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I have been looking for something different than Adobe Products to work on my images. I think I finally found one software that satisfies me on that. I have Paintshop Pro X4 and so far I am liking it. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now. My only problem with it so far is that I have use photoshop for years so I am used to where things are and how they are named. Those little things make it a little difficult to work until you learn. It does not have all the support of plugins that Photoshop has but I have not found those that necessary. The best thing is that X4 is only $99.  

Now I am off to go look up tricks and tips for it.

Check it out for yourself

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1184951547051#versionTabview=tab1&tabview=tab0

Photoshop Elements isn't overpriced and there's lots of free plug-ins that I find useful.  It also has a similar layout to Photoshop.  If I wanted to save more money, I would use the gimp.  That's $0, my favourite price for software .  I tried a trial of Corel in the past and I don't think it's as good as the gimp.

If used PS X2 and X3 found them excellent apart from X3 being a bit unstable so hanging on for a while till upgrade.

They always do a sale on Thanksgiving, to which I thank them imensely.

US$40 full version, US$30 upgrade. I may even get the full so I start from a fresh installation. Or doesn't it make any difference?

http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4220093&cid=catalog20038&segid=5900044