Most newer versions are only commercially available although some have been distributed in the United Kingdom in computer magazine CDs after they became obsolete. Paint Shop was originally distributed as shareware and is still available at many download sites (4.12 being a popular version). It was released by Robert Voit in August 1990. Originally called simply Paint Shop, the first version, 1.0, was a basic picture converter between BMP, GIF and PCX formats, conceived by Robert Voit and developed by Joel DeRider. It’s just the suite that keeps giving! If you want to take a closer look there’s a free trial available on the Zoner website – click link below – so try it out for yourself and I have a feeling you won’t be disappointed.Paint Shop Pro 1.0 (pictured here running on Windows XP), was released in 1992 for Windows 3.1. There’s also another added feature called Zonerama on board as well, which is Zoner’s free unlimited, non-compression online user gallery (similar to Google Photos), which is fully integrated with ZPSX. With neat features like the tab system allowing multiple parallel jobs and the ease of importing (or not) with quick controlled edits this is a hugely impressive all-rounder and has to be seen as a real contender in the full editing suite markets.

I would look at ZPSX as a unique opportunity to use something that works very well but is super cost effective. Hopefully this will change at some point down the line and there are plenty who are working on Android devices and so it’s still a big market. The fact that, at the moment, Zoner is only compatible with Windows is something that is likely to be addressed in the future, but until that time it does mean that those working on iOS systems are currently excluded. ZPSX is a great package that combines the best elements of Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop on top of added features, such as the creation of photo books or video editing, all in one space, enabling the photographer to run a really efficient workflow and to save money as well. This is great because, as we all know, the same workflow arrangement doesn’t fit every photographer’s needs. So, whatever your current working methods, there’s a way to fully emulate these and to integrate everything into the ZPSX system. Work with either fully-developed Raw files or fast previews for sorting and culling, and edit images non-destructively or destructively. One of the strong points of this software is that it’s open, so you can choose your own workflow, to import or not to import.

THE BEAUTY OF Zoner Photo Studio X is that it doesn’t lock you into a set way of doing things.

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