Paint Shop Pro vs: Photo Paint

[knucklehead]

Hey, this is Mike, new member here. Was given a book the other day, Imagine Yourself Using Paint Shop Pro. What, if any, is the difference between it, and the PhotoPaint that came my my X-4 Suite? Thanks Mike

[Ron P.]

Welcome to the forums,

The major difference is how you go about doing the same things. I do have both PSPP X3 and Graphics Suite X4. I haven't used PSPP X3 enough recently, and upon reading your post, fired up both, and learned that PSPP X3 is capable of CMYK, which I thought was a big plus for PhotoPaint. Kinda depends on the type of work you do with PhotoPaint, the workflow you're accustom to, to see differences from your perspective.

Download the trial for PSPP X3 and use it in the manner that you would PhotoPaint. That will give you an idea of what may be different, and if it is worth it to you. Both are very powerful programs in their own rights. Both have separate strong points, which again I think is what each person may use them for.

[David Milisock]

Paintshop Pros X3 is a very powerful program designed for the novice user, to the more high end output for the advanced user, it is application color managedeaning that images have to be converted to the application colo rspace or the application changed to the images color space to view and edit them properly, it has a great many filters but in my opinion it is geared for photographic output to a non-postscript print device, display view or photo Lab, PSP X3 is primarily designed as an RGB application. PSP X3 SP3 is a great augmentation application to Corel Photo-PAINT X5 as it has effects and filters that PP does not, the same can be said for Corel Photo-PAINT, it has many featurs that PSP X3 does not. Advanced users will be able to use PSP X3 for archival prints on ink jets production

Corel Photo-PAINT X5 is a document color managed application meaning that is has the ability to open multiple files, view and print them individually in their proper color space be it be RGB or CMYK to any postscript or non-postscript device or RIP driven device. Photo-PAINT X5 is fully CMYK and spot color capable and is primarily designed to be an image editing augmentation application for the CorelDRAW Graphics Site X5 and is designed fro professional level print production, by that I mean print press, digital press, inkjet in, large and grand format as well as office volume postscript and non-postscritp environments. Corel Photo-PAINT is well versed as a archival print image editor.

[knucklehead]

Thanks. I reckon when I get a new computer, I'll just add the PSP to my Corel Suite. After reading about all the bugs in it, I think I can get by until they fix it. I'm just printing signs, and banners and such, that's not that color critical.

[David Milisock]

Thanks. I reckon when I get a new computer, I'll just add the PSP to my Corel Suite. After reading about all the bugs in it, I think I can get by until they fix it. I'm just printing signs, and banners and such, that's not that color critical.

The reality is that critical color is not the issue. The same quality color can be had from both programs, no contour cutting from PSP and I'm not sure of any file size limitations yet in PSP X3.