Move over Adobe, there’s a new powerhouse in the powerful graphics editors category of software. Corel, who has owned Jasc’s Paint Shop Pro software since 2004, and this summer bought out my favorite graphics software company, Ulead, has cornered the market on quality affordable graphics editors. Ulead created PhotoImpact, my graphics editor of choice. I own an older version (Jasc) of Paint Shop Pro and the latest version 12 of PhotoImpact, both of which cost less than $100.
Purchasing PhotoImpact is really a good deal. You get so much value for your dollar with additional software included:
tools for managing and browsing your images, creating 360-degree panoramas and making animated GIFs. Plus, you get 1,398 royalty-free images, 2,221 Web elements, 3,270 customizable effects!
- Ulead Photo Explorer & PhotoImpact Album 12
- Ulead® COOL 360™ photo panorama software
- Ulead® GIF Animator™ 5
The other great thing about PhotoImpact is that you can use just about any Photoshop plugin there is, and you can work with PSD files if you need to.
Of course Corel has their high end products as well of which I would recommend CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, a powerful vector illustrator, and Corel Painter X, a powerful Natural-Media® painting and illustration tool.
In short, Corel continues to provide quality products with features and technical capabilities that are comparable to products offered elsewhere, at significantly lower prices.
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November 16th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I also have started using Photoimpact and like it very much. Lately I have wanted to create web 2.0 icons and logos and have a hard time doing this in PI. Do you know of any filters or something that will help me?
Thanks Ryan