Corel Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop are rival software programs used to manipulate and improve the quality of photos and other images. The user-friendly Paint Shop Pro is more suited for amateur image-editors and the general public, whereas the more complex Photoshop is the go-to-tool for professional photographers, graphic designers and Web designers. Paint Shop Pro has less image-processing power and fewer overall features than Photoshop, but it is also much less expensive. Writer Bio
