Beagle - 2:13 pm on Mar 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

Corel Draw would be a parallel to Illustrator rather than to PhotoShop. Their PhotoShop parallel would be either Paint Shop Pro or Corel Paint. Now that they've taken over Paint Shop Pro from jasc, Corel seems to be emphasizing photo editing features on the latest PSP releases and leaving the graphics features basically static - possibly to minimize its competition with Paint?

I've been happy with PSP, but since I work mainly with graphics - as opposed to photos - I haven't bothered with the recent updates. For photo work, the latest releases have been getting very good reviews; any negative comments have mostly been from us graphics folks grumbling about being ignored. (ETA: I haven't grumbled enough yet to buy Paint, so I can't give an opinion on that - it leans toward the "artistic" natural media-type use.)

[edited by: Beagle at 2:24 pm (utc) on Mar. 5, 2007]