My DH found this in a forum he frequents, caught his eye because he knows I like Paintshop Pro. Since the 2022 versions all just came out, this is a bundle with 2021 versions of Paintshop Pro, Painters, Corel's Video Editor, Aftershot, plus a bunch of brushes and stuff. Literally a thousand dollars worth of software for $30.

If you've been "making do" with a free photo editor but wanting to do more "stuff" to your images, for $30 you can't go wrong (seems like a legit offer, although I haven't downloaded my software yet).

https://www.humblebundle.com/s...

I realized the subject heading sounded like spam, so I added "not spam" after it.

I'll update after playing with software download (at least the Paintshop Pro) tonight.

Best offer I got for upgrading to PSP was I think $45, and that was only if I had a previous version. This isn't an upgrade offer.

I bought it, got the email, followed the link to the website page, and successfully downloaded Paintshop Pro 2021.

I tried out a couple of the new AI features, like the one that de-pixelates enlarged photos, and I was REALLY impressed.
I've been using PSP for years, and this one looks like a big improvement over PSP 2019.

This immediately got my attention... but my first thought was "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is"! I hadn't heard of that site before. Although, after some Googling about it I'm very tempted to pull the trigger. So it isn't a subscription, but legit full software licenses? And, I don't have to sign up for a paid subscription to use the humblebundle site either?

I've been using Corel Photo-Paint 9 for.... I think like 20 years? My dad bought me the whole Corel Draw 5 Suite some years before that as a gift, but I mostly just used the Photo-Paint part so upgraded that at some point. When I re-installed Windows on my computer earlier this year for a fresh start, for the first time I didn't install Photo-Paint. It had become problematic to use. Any photos I edited with it had all their metadata wiped out when I saved them, which was annoying since I now use that data a lot for labeling and organizing my photos.

I now mainly use Picasa for organizing, basic cropping, adjustments, etc. (Yeah... that's old software too. Apparently, I don't do well with change and I'm cheap!) I reserved my Photo-Paint use for the more advanced stuff mainly when digitizing old family photos. Stuff like recreating damaged sections with cloning, layers, drawing, airbrushing. I also sometimes would have fun creating some artwork like putting our pets into classic paintings as people.... the "dogs playing poker" style! It looked like the newer Paint Shop Pro would do those types of things, so I've had an older version saved in my Amazon shopping list for a couple of years now pondering if it's worth the price, or if I should just use freeware. Thing is I tried the GIMP a few times and found it so different from the Corel stuff I'd used for so long, that I just couldn't get the hang of it. This bundle may be just what my cheap old a$$ needs! This is even making me think of breaking out my old Wacom graphics tablet and seeing if it still works. It uses a serial port! I did get a USB adapter for it many years ago though.

I did buy it last night before I went to bed! Didn't download yet though. Very easy checkout, I used PayPal, no extra charges or subscriptions needed! I texted my brother since he's a big gamer and he reassured me that it is legit and he's had the monthly subscription option with them for like three years!

Thanks for the link! I never would have seen the deal on my own. At checkout I felt bad because if I had a referral code from you, you could have gotten some benefit.

If you can change the post title here, maybe say it is for Corel photo software at humblebundle. I just clicked on it on a whim, but I'm glad I did!

I can't change the title, that's a forum admin thing. But I did put the same link on a thread here discussing different photo processing software, so I think other people saw it.

I didn't see a referral code thing; not worried about it.

When you click the link in their email, the top of the page will have some additional installation instructions... scroll down for active "download" buttons for everything. I'm not sure how long the download links stay active -- I'm going to download the rest of it over the weekend.

I did download, install, and run PSP 2021. Played just a bit with it, and I'm loving it.

I installed PSP earlier today and had a moment of panic when in first came up. I thought what the heck, this only can do a few things. Then I realized by default it loads a simplified workspace for doing photo edits on touchscreens. I found where to switch to the full workspace that has all the familiar toolbars and stuff I recognize. It looks like they've added quite a few more things in the past 20 years! I'll have to do some reading up to take full advantage. Hopefully it works ok even if it is a bit slow on my old budget computer... although that is long overdue for an upgrade too. I'm installing VideoStudio now and man the installs are pretty slow... it took almost half an hour!

When I looked at it again I think the referral code perks are maybe only for people that sign up for one of the subscription plans, so maybe you didn't miss out on anything.

I don't have a touchscreen on this laptop, so I didn't load that version. There are lots of tutorials. I have some reading/watching to do also! I know I didn't take advantage of half of what was on my 2019 version... for instance, I really need to work more with layers. DD does layers so much with one of her drawing programs, it's become almost instinctive. I still have to think through it... and I usually don't bother. It's quite a powerful program!

I got all the software installed finally which went pretty smoothly and then I registered it with Corel. I downloaded all the extra goodies and am in the process of installing them too. Since I've never used HumbleBundle, I wasn't sure how long the download links would be active for. I'm assuming that for the software that had product keys, I can always redownload it direct from Corel and reactivate it as long as I have the product keys. I wasn't sure about the other stuff though.

A warning though if you haven't installed any of the extras yet (brushes, papers, effects, etc.). Installing those is kind of a hot mess. There aren't any options when running the installs and it's hard to tell where it actually puts the files. It also seems to create a bunch of empty folders that aren't used for anything and duplicate files in strange places that aren't deleted after the install. I was also confused as to which extras went with which program.

From what I can tell the brushes and papers are just for Painter. I was confused because I was looking for them in PaintShopPro. ParticleShop is the plugin that can run from within PaintShopPro and Adobe PhotoShop which says it is powered by Painter to let you use the new brushes from there, and some of the installed brushes did show up in ParticleShop, but not all of them. It looks like some of the brush installers put a copy of the files in the directories for both programs, while others just put them in the Painter folder. I thought since ParticleShop was "powered by Painter" that it would just load the brushes from there, instead of creating duplicate files. Wondering if I manually copy some over, if they will work ok? Weird thing is the installers also left a third copy of the brush files in my main hard drive root folder C: . I deleted them and it still works fine. Maybe it unzipped files there before copying them and then was unable to delete the extras after the install??

The paper pack installers seemingly just put folders with the paper library files on my desktop but didn't actually install or import them into Painter... I had to Google to figure out how to do that.

The effect scripts seem to be installed ok in the PaintShopPro folder, but left an empty junk folder called "languages" or something in my root folder C. I haven't installed the video overlay things yet, but I'm assuming they will go into the VideoStudio directory.

I had never bought any extras for my old Corel software so I don't know if this is the norm, but it seems very disorganized! I also had to go in and turn off the daily pop-up ads for more Corel software that kept appearing. I think I've still got a lot of reading to do and videos to watch to figure out how to take full advantage of all of this!

Glad the software downloads and registration went smoothly for you. I didn't have any trouble with the big pieces but agree that the "extras" in the bundle were a "hot mess" to install!

I installed all the little extras anyway but haven't gone looking for any of them yet. I may go back and delete many of them, although some of the brushes seem like they'd be useful (like the "fur" texture brush). I googled a few of them to see what they were, and which program they went with. I got the bundle mostly for Paintshop Pro, although I'll play with Painter and the Video Editor at least. Hard to beat getting all that for $30!

I was playing around with the fur brushes too and they are pretty cool! FYI, When I tried copying some of the brush files over to the ParticleShop directory that hadn't installed there, they did appear in the plugin, but when I went to use them I got an error message. So, I'm not sure if they are incompatible with it for some reason or if getting them to work involves more than just copying files over. I'm still not entirely sure what the purpose of that plugin is when Painter was also included in the bundle. It just seems like a simplified version of Painter that only includes some of the brushes?

Thanks again for the link! I think I'm going to have a lot of fun playing with these programs over the long winter. I have a backlog of old family photos in need of restoration.

You're welcome! I haven't started playing with the plugins, so I can't help you there.

For anybody that purchased the bundle, the links are still active, but you should probably hurry up and finish downloading. I'm not sure how long they keep the links up, as they add different bundles (mostly gaming) each week.

For anybody that didn't purchase it, the offer is now closed.