This version is pretty much the same as PSP9, except for some memory and cache leak fixes, which actually makes it the last “good” release of PSP and the version I'm recommending if you don't know which one to choose.
Paint Shop Pro 10 (2005) rebranded as Corel Paint Shop Pro X Minor improvements in the interface, such as tabbed documents The color palette is a bit more intuitive Improved the preset shapes tool by adding custom symmetric shapes For their technical complexity and sheer amount of different settings, the art media brushes deserve our interest. Sadly, it never got past the prototype phase. Though they they lacked realism and I never used them in any real work, the art media brushes were a good technical exercise, maybe a prototype for something better. The only genuinely new tool PSP9 introduced was the art media brush that simulated natural painting instruments: oil brushes, chalks, crayons, etc. Added a history palette to complement the recently added scripts and macros This last genuine JASC version tried to offer something new both to digital painters and photo editors. Though JASC was only months away from being taken over by Corel, they still managed to fit in some important things. Improved crop, zoom, selections, vector tools, line/shape toolsĪ huge list and I still feel like I've missed something. This enormous collection of photo filters created in 2003 has remained almost unchanged to this day. Added nearly 50 new effects, filters and photo adjustments, too many to list even the most important ones. advanced brush settings organized in a separate “brush variance palette” new basic settings: thickness, blend mode, rotation, presets, brush styles new material palette (with more advanced settings for gradients and patterns) There's a completely new interface, the core structure is the basis for all following versions and most of the toolbars, palettes, icons and menus have remained untouched to this day.Īll toolbars and palettes have been rebuilt, the most important improvements being: My hat goes off to the people who summoned up the courage to go through with such a task. It has been rebuilt from scratch, and the result is simply spectacular. This is the most revolutionary PSP version to date. Further improved customizability and added new general program settings Added a total of 32 new effects and organized them into a separate “Effects” menu. An explosion of new photo, 3d, artistic, geometric and texture effects. Added advanced color adjustments like channel mixer, color balance, levels, etc. Added an image slicer and PNG optimizer Improved the line and shape tools, added a scratch remover tool Introduced textures, patterns and gradients as color styles Rebuilt the color palette, added new “effect” and “photo” toolbars The most noticeable improvement was the new color palette. Version 7 made PSP ideal for web-graphics and built the core package of image filters. Added new options to General program preferences.
Increased customizability by adding right-click options to toolbars Brush quality and speed of rendering has been improved. Added a specialized GIF and JPEG optimizer Introduced watermarking and picture frames Added dozens of new effects and deformations Improvements in the tool options and layer palette Increased maximum brush, feather and zoom values Compared to PSP 5 it has almost the same look, but has major improvements in the layer and tool options palettes. This version added new concepts such as vectors and made a step towards web graphics.
I took the time to install trial versions of the last eight Paint Shop Pro releases and wrote down my impressions: