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Adobe PhotoShop vs. Corel PaintShop Pro

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Adobe PhotoShop

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Photoshop is the best known graphics product on the market.

    $20

    per month

    Corel PaintShop Pro

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APaintShop Pro is an all-in-one photo editor with advanced photo management, editing & creative tools that deliver everything a photo & design enthusiast needs, from Corel Corporation.N/A
    Pricing
    Adobe PhotoShopCorel PaintShop Pro
    Editions & Modules
    Single App
    $20.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Adobe PhotoShopCorel PaintShop Pro
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Adobe PhotoShopCorel PaintShop Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Adobe
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Adobe PhotoShop stacks up well against most other products such as Corel PaintShop Pro. Adobe PhotoShop's licensing can get annoying and tricky, but in the long run, based on Adobe PhotoShop's extensive history, it's the go to product for editing. You can save money with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    [Adobe] Photoshop has much more features and abilities compared to its competitors, and often is the first to create a new feature. There is a large learning curve for Photoshop, but for folks that spend years learning Adobe products, it ends up being the most intuitive …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Many, many years ago we were using Corel Paint Shop. It's UI is friendly, but once we were trained on PhotoShop and it's robust tools and easy UI, we fell in love and never looked back. There wasn't really anything wrong with Corel, it was more that PhotoShop just offered more.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe PhotoShop
    Photoshop is the benchmark for manipulation of graphics — other software always tries to mimic what PS can do, but can not produce it entirely. Although good alternatives do not give Photoshop the rich properties and seamless functionality of applications, such as GIMP, Corel …
    Incentivized
    Alludo
    Chose Corel PaintShop Pro
    I find Corel PaintShop Pro to be a lot more user friendly and affordable.
    Incentivized
    Chose Corel PaintShop Pro
    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.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Adobe PhotoShopCorel PaintShop Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (190 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (30 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (54 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)