Corel PaintShop Pro vs. QuarkXPress

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).

I used QuarkXPress to maintain a proper page layout for the UI which I receive from a UIUX developer. I develop Graphic Illustrations on the digital canvas to create creative content on the page design set and to develop designer headlines and sub-headlines where writers and editors can amend the text and place the copped images.

• Crop
• Straighten
• Scratch repair
• General retouch

Incentivized

• Excellent project conversion into PDFs and digital formats.
• Incredibly user friendly and intuitive to use.
• Works seamlessly with our Adobe Suite of programs.

Incentivized

• I would like to see better smart cropping, we have the need for use in our carrying and travel cases for foam cut-outs. This requires a picture to be taken of the product and then outlined. The latest Apple update does a much better job of it than Corel. A definite need in our business

Incentivized

• Currently does not have a way to open really old archived QuarkXPress files.
• Text manipulation could be expanded upon (ie be able to warp or distort text).
• Be able to output files in InDesign format.

Incentivized

It's what I am most familiar with.

Incentivized

I previously tagged Corel PaintShop Pro as an 8, but I'm moving on up to 10. I've been a user for many years. I always purchase the updates when they come out, and they have consistently gotten better with each release. Corel PaintShop Pro provides features that I haven't seen in other similar apps at this price point - alot of bang for the buck. If Corel keeps making and updating this program, I will absolutely keep purchasing it.

Incentivized

This is an industry standard. It is intuitive and pretty simple. I have been using it for 40 years and by no means do I use its potential, rather it does just what I want it to do.

Incentivized

Always available when I need to use it

Incentivized

I would say that the program loads a LITTLE slow, but that's not a problem, considering everything that likely needs to load in the background for it to do what it does. Once running, the program performs very acceptably.

Incentivized

We have never used or needed Support

Incentivized

Great product and great solution for our photo re-touching and web work as an enhancement to CorelDraw

Incentivized

I find Corel PaintShop Pro to be a lot more user friendly and affordable.

Incentivized

QuarkXPress simply blew the competition out of the water when it came to pricing and scalability in our business. Every employee that uses Quark always speaks very highly about using the software. We are not a large company but, the amount of money saved on the cost of each license was about 60% when compared to the competitors' products.

Incentivized

No contract terms. This is a standalone desktop app. Pricing is very affordable. Don't change a thing.

Incentivized

So far, any use I've had with paintshop pro is already in the standard scope

Incentivized

• Our website is better because of Corel PaintShop Pro
• Our brochures for tradeshows are much better due to PaintShop Pro

Incentivized

• On different computers, it does crash.
• Issues with accidental (program) photo overrides.
• Corrupted photo formats.