Today's digital photographer has a lot of options in choosing photo editing software. For the working photographer, Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is one of several good choices, and at the Amazon.com price of $38.49 (List of $99.99 and $69.99 at Corel's website) this software suite (which also includes Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and Corel Instant Viewer) is a real bargain. All of the editing tools one would expect in a quality editing product are included, and the interface is extremely intuitive. Important to photographers is the ability to enter and edit metadata (such as Caption information). Also important to serious photographers is the impressive list of file formats supported, including at least 21 RAW formats. An important option is being able to automatically have the original image as well as the edited image saved. In the past, with other software, we've always had to create a separate folder of original images and a work folder for each project. While this is still a good idea, with this software it is no longer absolutely necessary.
Bottom Line - Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is easy to use and gives professional results with minimal effort. We took a number of original images edited with PhotoShop, coming up with equal quality results using Corel PaintShop, and with less effort. While a longtime PhotoShop diehard, and maintaining that excellent product in our bag of tricks, PaintShop Photo Pro X3 is a welcome addition to the toolbag, and will get frequent if not primary use in the future.Get more detail about Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3.
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