Trialling PaintShop Pro X7.

[JohnP]

After using PaintShop Pro 9 for so long I'd like to try something else so yesterday I decided to download PaintShop Pro X7... It's on a 30 days trial at the moment. It's pretty impressive, even though the features are similar to Pro9 but obviously much improved and with plenty of new features it's taxing my poor old brain finding my way around... but I'll get there. I'll see how I get on for the next 30 days before forking out any cash. It's on offer at the moment at £63.99 for the Ultimate version. It's no good telling me to buy Photoshop as the cost is beyond me and I'd never make full use of it... I won't even make full use of PaintShop to be honest as I keep my editing to the minimum.

 

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/corel_paintshop_pro_x7_review/

[ChrisLumix]

After using PaintShop Pro 9 for so long I'd like to try something else so yesterday I decided to download PaintShop Pro X7... It's on a 30 days trial at the moment. It's pretty impressive, even though the features are similar to Pro9 but obviously much improved and with plenty of new features it's taxing my poor old brain finding my way around... but I'll get there. I'll see how I get on for the next 30 days before forking out any cash. It's on offer at the moment at £63.99 for the Ultimate version. It's no good telling me to buy Photoshop as the cost is beyond me and I'd never make full use of it... I won't even make full use of PaintShop to be honest as I keep my editing to the minimum.

 

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/corel_paintshop_pro_x7_review/

 

But I didn't tell you to get Photoshop! And frankly, you'd be better off with Elements anyway, though PS Pro X7 looks more capable than Elements anyway, and roughly similar price.

 

(I wonder how many Photoshop users make full use of it anyway? I certainly don't!)

[Phil]

It's no good telling me to buy Photoshop as the cost is beyond me

 

£8.58 per month. I would pay that for ACR alone.

[JohnP]

If any of you knowledgeable folks have read the review I'd really appreciate it if you could tell me what you think about PaintShop X7. I realise there's a huge difference between reading a review and actually using the software but I'd still like someone to comment. anyway. Cheers.

[Guest]

I tried it a while ago but could not get along with it has I found (to me) the interface felt clunky compared to Elements or PhotoShop, some swear by it though.

Edited February 20, 2015 by OlyPaul

[JohnP]

I've just found it on Amazon for £56.19

[JohnP]

I tried it a while ago but could not get along with it has I found (to me) the interface felt clunky compared to Elements or PhotoShop, some swear by it though.

 

I've been using PaintShop Pro9 for years and I like it... it's just got dated now and it's a bore that I can't edit RAW files from my Panasonic FZ100 and Canon 60D without having to convert the images to TIFF first. PaintShop X7 will open them so that's one less process to deal with before I can start editing. I think I will take to the software better than starting off with something completely new to me. I'll play about with it for a few days before making up my mind to buy it.

[JohnP]

This is just a test shot. It's the first HRD I have done with PaintShop Pro X7, three images merged... it seems as good as I get using Photomatix. I'm still trialling the software and learning.

 

[ChrisLumix]

Interesting - it's not easy to tell it's HDR, it could almost be a straight from camera shot. Which is probably the effect you wanted?

[JohnP]

Interesting - it's not easy to tell it's HDR, it could almost be a straight from camera shot. Which is probably the effect you wanted?

 

Chris...  it was three images taken free hand,  -1 stop, normal and + 1 stop. Actually as I was using this new software I forgot to use auto-align so I'm surprised the image turned out as good as this. The sky is much improved in this image as it was over exposed in the original normal shot.

Edited February 21, 2015 by JohnP