Take your underwater and drone photography to new heights with the Sea-to-Sky™ workspace and level up your photo editing workflow with smarter tools powered by AI.
Extend the creative possibilities with the ultimate collection of photo editing and design software.
Instantly give your photos a unique HDR effect with an exclusive collection of presets powered by artificial intelligence. Experiment with a variety of styles to enhance the finest details and bring out the best in all types of photography from close-up portraiture to scenic landscapes. AI HDR Studio is a hassle-free solution to correct, enhance and apply artistic flare to your photos in a matter of seconds.
Experience an all-new photo editing workspace designed to take your underwater and drone photography to new heights. Make seamless corrections and creative improvements with a custom set of tools and relive your most memorable moments to the fullest.
Become a digital artist with Painter Essentials 7. This easy-to-learn painting program will transform your photos into amazing oil, pastel, or impressionist works of art. Or learn to paint, draw and sketch from scratch in a welcoming environment, using pencils, pens, and particles.
Effortlessly transform any image into a mesmerizing animation in a matter of minutes with PhotoMirage Express. Bringing your photos to life is ridiculously easy and addictively fun, and sharing your masterpieces on social media is a breeze. Use PhotoMirage Express to create awe-inspiring photo animations that captivate, engage, and transfix.
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.
Expand your creative capabilities with dozens of brushes, textures, and over 100 royalty-free backgrounds. Enhance your photo projects with playful designs, flowers, sunsets, and more, along with an array of lively brushstrokes.
Highly effective features and tools powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning technology make creating something truly original, achievable.
Dramatically enlarge any photo without compromising resolution or visual quality. Let the power of PaintShop Pro magnify the finest details to create the perfect frame. Watch video
Easily remove artifacts and restore fine detail and original colors in JPEGs. Reverse distortion effects often caused during compression to reduce a file size in digital workflows. Watch video
Easily remove random variation of brightness and color in images commonly caused by low light environments. Quickly and easily clear up any unwanted noise so each photo is crisp and clear. Watch video
Transform your photos into stylized works of art with new presets designed to replicate famous artistic styles using a variety of digital media types. Watch video
Experience an all-new photo editing workspace designed to take your drone and underwater photography to new heights. Make seamless corrections and creative improvements with a custom set of tools and relive your most memorable moments to the fullest. Watch video
*Only in Ultimate
Explore the enhanced Photography Workspace designed for touch and Ultra HD 4K devices. Use the new Split View feature for a side-by-side comparison of your original image and your most recent edits. Focus exclusively on quick photo edits in a sleek and instinctive environment perfect for new users to learn and master in no time! Watch video
At the very core of PaintShop Pro is creativity. Which is why we’ve added new brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns, and picture tubes conveniently built into PaintShop Pro for you to explore. Creative Content Guide
Get exactly the results you want with PaintShop Pro’s innovative tools and features. Enjoy a full-featured photo and design toolset to help you create just about anything with ease.
Depend on a versatile range of professional image editing tools to make every shot, the best shot.
Easily crop areas of your photo to alter the focus using composition guides, Golden Ratio and Rule of Thirds. Resize with ease using one of several presets, or resize by pixels, percentage or print size. Restore and repair old photos with the Scratch Remover and Fade Correction tools to enhance contrast and color to faded photos.
Alter your photos using a wide variety of powerful adjustment tools, including Brightness and Contrast, Fill Light and Clarity, Fade Correction, White Balance, Hue and Saturation, Noise Removal, Vibrancy, Sharpening, color correction, and tonal levels and curves.
Isolate the area you want to select with a variety of Selection tools and enhance your selection with the Refine Brush. Automatically correct distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations in your photos with Lens Correction tools and use the Straighten tool to fix a crooked horizon, or the Perspective Correction tool to make a photo appear as though it was taken from a different angle.
