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Get Photoshop-like results for less with PaintShop® Pro 2018 Ultimate—including a faster, easier PaintShop Pro and an exclusive bonus collection of premium software you won’t find in Photoshop. Turn photos into works of art with Painter® Essentials™ 5, automatically correct images with Perfectly Clear 3 SE, and edit RAW photos quickly with Corel® AfterShot™ 3.
Get a complete set of professional image editing tools for photo adjustment and composition.
Find everything you need to produce a variety of impactful graphic design projects.
Easily transform your pictures into realistic paintings with Painter Essentials 5.
Restore details, color, and more lost by your camera with Perfectly Clear 3 SE.
Quickly learn professional-grade RAW photo editing with AfterShot 3.
Expand your creative capabilities with dozens of brushes, textures, and over 100 royalty-free backgrounds.
Only available in Ultimate
Discover this painting program’s unmatched photo-painting tools that will easily transform your pictures into impressive art right before your eyes. Or start sketching, drawing and painting from scratch with award-winning brushes that are custom selected for beginners. Explore a wide variety of painting styles, brushes and photo effects that let you create an authentic, hand-painted look every time.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Perfectly Clear has mastered the science of intelligent image correction. Restore details, color, and more lost by your camera with the proven, patented corrections in Perfectly Clear 3 SE. Create a custom look with robust, time-saving presets that let you control multiple adjustments with just one click—all without having to leave PaintShop Pro.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
You asked, and we listened! Enjoy an improved, easier-to-learn application with faster navigation and bigger icons. For a more streamlined workflow, we’ve added two new workspaces, Essentials and Complete, to match your level of expertise. Our new Welcome Tab is bursting with helpful tutorials and creative content to get you started.
Experience a faster, more efficient photo editing program. Thanks to you, our loyal users, we made some significant product improvements. We drastically reduced the launch time—by over 50% from the last version. We accelerated the speed of some of your favorite editing features. We also enhanced many of your most frequently used tools like Crop, Text, Selection, Clone, Gradient, Eraser and Dropper.
Design without boundaries. Take advantage of more creative content, from brushes and color palettes, to gradients, patterns and textures. PaintShop Pro 2018 offers you more creative options for the features you use most, expanding what’s possible with this powerful photo editing software.
PaintShop Pro is packed with so many powerful photo editing features that it's hard to list them all!
Enjoy a full-featured photo and design toolset to help you create just about anything with ease.
PaintShop Pro is packed with so many powerful photo editing features that it's hard to list them all!
Enjoy a full-featured photo and design toolset to help you create just about anything with ease.
Enjoy an exclusive bonus collection of premium photo software that you won't get with Photoshop. Painter Essentials 5, Perfectly Clear 3 SE, Corel AfterShot 3, and our Creative Collection make up the Bonus Pack, bringing you photo-painting, automatic image corrections, RAW photo editing, powerful batch processing, and more—in one complete photo collection.
Discover Painter Essentials 5’s photo-painting tools that will easily transform your pictures into impressive art right before your eyes. Or start sketching, drawing and painting from scratch with award-winning brushes that are custom selected for beginners. Explore a wide variety of painting styles, brushes and photo effects that let you create an authentic, hand-painted look every time.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Restore details, color, and more lost by your camera with the proven, patented image corrections in Perfectly Clear 3 SE. Create a custom look with robust, time-saving presets that let you control multiple adjustments with just one click—all without having to leave PaintShop Pro.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
Quickly learn professional-grade RAW photo editing and take control of very large photo collections with Corel AfterShot 3. Make easy corrections and enhancements, and save time with batch processing tools that let you apply adjustments to one or thousands of photos at once.
Only available in Ultimate (64-bit)
No one matters more to us than our loyal users! That’s why every improvement to PaintShop Pro 2018 was developed with you in mind. Based on requests from those who know best—PaintShop Pro users—we’ve made significant enhancements to your most frequently used tools, plus improved the performance and speed of the program. We’ve also simplified the user interface for a better overall user experience. Come see what’s new in your favorite photo editing software.
PaintShop Pro 2018 makes it easier to get started, to learn and to edit projects faster. A new Essentials Workspace, with less clutter and larger icons, has all the core tools you need for photo editing and design in a streamlined interface that’s easy to navigate.
Choose the new Complete Workspace and enjoy all the classic professional photo editing and graphic design features that sets PaintShop Pro apart from the rest. The Complete Workspace includes the Welcome, Manage, and Edit tabs for full photo management and access to pro-level editing and design tools.
