There are several features that are unique to Paint Shop Pro however, and which reflect its more consumer-oriented market. Again this is a feature that also appears in Photoshop CS2. Another feature that will be familiar to Photoshop users is Layer Styles, in which filters and effects that are added to a layer can be edited independently within that layer, without having to undo half the image in order to make adjustments to previous changes. It is a feature that was added to Adobe Photoshop with version CS2, launched in early 2006, so Corel has clearly been playing catch-up in this area. This is a function that merges together series of two or more photos taken from the same position but at different exposures, in order to produce a composite image with greater shadow and highlight detail than a normal digital camera photograph. One of these is HDR Photo Merge, a subject which I covered in a recent tutorial. There has always been a certain element of “keeping up with the Joneses” between Corel and Adobe, so it’s no surprise that some of the new additions mirror features recently added to Photoshop. Apart from demonstrating a limited understanding of the Roman numbering system, the latest version introduces several new features, improves some existing ones, and adds an attractive new interface theme. The previous version, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, was launched in September last year and has proved to be very popular, so just a year later a new version has been launched, named Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.
Jasc was taken over in 2004 by Corel Corporation, and the new owners have invested serious development and marketing resources into Paint Shop Pro, adding many new features and promoting the product to take advantage of the growing popularity of digital photography and home photo editing. Originally launched by Jasc Software in 1992 as a bitmap and vector graphics editor, it has grown to become a powerful photo editing and organising suite with a wide range of powerful functions, many of which rival those of Photoshop. In the world of photo editing programs, Paint Shop Pro has always been the leading alternative to Adobe Photoshop, for those who are unable or unwilling to afford the hefty price of the market-leading product.
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