There’s something of a duality about PaintShop Pro. Newcomers to image editing will have their hands full, but experts will have all they could hope for. PaintShop Pro, then, has its pendulum swinging heavily towards the professional editing demographic and its software – available for $79.99 alongside a 30-day free trial – is crammed full of features to match this purpose. Some will focus on providing a cloud-based service, others on vector editing or helping create great social media images, while the rest can be divided up by their respective target audiences. Those days have since flown by, and nowadays there’s a bevy of choices and options open to the would-be photo editor, which means that it’s particularly important for developers to specialize. Imagine a time when Corel’s long-running PaintShop suite was in a two-horse race with Photoshop. Imagine a time when you could count the features of these tools on a pair of hands. Imagine a time when photo editing software came on a disk.

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