Manage and save metadata in your RAW files with PaintShop Pro’s RAW Lab and correct problem areas, such as recovering blown highlights or adjusting shadows. Combine several photos of the same scene with different exposures to create one stunning HDR photo. Edit photographs taken with a 360° degree camera by straightening a photo with rotation or make it appear levelled. Remove and automatically replace a tripod or produce an interesting ‘planet-like’ effect.
Reduce repetition and accelerate complex photo-editing actions with Scripts. Record a series of edits as a script to apply to any photo, anytime. Automate edits on multiple photos at once with batch processing like adding a watermark, picture frame, or simply resizing.
PaintShop Pro is packed with creative tools for creative people.
PaintShop Pro is packed with creative tools for creative people.
Explore new tools powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve your photos in no time.
Explore new tools powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve your photos in no time.
PaintShop Pro is packed with everything you need to create just about anything with ease.
PaintShop Pro values not just your creativity, but also the practical aspects of saving, transferring, organizing, and sharing your assets.
Easily import, save, and export in a variety of supported file formats so you won't experience any disruptions.
Preview, organize, and streamline your photo-editing workflow in PaintShop Pro’s Manage workspace. Add keyword tags to your photos, create catalogs, make edits to multiple photos at once, and review metadata and file information.
Choose from a library of helpful video tutorials in the Welcome tab, or visit PaintShop Pro’s learning page for even more assistance. Get extra tips and tricks from PaintShop Pro’s award-winning Learning Center.
Support for all of the latest mainstream and WinTab-aware graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink, so whether you’re drawing, painting, applying adjustments or effects, you can use a pen for more control.
Easily migrate your content from previous versions, for a seamless upgrade experience. Plugins, scripts, brush tips, color palettes, gradients, patterns, textures, and effects that you've previously installed.
Extend the power of PaintShop Pro with 64-bit third-party plugins including Adobe plugins or brushes, Topaz Labs, Nik Collection by DXO and so many more. Import PSD files and export to Photoshop to work effortlessly across platforms.
Ultimate 2021 |
Pro 2021 |
Ultimate 2020 |
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Applications |
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| NEW! AI HDR Studio — Instantly give your photos a unique HDR effect with AI-powered presets. | ||||
| NEW! Sea-to-Sky™ Workspace — All-new, touch-ready workspace with custom toolset to enhance drone and underwater photography. | ||||
| PhotoMirage™ Express — Effortlessly transform any image into a mesmerizing animation in a matter of minutes. | ||||
| Corel Painter Essentials™ 7 — Learn to paint, draw, and sketch from scratch with this easy to use painting program. | Painter Essentials 7 |
Painter Essentials 6 |
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| Corel AfterShot™ 3 — Quickly adjust and manage even large photo collections, and enhance RAW files. | ||||
| Corel Creative Collection – Includes dozens of brushes, textures and royalty-free backgrounds. | ||||
Features |
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| NEW! AI Style Transfer — Transform photos into stylized works of art with artificial intelligence. | ||||
| NEW! AI Denoise — Remove random variation of brightness or color in images. | ||||
| NEW! AI Artifact Removal — Get rid of JPEG compression artifacts in photos and restore details and colors. | ||||
| NEW! AI Upsampling — Enlarge any photo without compromising resolution or visual quality. | ||||
| NEW! Split View — Included with Photography Workspace to quickly view original vs after applying effects. | ||||
| NEW! Brushes, color palettes, gradients, patterns and picture tubes — Expand your creativity! | ||||
| IMPROVED! Photography Workspace — Touch-ready, simple yet sleek, workspace that allows you to focus exclusively on quick photo edits. | New options |
New options |
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| Multiple Workspaces — Find a workspace that suits your photo editing needs and style. | Sea-to-Sky™, Photography, Essentials, and Complete |
Photography, Essentials and Complete |
Photography, Essentials and Complete |
Photography, Essentials and Complete |