Now, you’ll have more control over features, functionality, and customization. Scroll bar too small? Make it bigger. Node size not right? Customize it. Lines not visible? Enlarge them.
Be more productive with larger, easier-to-see icons, and experiment with the new Quick Customize feature to pick and choose the tools you need on your toolbar.
Feel right at home when you launch PaintShop Pro. You can choose a workspace, start a new project, or access recent files. Explore tutorial videos, keyboard shortcuts, free and premium plugins, applications, scripts, brushes and more—all updated dynamically so you'll never run out of learning and creative content.
Based on direct user feedback, we've decreased PaintShop Pro's launch time by over 50% from the last version!
Cutting boot time in half means you can get start editing faster than ever.
Our most popular editing tool, Crop, just got better. Now you can choose from new Grid, Diagonal, Golden Ratio and Golden Spiral composition guides, along with other Crop tool enhancements, to help you bring out the best in your image.
Text is key to any design workflow. Our Text tool enhancements help save you design time with the new Superscript, Subscript and Text Justification options, all conveniently located in the Tool Options palette. You can also paste text into a shape and watch the text size dynamically adjust to the shape size. Just right click and choose 'Paste to Fit'.
Clone exactly what you want with the new Show Overlay option. Now when you use the Clone tool, you'll see a preview of the source pixels that you're about to apply, so you can get the results you want the first time. For seamless editing, you can hide or show the overlay with a simple shortcut key.
Explore 30 new gradients to enhance your creative designs, and enjoy better results with improvements to the Gradient Fill tool. Now you can recall your gradient line to edit an existing gradient.
All of PaintShop Pro 2018’s tools benefit from new document-aware slider values, so that your tool’s max width and height reflect the size of the image you are working on.
A new Sample and Fill icon in the Tool Options palette allows you to copy the color and opacity of sampled pixels. The Dropper tool instantly turns into the Flood Fill tool, allowing you to apply the copied properties to another area with a single click.
Our users wanted a more refined Eraser tool, and that's what they'll get! Now the Eraser tool has improved opacity control for better results.
Enjoy faster editing features, including a more responsive Depth of Field. Because it’s 4x faster than before, you can now create an area of focus in your photo nearly instantaneously. Text Wrapping is also significantly speedier, especially when using a gradient, pattern or texture as text.
Positioning a circle just got easier! Now PaintShop Pro's circle and ellipse selections have cross hairs that identify the point of origin, enabling you to center a selection over a specific area more precisely.
Get a better look! Preview the thumbnails in your Organizer palette at a larger size with one left click to select your thumbnail, and a single click of your space bar to invoke the Quick Preview window. It’s an efficient way to pick and choose the images you want to work with.
Choosing the right colors for your design is imperative, as color can make or break your artwork. Now you can apply inspiring color combinations from color palettes found in the Materials palette. Color palettes save you time and effort in picking and applying colors, and ensure your colors complement each other.
Download Content GuideDiscover 30 new brushes in PaintShop Pro 2018. From Lightning and Fireball, to Sparkler, Sunburst and Fur, our new brushes give your creations something extra, and save you time by eliminating the need draw individual design elements yourself.
Download Content GuideEnjoy 75 new gradients, patterns and textures to expand your creative potential. Download patterns and textures from the Welcome tab and they’ll appear in the Materials palette along with the new gradients. Whether you are looking for a marble or brick texture, a floral or geometric pattern, or a gradient that mimics a perfect sunset, you'll discover all this and more in PaintShop Pro 2018.
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Enhance photos with a complete set of professional image editing tools for photo adjustment and composition. Enjoy the powerful, layer-based editing capabilities you’ll find in Photoshop—only more affordable and subscription free.
Choose from a variety of preset effects organized into style categories such as Artistic, Film Styles, Black & White and Landscape.
PaintShop Pro’s Retro Lab will help you achieve vintage-look photos by applying old school color and contrast inspired by early lo-fi cameras.
Quickly and easily add unique color gradient effects to your images to simulate a graduated filter effect.
Play with depth of field in your photos or apply bokeh effects to keep parts of the image in focus and the rest blurred. PaintShop Pro 2018 delivers a 4x faster Depth of Field feature!
Enjoy several handy selection tools that make it fast and easy to adjust or retouch one area of a photo, or to copy a portion of a photo and paste it onto another image. New improvements to selections allow you to more precisely center a selection over a specific area.
