I recently purchased an HP Laptop (Pavilion HDX18T 18.4-Inch Screen) which came with Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 preinstalled. I haven’t used (what was then known as) Paint Shop Pro since it was shareware back in the early to mid-1990s. It seems to be more of a resource hog than the more popular Photoshop, but one thing I really like about it is the noise removal.

Today’s top photo I took several years ago in Kyoto and posted early last year here.

The version below has had PaintShop Photo Pro’s “Noise Removal” applied to it. You may not notice much viewing them at only 800 pixels wide, but if you have a decent screen and can view them in something more like 1700×1050 then click on the images and compare. The noise removal really cleans things up in higher resolution.

Posted on September 17th, 2010 under Japan • Tags: compare, reviews. • RSS 2.0 feed • Both comments and pings are currently closed