It was actually a good idea, as we shall see. However, as I always do for safety reasons, I did not replace the old version with the new Corel PaintShop Pro Photo X3, but I installed it in parallel to version 11, since the product allows it.

As always, I bought the English version, although this time it was not necessary because the new version is multilingual and allows you to switch from one language to another. Last month, Corel announced the release of version 13, with an updated interface and new features, so, having looked at the news, I decided to buy it. Since then, PSP has not significantly changed, especially from the functional point of view, so that when Corel released version 12, that is, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate Edition, I did not updated the license because, apart few fixes, there were no changes to justify its purchase. In 2005 I developed a site, the PSP Script Library, where I described in detail all the scripts that were available in the various versions of PSP, and which still contains a number of free downloadable scripts developed by me as well as links to other sites of free scripts. Two of the major advantages of this product were, and still are, the compatibility with most of the plug-ins and filters for Photoshop and the ability to write scripts in Python language. Then, with the first corrections and especially with version 11, called Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, things significantly improved. The performance had dropped drastically and often the application crashed, so that for a long time I kept both version 9.01 by Jasc and version 10 by Corel. The Corel product was almost completely rebuilt and at first it was a bloodbath.

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