It hasn’t got all the features that Photoshop enjoys, but then again, it doesn't cost nearly as much, and the tools it does have, especially the ones in this update are most impressive. Final verdictĪll in all, Corel Paintshop Pro 2020 is a solid piece of software, which allows you to improve photographs and create complex composites with ease.

This isn’t a complaint specific to Corel, but to any publisher who does this. It’s just hard to swallow, having paid good money for an app, to be confronted with a pay wall to gain access to more content. Sadly there are precious few add ons that are free, but the brushes are mostly cheap enough to give them a try. New brushes and palettes have also been introduced, but not all are bundled into the app by default - in order to get them, you need to access Corel’s online store (which you can do from Paintshop Pro’s welcome screen), and see everything that’s available - for a price. You can even choose which artist work you wish your image to take after using AI.The built-in online store gives you access to additional content - for a price (Image credit: Corel) If you have 360º images be amazed not only with them but improve what this technology has given, so Planet like images can be created and if you try Magic Fill well its rather good.īut for sheer WOW try the ad on called Pic-to-Painting and while this ad on is large anyone wanting to impress should see their photos become paintings, very impressive. If however you use a Tablet there are updated features that mean using a stylus is simple and yes I did try this on a very recent Tablet in for review and it’s almost like painting with a brush – except your results can be reversed - there are also improved 4K features. While a lot of decent digital cameras come with some quite acceptable manipulation software this quite often stops with adjusting colour, brightness and saturation if you want to go further then a package like PaintShop Pro is what you need.Įven then there is more that you can download, like Creative Content and new features here include lot of different brushes, colour palettes, picture tubes and lots more gradients and patterns.Įven if like me you are using a Windows 7 PC that is getting on the performance is better than in previous versions with near instant automatic photo fixes, and according to Corel over 50 fixes based on user feedback.

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