Will Corel PSP ever support working directy in CMYK colours

[Clara]

I have been 'grown up' with PSP from version 1.0 and now working with 64bit version of PSP X6. Still my favourite photo editing app.
I have regularly designed logo's and other stuffs with PSP, however, the main handicap remains the possibility for working directly in CMYK Colour space. Almost all Adobe applications offer the ability to work directly in CMYK colour space to enable a better workflow with pro-printing industry. I am regurarly forced to do design my works (mainly flyers) by using Adobe Photoshop.
My question remains: will Corel PSP ever support directly working in CMYK colour space? Or is there any planning to enable this in the future with direct pdf export feature?

Tnx.

[LeviFiction]

The recommendation from Corel regarding CMYK is to use Corel Draw and Photo-Paint as those are professional grade softwares.

Much as we often compare to Photoshop, technically Photoshop Elements is PaintShop Pro's closest competitor from the Adobe market and it also doesn't support CMYK. I think they would have to develop a truly professional version of Paint Shop Pro with the price-line to match to reason developing CMYK editing.

[SilverCheek]

I, too, am a user of PaintShop Prox6 and in need of a program that has a CMYK option. I have tried PhotoShop, but I don't like it. CorelDraw is good, but I don't want to spend that much at this time. I've also downloaded several free programs that allow viewing in CMYK, but I've not been able to get a single one of them to work properly. I noticed that you mentioned Photo Paint. I went to the Corel site to have a gander, but I didn't see anything named Photo Paint. I did see Painter, though. Was this the program to which you were referring? Thanks for any help.

[LeviFiction]

Photo-Paint is the graphics editing program that comes as part of the Corel Draw Suite. It is not sold separately.

Painter is something else entirely, and does not support CMYK editing. Painter like PSP you can save a TIFF file with CMYK color space but you cannot edit it in CYMK.

[SilverCheek]

Thank you for the prompt reply, LeviFiction. I suppose I will have to wait and see if either the price of CorelDraw goes down or Corel starts offering monthly renting of applications....or I beome comfortable enough is the USs broken economy to spring for the asking price.

Thanks again!

PS: Does Corel not offer previous versions of CorelDraw?

[LeviFiction]

Corel Draw does have a subscription plan

http://www.coreldraw.com/us/product/gra ... ack=mmcdgs

[SilverCheek]

Well, that is good news. The price is reasonable, too. Does it support the import and saving of eps, png, and jpg file types?

[LeviFiction]

Loosely I will say Yes. I don't know how good the EPS support is. As always, the recommendation is download the trial and see for yourself if you think can use it. Test the outputs.

Also Corel Draw has its own community and forums, we don't really deal with that here. So any more specific questions should be posted over there.

https://community.coreldraw.com/forums/