I use Illustrator every day. I’ve tried many other programs over the years, and Illustrator is by far my favorite. I had an annual student-teacher subscription that I got direct from Adobe last year, during the Black Friday sales, and it happened the one-year commitment happened to end yesterday, so they automatically renewed this month at the full price. I happened to see the Black Friday deal here on the student-teacher version, and it’s a better deal than getting it direct from Adobe – you save around $42 for the year. I called Adobe to cancel my current subscription, and they refunded the month that I just paid for. Then I activated this license that I just purchased from Amazon. It can be difficult to figure out how to add this to your existing account, so here are the instructions:** Before making your purchase, make sure that you meet the eligibility requirements for the Student-Teacher edition (if that’s the version you’re getting). Check Adobe’s website for this information.** If you have an existing subscription, cancel it. You can cancel it and get a pro-rated refund for this month if you previously purchased an annual plan or an annual plan paid monthly at least a year ago. If your year isn’t up, I believe you will just end up having overlapping subscriptions, which may still be worth it. If in doubt, call Adobe (get the number from their website)** Select the product options you want – make sure that they’re correct, and make your purchase. I chose the one-time purchase, since it will autorenew at the non-Black Friday rate.**After making the purchase, if the Your Orders page doesn’t come up, you can just go to that page.** Next to the purchase info for the product. click on Go To Your Software Library. You should see all of your software digital download purchases – this newly-purchased subscription will most likely be the first one.** Select and copy your Product Key.** You should see a “How To Redeem This Item” link directly above the Product Key. Click on it and follow the instructions. You will be able to paste the Product Key.** You will need to fill in your eligibility information if you purchased the Student-Teacher version. You will then need to confirm your eligibility, if you don’t have something on file with Adobe already. It might confirm it for you automatically if you use an email from your academic institution as the email for your Adobe acct.** When you get to the point where it asks for a credit card, just click on Remind Me Later since it’s prepaid. It won’t autorenew a year from now without a credit card on file, and that’s probably what you want, because if it autorenews, you won’t get the Black Friday discounted plan. A year from now, you’ll be able to take advantage of next year’s Black Friday deals, whether from Amazon or direct from Adobe – just check to see who’s got the best prices.

Good luck getting help with this. It either works right away, or it does not. Adobe Tech support is COMPLETELY, TOTALLY AND UNQUESTIONABLY USELESS. If this does not link with an email address / account, it will never work. You will just need to get a refund. I tried 3 times, and three times doesn’t work. Amazon agent says to call Adobe, Adobe agent says to call Amazon. There is no solution to this. See screenshot of issue.>I tried creating “new” adobe accounts with new email addresses unknown to adobe. Does not work.>I tried connecting it to “existing account”. Does not work.>I tried connecting to “existing email”. Does not work.>I tried changing the password to Amazon and Adobe account, does not fix anything.Using same address as Amazon account does not work.The problem is – I bet they won’t let you renew using Amazon. I had a subscription expire in October 2025. Tried twice to renew when it went on sale in October. Did not work. Then again, I tried it again one month later (November 2025) – still does not work. I bet they only allow you to buy this ONCE through Amazon with a discount (or at all) and then never again, unless directly through Adobe. I am not doing that, I want my discount. Google / Adobe claim that you can renew using Amazon, has not worked. The only “remedy” is a refund, which obviously gets the money returned, but that means access to the software is never going to happen. Trying again doesn’t fix anything. Just get the run around from Adobe>Amazon>Adobe and nothing is ever fixed. Spent two hours+ on this, frankly they should give me money due to the time and energy I have wasted on this.The error:Vendor notified us the account associated with that email address is not eligible for this product. To create an account, please use a different email address.

Great program to adjust photos

It was an awesome price at $396 for a year. Ended the subscription after it went up to $660

I have used both Photoshop and Lightroom for years. They get better all the time. Subscription includes frequent updates automatically. Price went up considerably this year but I still think it is worth it.

Ever since Adobe went cloud and subscription, it is so confusing to decide which way to go for subscriptions. I really only use Lightroom Classic and have done so for many years. The past few years I’ve gotten the LR/PS photo bundle with 20Gb of cloud data but this year I thought I would try the LR only bundle and thought it would be great to have 1Tb of cloud data. BEWARE IF YOU DO THIS!! The LR only 1Tb cloud bundle DOES NOT INCLUDE LR Classic!!! I found out the hard way when trying to activate my Classic after paying the annual subscription fee. CLASSIC IS NOT INCLUDED WITH THE LR 1TB PLAN!!Essentially I will not need to pay a separate monthly subscription fee to have the LR/PS 20Gb bundle and will not even use the LR 1Tb cloud plan because it does NOT include Classic.If you are a LR Classic user, beware of this difference. It was an expensive lesson for me. My own fault for not noticing but Adobe makes it VERY difficult to sort through their numerous plan offerings.

It’s Lightroom and Photoshop, the standard for most photographers. Cheaper software is available, but nothing really compares.

Would give zero stars if I could. Redeemed the code and downloaded the software. Did not launch. Came back with error message. Installed and uninstalled several times. Still no luck. Went on Adobe site to get help and tried all of the things the BOT suggested. No luck. Could never get an actual person. After wasting a half a day on this, I am finished.

smooth download, great product

It didn’t download properly and it said to redownload the program. However, it says the code has already been used and now I’ve spent $100 on a program that I can’t get installed. Don’t waste your money.

Terrible product. It won’t allow me to print and it is a waste of money. Do not buy this. You can’t return it and there is no customer service. Give a hundred bucks to a homeless person and you’ll get more than buying this garbage from a faceless giant company that could care less about ripping you off.

