| Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 | 
 enlarge | From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £45.24
You Save: £4.75 (10%)
New (3) Used (4) from £21.44
Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 44
Format: Dvd-rom
Platform: Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.9 x 2.1
MPN: PSPPX2IEPC
UPC: 735163114300
EAN: 0735163114300
ASIN: B000UZBYAA
Release Date: October 5, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Beware installation problems and rubbish technical support March 16, 2008
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
Backup your system before installing this product!
The installation from CD went okay but on launching the application it automatically downloaded an update which crashed the Windows installer and left my system in a real mess.
Unfortunately, Corel's technical support web site is designed like a fortress to block communication from customers. After a long battle I did eventually manage to fire off a plea for help but the response was automatically-generated and bore no relation to my problem or even to this product.
In the end I managed to overcome the problem by restoring my system from a backup and then using msconfig to force a "clean boot" before reinstalling PSP and its dodgy update. Instructions for that can be found on Symantec's web site:
http://service1.symantec.com/Support/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2002040815531039
 Constantly freezes March 14, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
I created a new blank image and tried to add some guide lines. After adding 3 or 4 the program freezes and this has happend repeatedly 5 times. This program is not worth the 30 minutes it takes to download. What is worse is that Corel offer no customer support or at least I couldn't find any.
Very disappointing.
 Not exactly a review of this Product March 13, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I use PsP v7 on Vista 64, so if you do have problems on vista turn on compatability with XP and Run as administrator. Right click the Program's icon to access these.
I'm thinking of upgrading, and was wondering what people said since corel took over.
 What was easy to use is now over-complicated February 27, 2008
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
I upgraded to this new version of Paint Shop Pro and was not comfortable with it, have now removed it and gone back to an old version. Waste of money.
Unusable with large image collections February 16, 2008
26 out of 30 found this review helpful
Once again a major upgrade to PSP has been issued without user testing (despite the disaster of ver 8.0 - you'd think Corel would learn... ).
This time it's the previously-good browser that has been converted into unusable bloatwware. As the browser is key to accessing images, this undermines using X2.
If you only have a few thousand images (and lots of RAM) then you won't see the problem. I have about 90,000 and even deleting or moving a single image locks the PC into 60 to 120 secs of hard-drive thrashing (despite 1G of RAM). This makes X2 a major waste of time.
Other annoyances with the browser are no longer being able to right-click to copy or move images; no counter for number of images in a folder; and no progress indicator when rotating batches of images.
Other functions have also been knobbled. The worst is no 'Command History' for multiple undoing. In Preview effects the 'toggle' to turn off previewing has been reduced to a miniscule tick box when earlier versions had a much bigger button to aim for. As this is the control used most often this is both annoying and likely to result in RSI. Equally stupid and annoying is clicking 'OK' in the preview pop up does not automatically cancel the preparation of a preview as with earlier versions.
All in all evidence that (a)the code-monkeys behind the software have no idea how users actually use PSP; (b)once again Corel has spent not a single cent on user-testing before releasing upgrades.
I'm not aware of any version of PSP that does not have significant bugs somewhere. I now have three versions of PSP installed and use the version where the bugs are least likely to trip up the job I'm doing. What this means is that the browser problems with X2 means this is the version I'm least likely to use. For me ver 8.1 remains the most useable (so long as I don't want to edit text after closing a file... )
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