I figured Adobe and Corel have been around forever and if I couldn't get them to work together smoothly, then it HAD to be my fault. At the time, I just assumed that I was to blame for my ignorance. When I was using Lightroom 3.6 and I wanted a layering editor I bought PSP X3 and I never could get an image to appear in PSP the way it did in Lightroom. Corel just isn't getting any more of my money. Out of frustration, I've stopped upgrading PSP at PSP X6.

There's a LOT to like about PSP, but color management isn't one of them. With PaintShop Pro however, the terminology of the colour management is completely different, and it's not clear to me(even after reading the help page) how the icm profiles should be set up to achieve the same on-screen soft-proofing and final print colours as I achieve with Photoshop.Ĭan anyone who is familiar with both systems help me out here? Is soft proofing possible with PaintShop Pro? Why does PaintShop Pro use such different and awkward colour management terminology from most other photo-processing applications? A screenshot example of the colour management menu with Photoshop CS6 can be seen below (CS6). icm profiles when working on an image so that I can see on screen what the colours of the final printed copy will look like for any particular printer and paper. Normally with Photoshop I use 'soft-proofing' and relevant. My main concern with PSP, however, is it's rather unfamiliar colour management setup. Encouraged by the recent round of price reductions for PaintShop Pro x8, I decided to give it a try as a potential replacement for Photoshop CS6, since I don't wish to transfer to Photoshop CC.

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