Likelihood to Recommend Corel PaintShop Pro is well suited for photographers wanting to adjust photos and also for designers who want to create designs from scratch, working in layers and merging various elements. Due to slow load times, Corel PaintShop Pro is not well suited when you only have a few small tasks to do and when a lightweight alternative will do the job just as well (e.g. cropping and red-eye removal).
Read full review Pixelied is an online graphic design suite that makes it easy to create posters, ads, and branded designs for blogs, social media, and other publishing platforms. I am utilizing Pixelied to promote my social media accounts and to get thumbnails created for my YouTube channel. I use the photo filters to adjust the color of my photos, the mockup generator to piece together images with different backdrops, and the stock images and vector elements collection to add more detail and dimension to my designs. The templates allow me to create banners, image posters, and quotes. I found it easy to use because I could edit my own content without having to learn advanced design features. The templates helped me get started quickly and had everything I needed, from fonts down to icons. The photo filters were fun—they gave me an idea of how photos would look with different colors or patterns applied before I actually used them on my final designs. The only thing I didn't like about this tool was that adding images could slow down a layout if there were too many of them at once (like when you're trying to make a collage).
Read full review Pros AI photo correction is an excellent new addition The before an after side by side feature we use everyday The undo feature is one I particularly like Read full review Create posters for social media promotional and commercial ads. Design banners, visual components, and posters for websites and mobile applications. Create thumbnails, end screens, intro and outro animations, and graphics for YouTube. For social media, create motivational and inspiring posters and visual stories with quotations and text. Read full review Cons I have the 2018 version and every now and again upgrade ads will pop up in the bottom right of my screen which I find rather annoying How to save your work and where it gets saved is confusing. It took me a while to realize that projects were saved in "pspimage" files. The knowledge base article “The Basics Of Saving Files In PaintShop Pro” did not mention pspfiles. They also have the concept of workspaces, but I eventually realized that this is not where your work is saved. I find that a tool called paint.net is massively easier to use, but, then again, paint.net has far fewer features. I think an option in PaintShop Pro for temporarily switching down the functionality and interface to resemble paint.net would be a useful feature, so users do not get blinded by the extensive interface. Read full review Performance can become sluggish, particularly when adding new photos or vector elements to the layout design. Pixelied can incorporate a broader assortment of creative stock assets, similar to Canva. The options for modifying the composition's color scheme, adding customized elements, and personalizing the brand can be enhanced. The basic options for moving, scaling, and rearranging layers and backgrounds should be accessible by right-clicking in the composition itself rather than through tool sets in the upper right sidebar. Read full review Alternatives Considered From an ROI perspective, we moved entirely away from PhotoShop because we could not justify the cost vs performance. Corel PaintShop Pro is simply more cost-effective and offers the same performance and tools.
Read full review Pixelied offers a more straightforward and brisk workflow for designing and editing images compared to
Canva and
VistaCreate . This is despite the fact that Pixelied has a somewhat more limited choice of stock photographs and vector elements, in addition to readymade design templates. Additionally, it lacks several fundamental features and functionalities, such as the capability to personalize the different layers and color themes. It also has a restricted number of color themes. Pixelied, in contrast to
InVideo and
OFFEO , does not yet have any animation or video editing features. However, it does have the capability to design image layouts that can serve as a base for video slideshows and presentations, and it does offer photo mockups. Pixelied is an alternative to 123rf that provides an in-built stock photo and vectors library that is included in the subscription price. Additionally, you do not have to pay an extra fee for each new image that you download. 123rf, on the other hand, is a dedicated website for licensing and downloading stock images; therefore, its collection and diversity are significantly more extensive than those of Pixelied.
Read full review Return on Investment Our website is better because of Corel PaintShop Pro Our brochures for tradeshows are much better due to PaintShop Pro Read full review My YouTube channel is attracting new viewers and subscribers because of the improved thumbnails created with Pixelied. I am able to prepare better visual presentations and proposals for clients, thus increasing my chances of project approval. I am able to design better ads and posters for promotional marketing campaigns across social media and my website. Read full review ScreenShots