PSP was built for the hobbyist and therefore a professional will have to sort through and ignore the features that produce those results not suited for pro work. The tone curve being a significant tool is vastly better in PSP and the brightness/contrast and fill light/clarity tools are very reactive using the on image preview, (which uses GPU processing nicely). PSP 2021 does bring a few new filters to the game AI noise reduction, AI Artifact removal are great they have the AI upsampling feature and the skin smoothing is very nice. With that said the complete work space (which is an actual work space setting) has all the tools PSP has to offerr a professional image corrector at you finger tips. They also have a sea to sky for underwater and drone photography which I have not tested but it looks similar in action the the photography work space.

PSP has a photography workspace which quite frankly is a joke, just my opinion but it's like a guide to screwing up images.

With that said the masking and path tools in PP are still superior to PSP and many like the purge clipboard command. The upsampling feature in PP is nice and as good as PhotoZoom and in some cases better, however Photo-PAINT has been left to whither on the vine. I've been doing some corrections with Photo-PAINT 2020 and PaintShop Pro 2021 and the combined tool set is better than it was before.Īs a professional you still need to have Photo-PAINT the CMYK, LAB and Device N support are paramount for color corrections.Īlthough Corel really has not bothered to repair the tone curve dialog that was seriously broken in PP 2019.

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