Corel Paintshop Pro vs. Photoshop??

[CanadianJake]

1) What do you prefer and why? I have been using Corel PSP for awhile now. Would it be beneficially to move to Photoshop?

2) Photoshop: I see monthly membership prices? What is with that?

Confused and curious.

Thanks,

Randall
aka Canadianjake

[Manfred M]

1. I have used PSP and found it an okay product, but not nearly as powerful and well developed and PS. I no longer us it.

2. Adobe has gone to a subscription only model for PS and other software that are part of the Creative Suite. I do subscribe. You can get Photoshop (bundled with Bridge and Lightroom, I believe) or go for the whole CC, with two different pricing packages. CC runs at $US 50/month and I think are running at $US 10/month, which is one heck of a good deal.

[Colin Southern]

If you've been driving a Toyota Corolla would you "benefit" from upgrading to a Ferrari Testarosa?

I'm another Adobe CC subscriber - it's insanely good value in my opinion.

[dabhand]

Randall

I guess it depends on how much you intend to post process; what style of photography you are interested in - colour / mono / abstract / portrait / etc; what plugins you currently use; what other applications you have in your editing suite and how much time you are willing to invest in learning the complexities of another application - and of course, how much money you are willing to invest !

I use Adobe CS6 - it does all I want to do so I see no reason for investing in the subscription Adobe CC - The subscription model is new and I'd like to see how it pans out a bit down the line before I invest, if at all as I actually do more and more in Lightroom + the NIK suite (which also works with CS6 and I believe with Paintshop).

[Stagecoach]

Randall,

I used Corel PSP for a while and then changed to PS Elements. My reason for changing was that there was far more information and people talking about the Adobe product which assisted my learning than for the Corel product. Corel PSP was and still is as far as I'm aware a good product.

Are you thinking of changing because PSP does not do what you require to do, or, considering changing to assist your learning.

Grahame

[rpcrowe]

I use Photoshop CS6 and took advantage of a sale that greatly reduced the price of the last boxed sets of CS6 that Adobe was selling off. I think Photoshop is a great product although I have added NIK Software and OnOne Photo Site, both of which I also bought on sale (Is a bit of my Scottish heritage sneaking through this post?).

I really think that CS6 plus the two plug-ins will last me for the rest of my life (since I am an old geezer). However, I may consider upgrading the plug-ins before I am living on the "other side of the grass"

[CanadianJake]

Thanks so much for all the input. I enjoy PSP but looking at changing programs to a Photoshop family - leaning towrds Lightroom now. I enjoy experimenting with RAW Files.

[Glenn NK]

Thanks so much for all the input. I enjoy PSP but looking at changing programs to a Photoshop family - leaning towrds Lightroom now. I enjoy experimenting with RAW Files.

Don't know if you are aware of this, but the nice thing about LR is that none of the edits affect the original RAW; all edits are stored in a sidecar file. So if you want to start over on the PP of an image, just click on RESET and you're back to the original unaltered RAW file.

[davidedric]

Or click on any point in the history and you are right back there. Just be aware that if you then make changes, you lose the following edits. Virtual Copies get you almost the best of both worlds.

[Colin Southern]

Don't know if you are aware of this, but the nice thing about LR is that none of the edits affect the original RAW; all edits are stored in a sidecar file. So if you want to start over on the PP of an image, just click on RESET and you're back to the original unaltered RAW file.

And ACR / Photoshop is EXACTLY the same. I'm not getting at you Glenn, but I'm totally flummoxed as to why people keep mentioning this as a so-called "advantage" of LR. Both LR and ACR are parametric editors (which additionally, use the same engine). Admittedly, once you get into the pixel-based editing of Photoshop "proper" that changes, but at that point you're into territory that LR can't match anyway (assuming that any editing up to that point was done in ACR) (in terms of image editing, there's nothing LR can do that ACR can't).

[Shadowman]

I must be the only one making multiple copies of one edit. Usually I save a new copy after each major edit, that way I can go keep the 2nd revision intact and go back to the original if I decide to change course later on.

[Colin Southern]

I must be the only one making multiple copies of one edit. Usually I save a new copy after each major edit, that way I can go keep the 2nd revision intact and go back to the original if I decide to change course later on.

In ACR you just use snapshots for that.

[Shadowman]

In ACR you just use snapshots for that.

Nice, I just found a link on how to access the function.

http://www.deke.com/content/acr-52s-...tment-features

[Colin Southern]

Nice, I just found a link on how to access the function.

http://www.deke.com/content/acr-52s-...tment-features

I've always just clicked the snapshots button

[Black Pearl]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs - Colin I never knew SnapShot was there in ACR, I use it in the main programme all the time so that is a brilliant bit of info.

Thanks

[Colin Southern]

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs - Colin I never knew SnapShot was there in ACR, I use it in the main programme all the time so that is a brilliant bit of info.

Thanks

No worries - I first heard about it reading an earlier edition of Real World Camera RAW

[davidedric]

And ACR / Photoshop is EXACTLY the same. I'm not getting at you Glenn, but I'm totally flummoxed as to why people keep mentioning this as a so-called "advantage" of LR.

Hi Colin,

I only have access to the cut down ACR in PSE. Do you happen to know how much of Lightroom's 5.3 "Develop" functionality is offered in the latest ACR (8?). Hope this helps the OP and other readers.

Dave

[Colin Southern]

Hi Colin,

I only have access to the cut down ACR in PSE. Do you happen to know how much of Lightroom's 5.3 "Develop" functionality is offered in the latest ACR (8?). Hope this helps the OP and other readers.

Dave

Hi Dave,

I'm not a LR user, but I would think "all of it", since it's the same engine.

[jcuknz]

I started with JASC PSP and later got PS7 and CS and didn't like the way they were arranged so it was no loss to me for what I do that I lost them in a computer crash. Currently using PSP16.

[RonBates312]

PaintShop Pro in my opinion. It is easier to learn and use if you are a beginner, and with new upgrades it gives you much more features then Photoshop, and also, you have the one time fee instead of monthly/yearly fees you get with Photoshop..
If you choose to buy it, I suggest checking this page: http://www.corel.com/en/pages/coupons/ where you can always find a good discount for the product Good luck with editing