When comparing PhotoLine vs PaintShop Pro, the Slant community recommends PaintShop Pro for most people. In the question“What are the best Photoshop alternatives?” PaintShop Pro is ranked 8th while PhotoLine is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose PaintShop Pro is:
There are quite a few tutorial videos available on Paint Shop's website for users.
Specs
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Pros
Pro It is like Bridge+Illustrator+Photoshop but without Adobe bloatware and tracking nightmare
Supports up to 32 bit per channel, many color profile categories [cmyk, Lab, spot, greys, hexacrome], common vector files [ai,svg,eps,pdf], raster formats for edit [png, tif, psd, ], has a file browser, etc.
Pro Has tutotirals
There are quite a few tutorial videos available on Paint Shop's website for users.
Pro Several file formats supported
Can read and write images in several file formats: PCX, PNG, GIF, CDR, PSD, JPG, EPS, TIF, TGA, WMF... even RAW.
Pro Custom palettes
Being able to work with a pre-defined number of color palettes, save and load custom palettes and several modes to reduce the number of colors on a picture.