Even with the fact that PSE has HDR and Panoramic stitching software, their implementations of those are just garbage and un usable. PSE is like if say, Toyota sold you a car but locked the steering wheel in one direction, had the radio tuned into one station, equipped the car with AirCon but you can't change the temp and rolled the windows half way down and prevented you from rolling them back up or further down. Even if it was dirt cheap, would you really want it. LOL Thumbs Up for Pixelmator.