Use content-aware editing tools, like Magic Move and Magic Fill, to automatically fill the empty area when you move or remove an object from your image, so it matches the surrounding background. Try the Object Remover or Clone Brush to get rid of imperfections.
Use the Fade Correction tool to restore the color and contrast of faded photos and the Scratch Remover to repair unsightly cracks in tattered photos to make them look new again.
Use the Red Eye tool to quickly and easily replace the red color in your model’s pupil with a dark gray color, restoring a natural look.
Find everything you need to produce a variety of impactful graphic design projects. Design with layers, text, brushes, gradients, drawing and painting tools to create original cards, collages, banners, social media images and more.
PaintShop Pro includes all the tools you need to get started quickly and increase your skills with every project.
Connect by sharing your photos with loved ones or the world using PaintShop Pro’s built-in social media features.
Discover this painting program’s unmatched photo-painting tools that will easily transform your pictures into impressive art right before your eyes.
Only available in Ultimate
Perfectly Clear has mastered the science of intelligent image correction. Restore details, color, and more lost by your camera with the proven, patented corrections in Perfectly Clear 3 SE.
Only available in Ultimate
Based on user feedback, we’ve created a better and faster editing experience, including a Welcome Tab with tutorials and creative content to get you started, faster navigation, bigger icons, and two new workspaces.
Enjoy significant product improvements where they matter most. A 50% shorter launch time, accelerated speed of your favorite editing features, and tool enhancements to Crop, Text, Selection, Clone, Gradient, Eraser and Dropper.
Find more ways to design without boundaries using a variety of creative content, versatile brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and realistic textures.
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PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate |
PaintShop Pro 2018 |
PaintShop Pro X9 Ultimate |
PaintShop Pro X9 |
PaintShop Pro X8 Ultimate |
| Corel® Painter Essentials™ 5 — Turn your photos into works of art with this painting program’s unmatched photo-painting tools. | |||||
| Perfectly Clear 3 by Athentech Imaging — Apply robust, one-click image corrections with award-winning intelligent photo correction technology. | Perfectly |
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| Corel® AfterShot™ 3 — Quickly adjust and manage even large photo collections, and enhance RAW files. | AfterShot™ 2 |
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| Corel Creative Collection — Includes dozens of brushes, textures and royalty-free backgrounds. | |||||
| NEW Essentials and Complete workspaces — Choose from two workspaces to work in, tailored to suit your workflow or skill level. | |||||
| Improved! Tool efficiency — Crop, Text, Selection, Clone, Gradient, Eraser and Dropper, have been improved based on user feedback for a more efficient editing experience. | |||||
| NEW Faster boot time — Get started on the right foot with a 50% quicker launch time. | |||||
| NEW Color Palettes — Choose from predefined harmonious color schemes, to save you time and effort in selecting and applying colors. | |||||
| NEW More brushes — Discover 30 new brushes for more creative options. | |||||
| NEW Gradients, Patterns and Textures — Enjoy 75 new gradients, patterns and textures - expanding your creative potential. | |||||
| NEW Quick Customize — Pick and choose the tools you want on your Tools toolbar, and search for any tool using a handy alphabetical search. | |||||
| Improved! More customization and control — Customize the size of icons, scroll bars, nodes and lines to improve visibility and ease of use. | |||||
| Improved! Feature performance — Enjoy faster editing features, including a more responsive Depth of Field and quicker Text Wrapping. | |||||
| NEW Welcome tab — Discover learning materials, free and premium plugins, applications, scripts, brushes and more in a new, friendly tabbed interface. | |||||
| NEW Quick Preview — Get a better look! Preview the thumbnails in your Organizer palette at a larger size. | |||||
| Project templates — Build personalized greetings, brochures and more, faster than ever with project templates. | |||||
| Screenshot — Capture and edit screenshots all in one place. | |||||
| Gradient Fill tool — Easily adjust gradients by dropping a gradient directly onto an image and dragging nodes to alter it. | |||||
| Export Edit History — Document and share your edits to a specific photo or project. | |||||
| Support for Windows Real-Time Stylus — Enjoy enhanced stylus performance with improved stylus and graphics tablet support. | |||||
