And Paintshop Pro is my go-to editor for JPG (although I still prefer using LR for exposure and white balance and tint control). So Lightroom 6.1 is my primary RAW convertor, as I do no own any digital bodies not supported by that. better than paying subscription fees every month. When the version of Paintshop Pro gets to be about a year old, it drops in licensing price to about half the newer version. I feel that Elements and Paintshop Pro are good enough for RAW conversion by someone who does not have demanding needs for a more sophisticated RAW convertor (Photoshop or Lightroom), especially for someone wanting to try out the workflow without any added expense over the software they have been using for JPG editing.Īs a hobbyist photographer who does no graphic arts manipulation, I have never found the need for features in Photoshop. Elements and Painsthop Pro were both were less capable for RAW manipulation than Lightroom.no surprise, you get what you pay for. Paintshop Pro was more capable than Elements for RAW manifpulation. Many years ago I published on POTN comparisons of RAW conversion capabilities, comparing Elements RAW with Paintshop Pro RAW vs. When RAW file conversion was the rage, Elements came out with a limited RAW conversion set of capabilities, but I found them to be more limited than the RAW conversion that came with Paintshop Pro.

Yet I had never been very impressed with it enough to continue using Elements. I had tried free copies of Elements provided on complementary CDs provided via scanner purchases and other device purchases. The price back then was a very small fraction of what Adobe Photoshop cost. I have been using Paint Shop Pro from the days before Corel acquired it.

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