The screenshot says it all. At a time when Corel has greater competition in the mid range bitmap photo editing space – Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Gimp, plus a flock of other programs – Corel could not afford to release anything but a real winner update to its PaintShop Pro line. PSP X1 already had problems with 1-2 minute boot up times, erratic behaviour of the browser, and some curious crashes. But the new PSP X2 can’t even start up in less than 3 minutes; sometimes never getting up. Not good for a once proud name in graphics software.
And I don’t think its my machine or OS software. I just installed Adobe CS3 Creative Suite ( 5 major graphics programs) with no problems whatsoever.I also installed Lightroom and SmartDraw for the first time – again no problems. Hence the keenness of the disappointment.