I definitely found this more appealing to my taste. More experienced users will, no doubt, prefer the Complete interface with its subdued dark grey appearance. This interface has been designed to suit the novice user coming to the product for the first time. The Essentials interface, by default appearing with a rather dazzling white colour scheme, adopts a simplistic approach with tabs for switching between Home and Edit view. These interfaces are entitled Essentials or Complete. Along with the faster loading of the product, Corel has added a choice of two main interfaces for use with Paint Shop Pro. As well as the faster loading speed, Corel has made some other changes to the software both in its performance and appearance. While the loading does appear faster I would hesitate to confirm the 50% increase in this speed. Having both versions installed does allow you to switch between the two when the appropriate situation occurs.Ĭorel claims that this latest version of Paint Shop Pro loads 50% faster than the previous version. However this device was not recognised by the 64-bit version of the product but it did allow me to load images that were of a larger size. The 32-bit Paint Shop Pro will offer greater compatibility with legacy devices such as my flatbed scanner. When installing Paint Shop Pro you are given the option of installing both the 32-bit and 64-bit version or just opting for a single version if you are running short of storage space.

Thus we have Corel Paint Shop Pro 2018 which is available in Standard and Ultimate versions of the product with the latter coming with a number of bonus items. Previously Corel has been using a combination of the Roman number “X” with a standard number but now the company has reverted to using a date identifier for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of this software. Now part of the Corel family, and renamed as Paint Shop Pro, this product has undergone a slight name change format with this latest version. This latter system was used by Robert Veil’s Paint Shop program. The product was released as Shareware where you try before you buy, or as in some cases try and continue to use without buying as the Shareware offering was sometimes based on an honour system. That was in August 1990 when Robert Veil released his graphics conversion utility. I can not state that I was totally surprised but it was a minor shock to realise that the subject matter of this next review, made its first appearance 27 years ago.

Corel paintshop pro 2018 review