It’d be a good place to start for beginners. The new “touch-ready” Photography workspace is inviting since it doesn’t distract you with a bewildering set of tools. The first thing to do in Paintshop Pro 2020 Ultimate is to choose from three workspaces: Photography, Essentials and Complete. The latter works well with layers since you can adjust the opacity to achieve optimum results. A notable exception to this is DNG support, but it does have lens corrections, layers and Perfectly Clear auto image enhancement. Although not as sophisticated as the pro version, Aftershot 3 Standard offers much more than the in-program raw conversion tool of PSP 2020. The latter lets you create Lightroom-style catalogs, so all changes to images are stored inside the program instead of in separate XMP sidecar files. Aftershot 3Īftershot 3 is a pared-down version of Corel’s Aftershot Pro, which you can upgrade to for a modest sum.

Since many of our pictures start out as raw files, it seems apt to look at these facilities first. Paintshop Pro Ultimate comes with Corel Aftershot 3 raw processing software as well as its own in-built raw conversion. The new touch-ready Photography Workspace may not suit everyone, but it’s uncluttered and armed with enough tools to rifle through many pictures.

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