This is a graphics design application. So let's say you have a website and you want to animate a couple things: a loading screen, a banner, a basic gif, etc. Jasc is an easy and free way to do this. You start with the image and you can generate professional-looking animations with relative ease. You can download and try the software for free so there's no risk to begin playing around with it and see what it can do. It's not necessarily going to meet every possible graphics design and animation need, but for basic uses and for free trial software it's something you may want to check out. This software has also been around for a very long time, so while some of the interfaces do look old they should also be tried and true.
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Save time and edit faster by doing more touchups and photo corrections in AfterShot Pro 3, rather than jumping to PaintShop Pro or Adobe Photoshop. The new Blemish Remover offers circle, brush, polygon and freehand tools for detailed editing, making portrait editing faster and easier. Remove dust, spots, smudges and a variety of imperfections on any photo.
Now it's easier to tap into the power of presets to automate more of your repetitive processing jobs or quickly reproduce a look that would otherwise be tedious to replicate. The new Image Preset Library^ lets you browse, preview and download free and for-purchase presets.
Bought it today and installed. Only $60 and does practically anything CS5 can do and some things CS5 can't. Looks like Corel is getting serious about competing with Adobe ... an excellent upgrade. The only important feature that still does not work with 48 bit images is the clone brush but found a free plug-in that's actually better. *ALL* my Topaz, Nik, etc. plug-ins work on 48 bit images. Agree the Adobe UI is not as good, BTW. It's tough going back to CS5 after using Paintshop again. Still not a 32 bit app but a minor criticism. Also agree Corel's copy protection can be a pain under some circumstances. That's the one area where they might want to do it the Adobe way. Corel may finally be listening to customers. 48 bit image support is an important advance. If you are on X2/X3 this is worth the small cost to upgrade.
Since Adobe announced their new pricing structure, I have been looking for alternatives. I downloaded the free Trial of Corel PSPx5...wow, very slow to load (I have 2Tb of photos on my system, disabled the cataloging, deleted the Database (*.db) file, still slow at loading up, it crashes and freezes on my Quad-core, 16GB RAM, 1Gb video card desktop system (Adobe CS 4 and all its programs never give me trouble). Though CPSPx5 has some nice features, the "clunkiness" rules it out for me.
Awful program. Interface is kludgy and poorly designed, not as bad as Adobe, but trying to imitate that app destroyed what was Paint Shop's best feature -- ease of use. One of the most buggy apps I've ever used. Almost as bad as Pinnacle, in that class in terms of bad code. Won't load, takes forever to load, freezes, won't let you save work. A total mess. I thought X2, X3, X4 were bad. This is the worst. I've quit Corel and moved to Photoshop, which I detest. It's that bad.
Updaqte as at 29th October re Corel Paint Shop Pro X5 and AfterShot Pro. Both products still exhibit drastic vignetting / distortion when downloading wide angle RAW files taken with Canon G1X. Finally Corel have closed this file , as they said "...due to no activity for the last 10 days... Interesting !! there was no communication from Corel during tha t time that any action from their end was contemplated. I have tested both Lightroom 4 and Photoshop Elements 11 - these two Adobe products appear to handle these files correctly. I'd be interested to hear of anyone else who've experienced similar problems with these Corel products. p.s. A letter (not email) was forwarded to the company's head office some time ago - at the time of posting to this forum (surprise, surprise) I have received no response.
Paintshop Pro X4 is just buggy! First it takes about 20 seconds to open up, when it does open up correctly, then occasionally, it will not completely load and crash.Seeing from other users here, why should I take a chance with X5?Since I purchased X4, I have not seen one update to correct for the bugs, and I have not read that X5 corrected these bugs.I may buy it second-hand on ebay, when people start selling it, if it's cheap enough.P.S. I run WinXP on a virus-free Quad speed cpu desktop and have 4gb of memory and plenty of room on my hard drive!
Worse, the program actually makes you think that you can save a 16-bit TIF, but if I then take the saved TIF and look at the histogram, I find that there are only 256 distinct levels of RGB information, not 65,536 (using the "wide histogram" plugin in Photoshop, or the freeware application "Histogrammar").
There are apparently no solid figures available for Macs in use worldwide -- Apple probably knows but isn't talking -- but estimates exist that 80-million Macs (and perhaps up to 100-million when you include older, pre-Intel chip versions) are currently in use. Not too shabby. Corel makes a pretty fine product, and yes, it would take a lot of R&D to gear up a Mac version of PaintShop, but that could mean MILLIONS of copies sold to the Mac creative community on a continuing basis, who are sick of paying $600-$900 for the bloated and overpriced Adobe Photoshops. If you were the CEO of Corel, why wouldn't you start down that road, knowing that the market is just sitting there waiting? Come on Corel, it's the 21st Century --get over the anti-Mac 1980's huff and climb on board! 2ff7e9595c
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