Corel's PaintShop Pro has been around for almost as long as Adobe Photoshop, offering a capable alternative at a much lower price. In the past few years, though, Adobe has fought back by changing its pricing. Instead of paying over £500 to buy Photoshop, you now rent it as part of the Creative Cloud Photography plan for just £8 a month, accompanied by the Lightroom photo manager. Professional photographers will import their pics into Lightroom, where they stay neatly archived, and dip into Photoshop for more advanced retouching. This latest version of PaintShop Pro is clearly designed to meet Adobe's challenge head-on. Previously, a big limitation was its poor handling of 'raw' images. More advanced digital cameras give you the option of storing raw files instead of (or as well as) the usual JPEGs. The difference is that they're recorded without any of the colour tweaks, lens correction and noise reduction that help to make snaps look good straight out of the camera.
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