Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro X3 released today.
Corel has released the highly anticipated Paint Shop Photo Pro X3 today along with Corel VideoStudio Pro X3. If you want to try PSP X3 out you can click here to download a fully functional 30 day trial of PaintShopPro X3 directly from Corel.
My new copy of PSP X3 is on its way and I am excited about creating and sharing new Paint Shop Pro X3 tutorials. Once I receive my copy in the mail this week I will post a review and some youtube videos of the new features. Speaking of new features, Corel Paint Shop X3 includes improved digital workflow, new advanced photo-editing tools, and built-in Read more
Paintshopblog welcomes your participation in our new discussion forums
Paintshopblog.com (PSB) welcomes your participation in our Discussion Forums. Our forums are brand new and always open to new comers. We hope to build a large community of Paint Shop Pro users, that can come together to share their expertise, learn new things, make friends, and/or simply show their support for this wonderful piece of software we call Paint Shop Pro.
If you do decide to join the site, please participate Read more
Update on Paintshopblog and new changes
I originally created this blog to archive, share, and help others with Paint Shop Pro during my spare time. However, this site has grown tremendously in popularity in the last few months. I never imagined that this blog would have become this popular. Many visitors have emailed me asking why I do not update this blog more frequently. The reasons I have not updated that often is due time obligations required for the doctorate degree I am working towards, and also work and family obligations.
To satisfy the reader’s desire for new content, and preventing this blog from going stale, I am adding some new sections. I have already added User Submitted Tutorials Section. In the User Submitted Content Section, readers can submit/share links to other Paint Shop Pro Resources and Tutorials they have found on the web. I will also be posting links and descriptions there of tutorials I have enjoyed working through.
Basically the User Submitted section will be a place to find and Read more
Free alternative to Paintshop Pro and photoshop.
Gimp is a advanced cross platform (Windows or Linux) open source (free) image editor that can be used as an alternative to Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.
According to Gimp.org (2008) Gimp has many capabilities.
” It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. ”
To see a full list of features visit gimp.org.
Click here to download the lastest version of Gimp for Windows or Linux.
Here is a Gimp Basics Video to give you an idea of the available tools and interface.
Don’t own Paint shop pro? Edit your photos online with Picnik
Picnik is online image editor that allows you tweak your photos. It has a very easy to user interface that will allow you to do things such as crop, auto enhance, add special effects, fonts, frames, and shapes to your photos. It is completely free to use and supports the major photo sharing sites such as, Flickr, Facebook, photobucket, Picasa, and webshots. (Meaning you can upload your edited images directly to your favorite photo sharing from within the Picnik interface.
Noted features from Picnik.
- Fix your photos in just one click
- Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
- Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
- Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
- Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
- Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
- Basketfuls of shapes from hand-picked designers
- Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
- No download required, nothing to install
Picnik is not a replacement for Paintshop or Photoshop but it does offer quite a few basic editing options thats perfect for quickly editing your photos and/or when you don’t have access to an advanced image editor.
Download classic/old versions of Paint Shop Pro
In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software, and with it, the distribution rights to Paint Shop Pro. Originally called simply Paint Shop, the first version, 1.0, was released in early 1992. Paint Shop was originally distributed as shareware, but is now sold in the United States for US$99.99, or US$59.99 for an upgrade from version 7 or higher, which is considerably lower than the price of its main competition, Adobe Photoshop. International prices vary but there is always a price advantage over Photoshop.
The old shareware and trial versions 2-9 of Paint Shop Pro are available for download at
oldversion.com
Some of the early releases of Paintshop weighed in at a whopping 231kb. These earlier releases have a small memory footprint and are excellent graphic editors for older computers. It’s cool to be able to go back and try out these older versions and see the evolution of such a wonderful product right before your eyes.
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