The new PaintShopPro 2020 just appeared and there is a free 30-day download. As many ThePhotoFinishes will know, this editor has been looking for a replacement for AdobePhotoshop as Adobe has failed to honor its contract with Photoshop and CS2, Cs3, CS4 And CS5 users. Rightnow the best replacement to date has been Autodesk’s Pixlx online PhotoEditor.
So when the Corel ads appeared hope springs eternal, I decided to try PaintShopPro 2020 despite a bad experience with PaintShopPro 2019[Hint,here are the tags for that review: Corel PaintShop Pro 2019, deceptive advertising, poor program support, very limited support for many classic photo plugins]. PaintShopPro 2019 Stumbles Badly was the overall verdict.
What made things Bad for PaintShopPro 2019 was not just the loss of the ability to use many of my two dozen, carefully accumulated photo plugins but was also the need to learn a new layout of PaintShopPro 2019’s workspace – lots of subtle and other times slavish changes to the workspace layout. So readers can imagine the enthusiasm when encountering the new PaintShopPro 2020 layout: