Corel Paint Shop Pro 9 [Old Version] Description:

Corel Paint Shop Pro 9 [Old Version] review:
5 stars (Paint shop 9) - Excellent service. Very well pleased. Quick shipment. Product in great shape. Thanks, Debbie
5 stars (Paint Shop Pro RULES!) - Hi, my internet nickname is StoryMaker and you can call me that. Anyways, PSP9 RULES! I saw on lots of websites "I've edited this with Paint Shop Pro!" and such. I wanted PSP. One christmas I got PSP. It has lots of different brushes and there's tons of cool effects! I still use Paint (the picture editing program that comes with Windows) a lot, but when it's time for some fun, it's time for Paint Shop Pro! (And it's VERY fun!) It even comes with Animation Shop 3 so you can make cool animations and even mini movies! I recommend buying it! Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"
5 stars (Excellent for (most) photography work) - I use this exclusively for photography. I have found it to be MUCH faster that Photoshop for EVERY photo manipulation I have ever tried. Much easier to learn than Photoshop. In my view, Photoshop is more of a tool for graphic designers, and not for photographers. Not to say you can't do graphic design with Paint Shop, I just don't use it for that. The only drawbacks I have found for digital photography work are:

1. Does not support 16 bit images (necessary for the highest commercial, advertising quality photo work)

2. Does not support A FEW select photography Plug-Ins that are available only for Photoshop. However, MOST plug ins will work with it, and the few that don't have comparable competitors that do work in Paint SHop.

I love this program, and have now removed Photoshop from my computer for the sake of simplicity keeping only Paint Shop. Hopefully subsequent versions WILL support 16 bit images which is currently the only real drawback to this fine software product.