# Corel vs Photoshop **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 4, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512 "2009-10-04T03:02:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mrnewbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@mrnewbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrnewbie)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/21 "2010-03-04T22:30:52Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The lead programmer on Paint Shop Pro was an old friend of mine named Jon Ort - one of the brightest people I’ve ever known. When we worked together at a graphics company in Chicago (Targa board days), Jon designed a PC motherboard, wrote the microcode and BIOS and designed one of the first 24-bit VGA cards. The graphics utilities he wrote for that card eventually became the basis of Paint Shop Pro. > > His original goal was to have “90% of Photoshop’s capability at one-tenth the price”. Somewhere around PSP 7, he started to exceed Photoshop (IMO, obviously). Adobe started playing catch-up with PSP features like Browse. The main problem with Adobe Photoshop is that they want to continue to sell their other products like Illustrator, so Photoshop is downright crippled compared to PSP in terms of vector drawing - you want vector masks? Open Illustrator. > > I lost contact with him when JASC sold, so I don’t know if Jon is still working on the program at Corel. I agree wholeheartedly with another poster…I REALLY appreciate the guy that wrote PSP and was very sad when Corel bought it and (IMO) ruined it. Slicing, tubes, cloning,…every instance of image manipulation I felt was far batter that anything else on the market. I started using it on version 2 I believe and donated to the cause and purchased every subsequesnt release till corel go it. There is a new upstart called [paint.net](http://paint.net) (thats actually the program name) that looks a bit like that first version of Jasc which I am using now but it has a long way to go. I hope they succeed! ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/22 "2010-03-05T00:30:09Z")
I’ve been using Photoshop since 1.0, in 1990 (grayscale!). I suppose the reason I continue to use it is because it’s what I’m used to. I’ve tried some of the others, but they just seem “alien” to me . . . it’s the same feeling I get when using a PC rather than a Mac. But I’m not deluding myself into thinking the program’s significantly better than its competitors, or that it’s the best choice for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/23 "2010-03-05T00:49:09Z")
I was working on an illustration in a painterly style, that I hadn’t really done before in Photoshop. But I found it hard going, and seemed to me more like something suited to Corel Painter. I find Photoshop really useful for photo manipulation, and digital matte images, but I wouldn’t use it for illustration or painting type projects. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/24 "2010-03-05T07:50:11Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I find Photoshop really useful for photo manipulation, and digital matte images, but I wouldn’t use it for illustration or painting type projects. That may change come April: [CS5 sneak peek](http://cs5.org/?p=415#more-415) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/25 "2010-03-05T08:12:13Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > Photoshop is downright crippled compared to PSP in terms of vector drawing. That’s certainly not the case nowadays. Photoshop has pretty powerful vector capabilities. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/26 "2010-03-05T08:15:37Z")
I occassionally need to edit images so I bought Photoshop. I spent a few hours playing with it and couldn’t figure out how to do anything. Then I tried JASC Paint Shop Pro and had the opposite experience. It was intuitive and powerful. To this day, one of the first programs I install on any new PC is JASC PSP 8.10. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512/27 "2010-03-05T08:56:13Z")
The current issue of [ImagineFX](http://www.imaginefx.com/02287754330698395382/imaginefx-issue-54.html) has an article on Corel Painter vs Photoshop. You may want to check it out, if you can get the mag (I don’t know your location). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/corel-vs-photoshop/512512.md?page=1)