Corel Photo-Paint
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Last Updated: February 25th 2009
Corel PhotoPaint is an image editing package that comes very close to Adobe Photoshop's repertoire. It's packed with features galore - from the ability to edit movies, lots of extra filters and great export modules.
Resources
Ted's Digital Art Tutorials were developed using PhotoPaint 6 - although you can use them with all the later versions as well.
Designer.com has many Photo-Paint tutorials.
Plug-ins/Filters
This list comprises plug-ins which adhere to the Adobe Photoshop plug-in standard -- most of these should work with Photo-Paint as well:
Corel makes the highly popular KPT range - their Designer.com site has more information in the form of tips and tutorials.
Graphicxtras has a special bundles of nibs, sprays, tiles, and plug-ins for Photo-Paint.
Extensis has a range of productive plug-ins including Photo Tools, MaskPro, Intellihance, PhotoFrame, etc.
Alien Skin is the creator of the popular EyeCandy and Xenofex plug-ins.
Ulead has an interesting range of Photoshop plug-ins including Gif-X, SmartSaver Pro and FX Razor.
Xaos Tools creates a range of plug-ins including Paint Alchemy, Terrazzo, TypeCaster and Segmation.
Flaming Pear has a comprehensive range of plug-ins including the Super BladePro, Flood and Lunar Cell.
ChromaGraphics creates Chromatica, MagicMask and EdgeWizard.
Andromeda offers various plug-ins including Cutline, Velocipraptor, LensDoc and their Photography, Screens and 3D filters.
AutoFX creates Typographic Edges, Photographic Edges, AutoEye, Patterns, Frames, Webvise Totality and more.
BoxTop offers a range of web plug-ins including PhotoGIF, ImageVice, ColorSafe, GIFmation, ProJPEG and SuperGIF.
Right Hemisphere creates Deep Paint - natural media artistic effects within Photoshop.
From the Human Software stable come Squizz, OttoPaths, Testissimo, AutoMask, etc.
PC Resources for Photoshop is home to the excellent freeware Photoshop filter collections - Filter Factories and Andrews
There are many more plug-ins available - in fact we've just scratched the tip of the surface. Other plug-ins include Plugin Galaxy,
Read comprehensive reviews of many Photoshop plug-ins at the Plugin Host site.
