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Jen
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Corel has done some nice stuff lately from the little attention I've paid to them. Without looking, CorelDraw is probably getting more specialized with nice access to wacom/tablet performance, because they acquired JASC's Paintshop Pro a year or two ago, so they no longer have a need for CorelDraw to compete only with Photoshop's bells and whistles. If I was working on a windows os, I would definitely have Paintshop Pro or CorelDraw instead of Photoshop. I'd probably have Gimp as well, just to see how their work on its windows port is going with each version.
I can't use Gimp on my Mac because the OS is 10.2 instead of 10.3, the latest release when the Gimp project started. They've come a long way with Gimp in the past few years. A year ago I heard that it is now the second most used photo editing software, knocking Paintshop Pro to #3. Photoshop is still #1 as far as I know, but I think the top 3 are based mostly on how many OSes each one works on. Paintshop Pro is solely Windows, Gimp is expanding the OSes that it works on from the Mac, Linux, and Unix that they started with, and Photoshop seems to at least function on whatever system its installed on, though it seems to hate playing nice with Windows.
There are free 30-day-trials with Corel software, and after that period they will send you information on how to register the product for a reduced cost. Paintshop Pro costs $99 US, but if you download the package online it can be registered for $70 instead. This is also how Dell can offer Paintshop loaded onto your system for $70.
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