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 Loved PSP9 . There are problems with XI January 16, 2007
L. Jones (California)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've been a digital artist for 5 years and always loved and supported PaintShopPro and Corel products. I have to say I am very disappointed in the new version, PSPXI.
No problems with the download, but the program crashes easily, you can not drag and drop as fast as in 9, basically is slower in everything you do. I am a photographer, and looked forward to the new photo features, which work, but for panoramas and complicated work others than one photo forget it. Just hangs up and so slow you could go have dinner in between.
I have searched the net and support wise, the upgrades and patches have not helped. Corel is not solving the problem and maybe they can't. This is not a PC problem which they so want us to believe. I have plenty of memory and speed on my PC. It may be something involving how the XI stores it's cache. Not sure. But the changes are not workable, sadly.
I think there are some corrupt files or driver problems that Corel desparately needs to fix and supply us with, or they will find themselves out of the PS market. This is not just me talking, it has happened to alot of loyal fans. Because it could be the better than Photoshop if they fix it. If you really want the program, download the free trial first and or try the X or 9 version, especially if your PC is an older model.
 New and Improved Features October 16, 2006
Diane Cipollo (Editor at BellaOnline.com)
19 out of 29 found this review helpful
Paint Shop Pro has been a favorite graphics software for many years and has a large number of faithful users. It is used by photographers and hobbyists to arrange, organize, adjust and enhance photos. On the other hand, it is used by many artists to create digital art, marketing and web graphics and more. Paint Shop Pro is on its eleventh upgrade and is now owned by the Corel Corporation. With this latest upgrade, named Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, the software has some new and improved features that will help you increase your creativity and productivity.
The new Photo Organizer is the newest generation of the old browser. As in previous versions, you can use the new Photo Organizer to view thumbnails of your stored images and video clips or search based on filename, date, file type and size, folder location, tags and ratings. Another new feature is the Quick Review slide-show that lets you view images or video clips in full screen mode, make basic adjustments or add text.
Once you get organized, it's time to play with some of the other new features. The one I enjoyed the most is the Time Machine which you will find under the Effects menu. This new feature quickly converts your photos into representations of what that photo would look like if it was taken with the photographic equipment available in the past. The Time Machine spans several decades starting with the Daguerreotype used from 1839 - 1855, moving along the timeline to Albumen (1855 - 1890), Cyanotype, Platinum (1873 - 1920), Early Color, Box Cameras and finally Cross Process (1960+).
Also new is the Depth of Field photo effect found in the Adjust menu. This effect simulates the Depth of Field created with expensive camera filters. After you select the area of the photo that you wish to be your point of interest, the program blurs the areas surrounding the selected area.
The Crop tool has been improved giving you more control via a new floating toolbar. You can choose one of the preset crop sizes, draw the crop rectangle free form and rotate the crop rectangle. Other new features includes the Film and Filters effects which contains many customizable photo effects including Vivid skin tones and Vibrant foliage which, as the names suggest, enhance certain colors in your photos. The E-mail command has been improved so that it automatically resizes your images before adding them to your email, as an attachment or embedded in the email message itself.
Paint Shop Pro Photo comes packaged with a few extras including trail versions of two of Corel's software, Corel Painter Essentials and Snapfire Plus SE. Snapfire is especially nice for those who enjoy computer crafts. It contains several project templates for album pages, greeting cards, calendars and collages.
Great editor for the amateur December 27, 2006
M A Sletten (Rome, NY USA)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I had previously used PSP 7 and had thought that was pretty good in comparison to others I had tried; including Adobe Elements, Microsoft Digital Image, Printshop Prophoto and a few others. I was never impressed enough with the others to switch.
I have finally switched. Picked this up for $50 and for that price it is a great value. The improved red eye remover alone is worth the cost. I can't believe how simple and easy it is. I am not like some of the other reviewers with massive image libraries, so I can't speak to their issues. I am an average digital camera user who needs to do basic correcting and editing before printing or emailing the photos. This handles that job with ease. This program has far more to offer than I will ever use.
As far as the speed and crashes go. It takes about 25 seconds to open on my computer (older 2 gig athlon XP) and has not crashed once. Updated via the web to version 11.11, so that may have fixed some of the other users problems.
Includes the tutorial disk, which I haven't used yet and Corel Snapfire which is a photo organization tool. Have used Snapfire some and it is ok except it is slower than the Windows picture viewer when advancing through photos in a directory while previewing them, however you can do basic editing right from it or choose to load the picture into PSP.
So, if you can get it for less the $100 list price it is definitely a capable editor for the average home photographer.
No better than previous versions December 4, 2006
Mike in San Diego (San Diego, CA USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I upgraded to version XI when I read a review that said it would open Nikon D200 RAW (.NEF) files. I hoped that it would open my .NEF files from a Nikon D80 and Kodak Raw (.KDC) files from a Kodak P880 Camera. Both the Nikon and the Kodak RAW file formats are in the "Open" Dialog, but opening a .NEF file yields an "unsupported file" error. Attempting to open a .KDC file yields a "missing parameter" error. An email to customer support asking if these formats should or would be supported got me an email response that was totally unrelated to my question.
XI takes a long time to load, the browser window changed to something unusable a couple versions ago, and I have not discovered any significant new features.
I've used Paint Shop Pro since it was shareware. My recommendation would be to stick with older versions of Paint Shop Pro; preferably one from before Corel bought Paint Shop Pro from JASC.
 Keeps My Hard-drive Humming June 3, 2007
Annalee Blysse (USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
I've been using PSP since it was a free program. At least 10 years. It is my favorite, and this program allows for almost all the fun stuff that I've come to expect. Still, as soon as I find my PSP 8 CDs I will revert back because this version isn't my favorite.
1) This version is keeping my hard drive humming. What is it with computer programers these days? They don't seem to be happy unless they can get 55 processes running in my CPU. I have the fastest computing machine I've ever owned yet this version of PSP is slowing down my computing like never before. This has nothing to do with the images I'm working on. It has to do with the programming choices they made. One thing I've yet to figure out how to get rid of is the Yahoo Toolbar integration.
2) But they got rid of other cool programs. There is no animation shop. "Dear Santa, Please tell Corel to put Animation Shop back in PSP."
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