Potential customers with no special attachment to this franchise had better wait for the 2021 flavour. I look forward to them bringing this particular puppy out of the 80s, but this feels like a rushed release with some lessons left to be learned, perhaps on the part of the new owners. However, it would be nice to see Corel compete on a broader basis. Half a year after the Parallels acquisition, there is no Mac support for PaintShop Pro yet, and it should of course reasonably be expected to take more time. Given what individual apps cost on the macOS store, it’s clear that the current pricing for these things on Corel’s store needs to be cut by about 90%. Either way, I suspect that either Photoshop CS6 or Elements would be a better buy by the time you’ve filled in the gaps with in-app purchases. The Photo Filter Bundle has an undefined set of these for the normal listed price of $130. These are basic filters most raster graphics applications would have included in the sale price. The philosophy here seems to be that most things that used to be included are now sold as individual scripts costing $9.99 – a “soft dream” script would be as much an example as “antique painting”, “duotone”, or “high contrast black and white”, all priced at $9.99. The strongest part of the package is probably the ability to install third party software through a plugin store. It does not seem that the items listed under “intelligent solutions” require AI. Inquiring minds would have liked to know, though. They also list “artificial intelligence” among the features that it’s “hard to list”. At the price they’re trying to get for this, they would need to be at least as good as Affinity in basic tasks like content aware fill, and they quite surprisingly do not have that down. Overall, there is a sense that they are overselling this release hard, not to mention that the website seems to be strongly modelled on Affinity’s.
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