| Guided Tour — Be successful sooner with a first-time walkthrough of PaintShop Pro's interface and key features. | |||||
| Text wrapping — Instantly wrap text inside a vector shape or selection for new creative options. | Improved performance |
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| Magic Move — Select the person or object to move and drag it to a new position. The empty area left behind is filled automatically. | |||||
| Lens correction — Easily correct distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations. | |||||
| 4K monitor support — An enhanced interface is compatible with Ultra High DPI displays. | Bigger icons |
Bigger icons |
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| Magic Fill — Easily erase an unwanted part of your photo and replace it with a seamlessly matching background. | |||||
| Text and Shape Cutting tools — Instantly create photo objects by using a text or shape to clip underlying photos or imagery. | |||||
| Quick selection tools — Drag a selection window over the desired spot with Auto Selection. Or try the Smart Selection brush to quickly make a selection by brushing over the target area. | |||||
| Video learning — Watch and learn from an in-app library of helpful video tutorials. | Find in new Welcome tab |
Find in new Welcome tab |
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| Plugin support — Enjoy support for 64-bit versions of third-party plugins and Adobe Photoshop plugins. | |||||
| Places — Map your photos to real-world locations. | |||||
| People — Use face recognition technology to tag the people in your photos. | |||||
| HDR photo merge — Blend multiple exposures to create striking High Dynamic Range (HDR) photos. | |||||
| Retro Lab™ — Apply old-school effects inspired by early lo-fi cameras. | |||||
| Instant Effects palette — Transform photos by applying dozens of unique creative effects inspired by vintage photographs, film styles and more. | |||||
| Sharing options — Upload your photos to Facebook, Flickr, and Google+. | |||||
| Scripts — Speed up repetitive tasks using the scripting engine and guide for batch edits. | Silent scripts by default |
Silent scripts by default |
Silent scripts by default |
Silent scripts by default |
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| Selective Focus — Mimic the effect of expensive tilt-shift lenses and turn a scene into a miniature world. | |||||
| Fill light and clarity — Brighten shadowy areas of a photo while preserving the rest of the image. | |||||
| RAW Lab — Make non-destructive adjustments to your RAW images. Easily restore detail in overly exposed areas, correct white balance and more. | |||||
| Batch processing — Adjust one photo, then apply to multiple photos. | Batch Smart Photo Fix |
Batch Smart Photo Fix |
Batch Smart Photo Fix |
Batch Smart Photo Fix |
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| Photo management tools — Catalog, search, rate and tag your photos so you can quickly find your favorites. | |||||
| Object Extractor — Quickly and precisely isolate and remove from an image. | |||||
| Visible Watermark — Trademark and brand your photos. | |||||
| Color Changer tool | |||||
| Adjustment Layers | |||||
| Makeover tools — Remove blemishes, whiten teeth, brighten eyes, paint on a tan, and thinify your subjects. | |||||
| Digital Camera Noise Removal & Chromatic Aberration Removal filters | |||||
| Straighten, Perspective & Lens Correction filters | |||||
| Cloning and Scratch Remover tools | |||||
| Vector drawing tools | |||||
| Web graphics: Image Optimizer, Rollover Creator and Image Slicer & Mapper. |
Why pay year after year for something you can easily own? Get affordable, subscription-free photo editing software with Photoshop-like results. Buy PaintShop Pro once and it’s yours in perpetuity at a lower cost. Get the professional power you want, plus the high-quality tools you need to take your photos and designs to the next level.
Features |
PaintShop Pro 2018 Ultimate |
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017‡ |
| Pricing model | Perpetual license (software is licensed forever, for one price) | Monthly subscription |
| Suggested retail price | $99.99 USD | $119.88 USD (1 year subscription total) |
| Price for subsequent years | $0 USD | $119.88 USD |
| Total after 3 years | $99.99 USD | $359.65 USD |
Features |
PaintShop Pro 2018 |
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017‡ |
| Pricing model | Perpetual license (software is licensed forever, for one price) | Monthly subscription |
| Suggested retail price | $79.99 USD | $119.88 USD (1 year subscription total) |
| Price for subsequent years | $0 USD | $119.88 USD |
| Total after 3 years | $79.99 USD | $359.65 USD |
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Features |
PaintShop Pro 2018 |
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017‡ |
| Professional-quality bitmap and photo editing | ||
