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| Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 | 
 enlarge | From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $68.99
You Save: $11.00 (14%)
New (27) Used (2) from $58.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 319
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8 x 2
MPN: PSPPX2ENGPC
Model: PSPPX2ENPC
UPC: 735163116250
EAN: 0735163116229
ASIN: B000VJTL1Y
Release Date: September 20, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Great program, but... December 24, 2008
... it requires a computer with a lot of power to be effective. More power than my AMD Athlon 2800 can provide. So I'll need to upgrade my computer if I want to use this program.
good software December 23, 2008
Have not had too much time to use this with the Christmas preperations. What I have used so far looks like just what I wanted.
 Good software to learn with December 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this software for the bargain price of $38. I had been waiting for the price to come down & it did. For that price, this software is worth every penny and thensome. There are a lot of creative features that you can use to add artistic touches to your pictures. There are also the standard photo fixers that fix lighting, red eye, "noise", and color problems. The book that comes with the software walks you through each feature. I'd recommend it.
Best value for photo editing December 12, 2008
I had used Adobe Paint Shop a few years ago but found it too slow and not very user-friendly, so I returned it. I also used a beta version of Lightroom, but didn't need it enough to upgrade when it was released. I bought Corel's product (Ultimate version) on sale for roughly 1/10 the price of Adobe's! My friend (who is very serious about digital processing and uses Adobe's Lightroom, Paint Shop, a stand-alone HDR product and Corel Paint Shop) and I compare capabilities of the different products. Here's our current verdict:
- Best at HDR: Corel
- Best at white balance (especially 'blow outs'): Adobe Photo Shop
- Best layout and ease-of-use: Corel (me) vs. Lightroom (my friend, with a more intensive processing methodology)
- Best value: Corel
Other strengths of the Corel package:
- Sharpen
- Clarify (color)
- Niks color effects plugin (especially brightness & warmth)
- Brush strokes effects
Some weaknesses:
- Poor online tech support: I had an installation issue stalled in email for several days before it was escalated to a phone support person who was able to solve it in 2 minutes.
- Layout is still a bit complex and the context sensitivity doesn't always show you what you want.
- Slower to adopt new Camera RAW formats than Adobe.
Great inexpensive software for amateur photographers December 12, 2008
I purchased this software when it was a lightning deal. I figured that it wasn't much of an investment to see how the software worked. I have been very pleased with it. I'll admit, I still have yet to read the directions, so I know that there's much more I'll be able to do with it in the future, but I was able to figure out a number of things just by playing with it. After reading reviews that said it wasn't user-friendly, I was surprised that it was easy for me to figure out several things on my own. I have been very pleased with their red-eye features - which have animal eye options as well as human eye options. Also, one of the main reasons I purchased this was because of the thinify feature. This does work as well as I'd hoped, but works best when there is only one person in the picture. It thins the subject from a center point that you choose - so if you're trying to thin one person, the other person may appear distorted. As I've said, I'm still playing around with it, but I am not a very computer savvy person and I would recommend this to the amateur photographer that wants relatively inexpensive software to edit their photos.
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