Particleshop alternative install#
Particleshop alternative upgrade#
Particleshop alternative windows 10#

In 2021, PaintShop added a touch-friendly photography mode that includes a split before-and-after view, handy for seeing the effects of your edits. The Ultimate version adds a Highlight Reel video slideshow-creating feature (similar to the one in Corel VideoStudio), MultiCam Capture Lite for screen and webcam video presentations, and Painter Essentials 8 for simple drawing, sketching, and painting on the PC. New brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes, and a Frame tool for placing images inside shapes round out the updates. Corel also added support for the HEIC and HEIF file types that iPhones use and an updated Welcome and startup experience. New features for the 2022 version include AI Background Replacement, AI Portrait Mode, and a much improved AI Style Transfer.

Particleshop alternative windows 10#

I installed PaintShop Pro on my test PC running Windows 10 Pro with a Core i7 6700 CPU, 16GB RAM, and an Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card.Ĭorel puts a lot of effort into improving and adding features to the venerable image-editing software, taking feedback from user advisory boards and program telemetry to decide what people want. After this step, the program asked me to enter an email to create an account, which only requires confirmation by responding to an automatically generated email.Ĭorel offers downloadable effect packs, too, such as ParticleShop brushes and ColorScript color effects (for $14.99 and $4.99, respectively). You have to choose whether you want 32-bit, 64-bit, or both-the last means you’ll be compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit plug-ins.

Particleshop alternative install#

You first install a small downloader program that completes the installation. PaintShop Pro runs on Windows 10 (recommended version 1903 or later with the latest Service Pack (64-bit editions). Photoshop Elements ($99), Adobe’s consumer-level photo editing software, requires no subscription, but it has more of a hobbyist feel as opposed to the company’s pro-level offerings. For $9.99 per month, you get both Photoshop and Lightroom, but Illustrator starts at $19.99 per month, when you prepay for a year. The one-time purchase options are a good fit for those who still resent Adobe’s move to a subscription-only model for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator. This gets you all updates but no cloud storage, such as you get with Adobe’s subscriptions. PaintShop Pro is available from the Microsoft Store app on a subscription basis at $7.99 per month. You’ll need Ultra to get the AI HDR Studio and Sea-to-Sky Workspace (see below), PhotoMirage animation, and more brushes. The Ultimate edition ($99.99, $79.99 upgrade) throws in more software-AfterShot (Corel’s photo workflow app for importing and organizing digital photos), Corel Painter Essentials, PhotoMirage Express (converts still shots to animations) and more brushes and backgrounds.

Particleshop alternative upgrade#

PaintShop Pro 2022 is available directly from Corel or via retail for $79.99 (or $59.99 as an upgrade from any previous version) it’s frequently discounted.