| Copy and Paste Layer Styles — With one simple click, you can easily replicate style settings from one layer to another. | ||||
| Text Tools — Quick and efficient text editing, formatting, aligning and rendering. Work with text on a path or within a shape with text wrap. | ||||
| SmartClone — Easily merge elements from multiple images and seamlessly integrate them into one. | ||||
| Refine Brush — Select an object with extreme precision and accuracy, down to a single strand of hair. | ||||
| Depth of Field — Adjust focus areas in an image with precision. | ||||
| Welcome tab — Discover learning materials, free and premium plugins, applications, scripts, brushes and more in a new, friendly tabbed interface. | ||||
| Project templates — Build personalized greetings, brochures and more, faster than ever with project templates. | ||||
| Quick Customize — Pick and choose the tools you want on your Tools toolbar, and search for any tool using a handy alphabetical search. | ||||
| Customizable UI text size — Increase text size for better visibility. Choose Small or Large text from the User Interface menu. | ||||
| Cloning tools — Cover parts of an image by copying colors or patterns from a neighboring area. Try the SmartClone, which allows you to easily merge elements from multiple images and integrate them into one. | ||||
| Crop toolbar — Enhance photos right from your Crop toolbar. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Screenshot tools — Capture and edit screenshots all in one place. | ||||
| Text and Shape Cutting tools — Instantly create photo objects by using a text or shape to clip underlying photos or imagery. | ||||
| Photo management tools — Catalog, search, rate and tag your photos so you can quickly find your favorites. | ||||
| Makeover tools — Remove blemishes, whiten teeth, brighten eyes, paint on a tan, and thinify your subjects. | ||||
| Scratch Remover tools — Get rid of unwanted image scuffs, cracks and scratches. | ||||
| Vector drawing tools — Create any type of object, from simple lines and shapes, to complex illustrations. | ||||
| Magic Move and Magic Fill — Use content-aware editing tools to automatically fill the empty area when you move or remove an object from your image, so it matches the surrounding background. | ||||
| Lens correction — Easily correct distortions, vignetting and chromatic aberrations. | ||||
| Object Extractor — Quickly and precisely isolate and remove from an image. | ||||
| Digital Camera Noise Removal & Chromatic Aberration Removal filters — Eliminate what you don't need and preserve what you want to keep. | ||||
| 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 — Transform photos by applying dozens of unique creative effects inspired by vintage photographs, film styles and more. | ||||
| Scripts — Speed up repetitive tasks using the scripting engine and guide for batch edits. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Latest stylus and graphics tablet support — Pair PaintShop Pro with the latest mainstream and WinTab-aware graphics tablets, as well as Windows Ink. | ||||
| Autosave — Gain more control over the frequency of autosaving, and by default, you'll experience less disruptions. | ||||
| Seamless content and plugin migration — Easily migrate your content from previous versions, for a smooth upgrade experience. | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Plugin support — Enjoy support for 64-bit versions of third-party plugins and Adobe Photoshop plugins. | ||||
| 360° camera support — Straighten, rotate and flatten a 360° photo, and automatically remove the tripod from the image. Or create an interesting 'planet-like' effect. | ||||
| 4K monitor support — An enhanced interface is compatible with Ultra High DPI displays. | ||||
| Masks — Create masks to hide or show parts of a layer and to create special effects with precision. | ||||
| Layers — Use non-destructive layers to create composites with ease. | ||||
| One-click fixes & filters — One Step Photo Fix and Smart Photo Fix. | ||||
| Keyboard shortcuts — Quickly access frequently used tools with shortcuts. | ||||
PaintShop Pro 2021 |
® Adobe Photoshop CC 2020‡ |
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Pricing |
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| Pricing model | Perpetual license (software is licensed forever, for one price) |
Monthly subscription |
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| Suggested Retail Price (for 1 year subscription) | $79.99 |
$239.88 |
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| Price for subsequent years | $0 |
$239.88 |