| Exclusive bonus collection of premium photo software | ||
| Vector graphics | ||
| Digital painting/drawing | ||
| Portraiture tools | ||
| Instant effects and filters | ||
| Levels and Curves | ||
| Screenshot | ||
| Supports RAW | ||
| Preset and custom Workspaces | ||
| XDM support including support for Intel RealSense | ||
| Compatible with PSD | (native Photoshop file format) |
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| Export Edit History | ||
| Text tools | ||
| High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools | (no dedicated HDR module; more steps than PSP) |
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| Quick adjustment | ||
| Clipping mask | (shape & text cutting) |
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| Content-aware fill (Magic Fill) | ||
| Quick Selection | ||
| Text wrapping | (in shape & in selection) |
(in shape) |
| Text Presets | ||
| Custom Canvases | (Artboards) |
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| Project Templates | ||
| Photo management | (separate app – Adobe Bridge) |
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| Face detection/recognition support | ||
| Geo-tagging support | ||
| Gradient Fill tool | ||
| Dual monitor mode | ||
| Stylus and graphics tablet support | ||
| Support for automation | (Scripts) |
(Actions) |
| Advanced scripting/automation | (using Python) |
(using AppleScript or VBScript) |
| Support for virtualization | ||
| Supports Photoshop plugins | (to version Adobe Plugin SDK ver 10) |
| In-app training | Award-winning in-app Learning Center | |
| In-app Guided Tour | ||
| Online training videos | ||
| Available 1-to-1 or 1-to-many paid training | ||
| Tech support | ||
| Online user communities | ||
| Free trial |
| Operating Systems | Windows | Windows, Mac, Online |
| Supported file formats | Import formats†AI, BMP, CAL, CALS, CGM, CLP, CMX*, CT, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, DRW*, EMF, EPS, GIF, HDP, HGL*, HPG*, IFF, IMG, J2C, J2K, JIF, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPS, JPX, MAC, MPO, MRW, MSP, PBM, PCD*, PCT, PCX, PDF, PGL*, PGM, PIC, PICT, PNG, PNS, PPM, PS, PSD, PSP (PSPimage files), RAS, RAW, RIF, RLE, SCT, SVG, SVGZ, TGA, TIF, UFO, WBM, WBMP, WDP, WEBP, WMF, WPG** Export formats†BMP, CAL, CALS, CLP, CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, AI, PS, GIF, HDP, WDP, IFF, IMG, JP2, J2C, J2K, JPC, JPX, JPG, JIF, JPE, JPEG, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PPM, PNG, PSD, PSP (PSPIMAGE FILES), RAS, RAW, RIF, RIFF, RLE, SCT, CT, JPS, PNS, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, WBM, WEBP, WMF |
Import/Export formats†Photoshop PSD, Large Document Format PSB, BMP, Cineon, CompuServe GIF, Photoshop DCS 1.0, Photoshop DCS 2.0, DICOM, Photoshop EPS, IFF format, JPEG, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, PCX, Photoshop PDF, Pixar, PNG, Portable Bit Map, Photoshop Raw, Scitex CT, Targa, TIFF, Wireless Bitmap, Photoshop 2.0 (Mac only), PICT (read only), PICT Resource (Mac only, can open only), Radiance 3D-related formats†3D Studio (import only), DAE (Collada), Flash 3D* (export only), JPS* (JPEG Stereo), KMZ (Google Earth 4), MPO* (Multi-Picture format), U3D, Wavefront|OBJ |
| RAW file support | Support for over 450 camera models with the following extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, ERF, K25, KDC, MEF, MOS, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F | Yes, hundreds of cameras supported via Adobe Camera RAW |
| Brush formats supported | Yes. PaintShop Pro Brush (.pspbrush), Adobe Photoshop Brush (.abr), Jasc Brush (.jbr) | Photoshop brushes only |
| Audio & video formats supported | None by default (handled separately via Corel Photo Video Bundle) | Audio import formats†: AAC*, AIFF*, M2A*, M4A*, MP2*, MP3* Video import formats†: 264*, 3GP, 3GPP*, AVC*, AVI, F4V*, FLV*, MOV (QuickTime), MPE*, MPEG 1, MPEG 4, MPEG-2 if a decoder is installed (eg. with an Adobe video suite), MTS*, MXF*, R3D*, TS*, VOB* Video export formats: DPX*, MOV (QuickTime), MP4 |
‡Adobe®, Creative Cloud® and Photoshop® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
‡Pricing current as of July 2017 and is subject to change. Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 is available for a subscription cost of $119.88 USD per year and includes Adobe Lightroom CC. Pricing obtained from https://creative.adobe.com/plans
RAW file support for over 450 camera models, including the following file extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, K25, KDC, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F (see all RAW camera support below)
* Supported on 32-bit installs only
** WPG (WordPerfect Vector only) is not supported on 64-bit. WordPerfect Bitmap is supported on 64-bit.
Learn more about RAW image editing.
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