9/4/2023 0 Comments Corel photo paint 5![]() ![]() ![]() I think this version shows the limited resources Corel dedicated to upgrading Photo Paint from earlier versions. It looks and seems to operate 95% the same as X3, but they have many small improvements, and what they did change is mostly peripheral and under the covers. The user interface looks the same and Corel really hasn't added an incredible amount of new content to this version of PhotoPaint in this version. So what's new in PhotoPaint X5? Surprisingly, very little. I have been a serious Photo Paint user for over 4 years now and just upgraded from Corel X3 to X5. I favor Corel PhotoPaint over Adobe Photoshop for the bulk of my work - minor to medium level cleanup, sharpening, and compressing. I've been using the CorelDraw Graphics Suite products for many many years. It does seem faster on my Athlon X2 box than X3 did. * Multi-Core Processor Support - Lets you use the speed. (Image straightening keeps crashing my app, however, but I expect them to release a patch soon as it just came out a month ago.) * Various Other Improvements - Hexadecimal color value entry, better compatibility with other apps like Photoshop CS4, image straitening, and so on. Note that this may sound trivial, but conversion to B&W is pretty weak on most photo editing software, so every little bit of improvement we can get is big. * Better Grayscale Conversion Control - You have some control on how colors get converted. They probably still do but at least Corel is making headway. This is helpful since Photoshop really dominated Corel when it came to Layers. * Object (Layer) Docker - This is now better organized and customizable. Some functions, such as the Touch Up brush, appear to disable when editing RAW, however. * RAW Support - This may have been there in X4 but it wasn't in X3, so it's new and nice for me. There's various dockers and screens that assist with color. * Color Management - Color matching and convenience seems to have been a primary target of X5. ![]()
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