

But though there are lots of them, they can be usefully hidden, undocked from the menu bar (to become floating palettes), as required to make the workspace more efficient. The look of Photo-Paint is an interesting hybrid of the looks of Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop, featuring a very large image work area, bounded to the left and top by tools and menus. To produce images ready for print and reproduction you need to ensure those images 'work' when converted to the colour regime used for print, rather than the RGB - red, green, blue - used on screen. Now at Version 10 (the current Mac version is 9, but differences are slight) this is spiritually the closest product to Photoshop: an overt professional level program that includes that pre-requisite of the pro, CMYK image editing modes. Though early versions were somewhat lacklustre later versions have proved something of a revelation and Corel came under increasing pressure to release the product as a stand-alone.

Photo-Paint began as a pixel based image-editing component of the comprehensive CorelDRAW! graphics package.
