A few quotes:kapral_1 wrote:I've been using Corel products for many years, the latest one being PaintShopProX2 purchased about 2007. It was great. Now I upgraded my machine to Windows 10 and my old faithful X2 no longer works.
I downloaded trial version Paint Shop Pro 2018. What a disaster!!!
First: it is VERY SLOW in almost all aspects of editing. Using crop tool is now so difficult, it is almost not usable. It takes about 3 seconds to drag a node across. I mean I grab the corner drag it and it takes long time to respond. Also dialog boxes are slow to open.
Second: Window resize. In Preferences>View I've ticked all the boxes, exactly as in my old X2. When resizing an image, the window seems completely out of control. To explain this issue I will try to attach some screen shots. Image99 shows the picture before resizing with those large, undesirable margins, Image100 shows the window after resizing the image. This problem goes on. With my settings the window should "hug" the image. Instead it leaves large margins around the image. Also images appear too small, almost like the window is the right size, but the image is shrunk. When I switch tool eg. from crop to straighten, the image zooms out of control. When I opened two almost identical images by drag and drop, one opens in 100% zoom with scroll bars and the other one is 48% zoom with those strange margins around it.
Third: Having to use external program to scan images in is real pain.
Those problems makes the new PaintShop very "user unfriendly".
- you need a SSD insteed of classic HDD
- you need at least 4GB DD3 RAM
- you need switch off(???) a slow antivirus and file checker utilities ...they radiply slow down PC, when PaintShop Pro starts it loads nearly hundred .DLL's and services, online checks etc. It is already discused in last years here in forum many times.
- you need switch off all others programs, some people run Google Chrome, mail programs, etc. and it low performance especialy start of PaintShop Pro to minutes(!!).
- don't use system tweak utilities that are agresive when perform system cleanup and optimize system startup or services ...it many times corrupts somehow instalation of PaintShop Pro and the result is unspecific crash, unexpected behavior etc. ...lively discussed if forum up today.
- final note: Corel PaintShop Pro 2018 SP1 is far from bugs free program...
Even on decent PC hardware and clean OS Windows 10 installation it runs relatively slow. If version X2 do not crash so frequently, in my opinions it was last with fast reaction times and dialogs.. 