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| Total after 3 years | $79.99 |
$719.64 or more |
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| Volume licensing price | 1 to 4 - $71.99 per unit |
$407.88 per unit |
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| Pricing | Yes (30 days) |
Yes (7 days) |
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Key Capabilities |
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| Professional-quality bitmap and photo editing | ||||
| Vector graphics | ||||
| Photo adjustment tools (White Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Fill Light/Clarity, Vibrancy and more) | ||||
| Photo Enhancements (AI noise reduction, artifact removal and upsampling) | (New AI features) |
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| Digital painting and drawing tools | ||||
| Multiple Workspaces | (New Sea-to-Sky Workspace with Ultimate) |
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| Content-aware tools (move and fill) | ||||
| Portraiture tools | ||||
| Levels and Curves | ||||
| Text tools | ||||
| Selection tools | ||||
| Style Transfer powered by artificial intelligence | ||||
| Instant effects and filters | ||||
| One-click photo fixes | ||||
| Screenshot tools | ||||
| RAW file support | ||||
| 4K monitor support | ||||
| Layers and Masks | ||||
| High Dynamic Range (HDR) tools | (no dedicated HDR module; more steps than PaintShop Pro) |
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| Photo management tools (indexing, metadata, and rating controls) | (separate app – Adobe Bridge) |
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| Enhance photos from within Crop tool | ||||
| Project templates | ||||
| PSD compatibility | (native Photoshop file format) |
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| Advanced UI customization | ||||
| Web tools | ||||
| 360° camera support | ||||
| Support for automation | (Scripts) |
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| Support for Photoshop plugins | (to version Adobe Plugin SDK ver 10) |
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| Seamless content and plugin migration | ||||
| Dual monitor mode | ||||
| Stylus and graphics tablet support | ||||
| In-app Guided Tour | ||||
Compatibility |
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| Pricing | Windows |
Windows, Mac, Online |
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| File formats supported | Import formats Export formats |
Import/Export formats 3D-related formats |
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| 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 |
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| Brush formats supported | Yes. PaintShop Pro Brush (.pspbrush), Adobe Photoshop Brush (.abr), Jasc Brush (.jbr) |
Photoshop brushes only |
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| Audio & video formats supported | None by default (handled separately via Corel Photo Video Bundle) |
Audio import formats: Video import formats: Video export formats: |
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* Supported on 32-bit installs only
** WPG (WordPerfect Vector only) is not supported on 64 bit. WordPerfect Bitmap is supported on 64 bit
‡ Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Pricing current as of May 2020 and is subject to change. Pricing obtained from the Adobe Photoshop plans page: https://creative.adobe.com/plans
Subscription includes Adobe Lightroom CC and Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
AI, BMP, CAL, CALS, CGM, CLP, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, GIF, HDP, IFF, IMG, J2C, J2K, JIF, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, JPS, JPX, MAC, MPO, MRW, MSP, PBM, PCD**, PCT, PCX, PDF, PGM, PIC, PICT, PNG, PNS, PPM, PS, PSD, PSP (PSP image files), RAS, RAW, RIF, RLE, SCT, SVG, SVGZ, TGA, TIF, UFO, WBM, WBMP, WDP, WEBP, WMF, WPG***
RAW file support for over 800 camera models, including the following file extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, DNG, K25, KDC, NEF, NRW, ORF, PEF, RAF, RW2, SR2, SRF, X3F (Visit full model list)
BMP, CAL, CALS, CLP, CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, EPS, AI, PS, GIF, 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, TGA, TIF, TIFF, WBMP, WBM, WEBP, WMF
* The native 32-bit version of Windows is no longer supported. For support with 32-bit drivers, use earlier versions of PaintShop Pro.
** Supported on 32-bit version of PSP installations only.
*** WPG (WordPerfect Vector only) is not supported on 64-bit version. WordPerfect Bitmap is supported on 64-bit version.