Product would not install on the computer we bought it for. Tried recommendations provided by Adobe in the help screen and it still didn’t install. Not happy

I should have read the reviews first. I’ve used Adobe products for a long time, including Photoshop. Went to download this and paid my money, and it says I have a wrong code. When I go to Adobe, it says that my subscription has been canceled due to fraud. And of course you can’t reach anybody at Adobe. When you call, you just get a thing saying to call back. Used to be a good company, but never again!

This product stinks.. I bought it, downloaded it, and after paying for it, all I get is “start your free trial” . This product is reaslly poorly designed and doesn’t work.

You can do anything with this program. It’s a waste of money.

I’m used paint shop pro since version 5, and it’s always improving, and making photo editing so much easier. That’s why I keep purchasing it every time there’s an upgrade.

Very confusing to download properly.

I have used Corel Paint Shop Pro since it first came out way-back-when. I had lost track of it for a few years, until I ran across an article talking about Paint Shop Pro 2023 Ultimate. I immediately headed to Amazon to see if they had it–they did! I purchased it, downloaded it, and then installed it on my system, which was very easy. I’ve been extremely pleased with the results! Getting to know PSP again after all these years, I was extremely happy with all of the documentation and videos out there, showing you how to successfully work on your images. And the graphics quality is amazing. I will never go back to using any of the other graphics software out there–I will stick to PSP, because it’s a terrific product. I highly recommend it!

STAY AWAY FROM PC KEY CARD OPTION.It don’t works. Not valid. Ask you to pay again Corel download.Order twice because I thought first Key Cod was defective but second not valid too. Returned both and seller denied refund. Amazon stepped in and solved refund after several emails. Took me two weeks to finally receive refunds

While it does the job and was touted as a good alternative to Photoshop, it’s too clumsy, It wasn’t expensive and doesn’t require a subscription with recurring costs so will blunder on with it. One drawback are the continuing pleas to spend more money on app add ons that I don’t need. These are difficult if not impossible to stop and may mean that I’ll end up dumping it as 2.5Gb is way too much drive space used

Explains how to manipulate and display images even screen grabs lots of examples

Love this program! Works great on my computer. Doesn’t need a subscription to use.

The programming was just what I needed as I am getting back to my artwork. Oddly, though, it couldn’t work with a couple of file formats, but that didn’t deter me from trying. On the whole, this great program has helped me get things back-on-track for getting back to my comic strip! A lot of it is easy to understand. Very good graphics, too.

Trust the reviewers on the corresponding Adobe Photoshop Elements product. You can successfully pay for the software here (LOL), proceed to redeem the code on the Adobe website even, download the software executables, yet then the product won’t really even open/work. I am logged into the correct account on Adobe, logged out, and back in, just to make sure. The license is there listed as purchased and current. I have restarted the computer even. But when I click on the installed software, it opens this promotional-looking screen I have seen already elsewhere. Yes, with Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements and also the Organizer listed. But when I attempt to open them, I am then given two choices. 1. Start my “free trial” (I HAVE ALREADY PURCHASED THIS!) or 2. buy the product on the Adobe website. (HELLO, I HAVE JUST MADE A PURCHASE and “SUCCESFULLY REDEEMED” the licence code!) No matter what I do, it ignores my 3-year license purchase and is trying to sell it to me again. Of course, one can not return the software on Amazon. I attempted to chat to “helpful” chatbots (sarcasm), each with oddly the same 4-year long experience of support they mention at the beginning of our interactions. Once you explain your issue, the answer appears immediately, and the whole chat shuts down before you can even read the answer. You are instead prompted immediately to rate the chat experience. Well, if I could, then ZERO stars. I clicked out of it and retried. The answers were each time that they basically DO NOT SUPPORT this type of license. Bam. Done. Therefore: do NOT buy, it will NOT work, you will be just short of the money, and the company will NOT help you. My next step is to dispute the charges with the bank.

I think these software packages are both a good values for the capabilities that come with them. They are loaded with features that can make your images or videos look just the way you want. Easy to use.

Do not buyAfter purchasing this, it’s asking me to pay another $99.This is just the license code

The latest update breaks the software. Now it keeps prompting me to repurchase the software license I already paid for. Another useless tool from Adobe. Can’t get any assistance from them either. Sticking to Affinity from now on.

I am not the most computer savvy person, but I like to touch up/crop/add text to, etc. my photos . I had always used a fairly simple program called Microsoft Picture It! which I had on disc. That did everything I needed. I just upgraded to a new PC with Windows 10 and found Picture It! to be incompatible and no longer available. I didn’t want to spend a fortune for PhotoShop or any of the other programs I researched. Decided to try this. It was easy to load (even for my 65 year old brain) and has more photo processing than I’ll ever use. Great deal.

I bought this product to edit photos that range in age 80 years to present day. Black & white, color, Polaroid, faded and just plain old. This was suppose to be the best but it turned out to be the worst. The cd install was one of the worst I have seen. Errors during install and it said could not find the application to install the manual. This is even after I guided it to the correct folder. Apparently, the version installed is not the version the manual guide install was looking for. So I fought with there only to find that it did install? What the? The app opens to a home page that looks like code rather than something a user can navigate through. Very disorganized and displayed in small print across both sides of the screen. Never seen anything like this. It is going to be hard to use and/or navigate through trying decide where to go and do the things you want. Manual guide says it is 800 pages. Can you imagine trying to find something in that? Don’t know who said it was the best but to me it is pure chaos. It’s free but had to pay to have it shipped. Downloading it is out of the question due to the problems it causes. But I am stuck with it until I can find something useful. Don’t go there, you’ll be disappointed, like me.

I am a user of Photoshop Elements. My 15 year old mac is showing signs of giving up the ghost, and the new mac won’t run my old version of Elements. I have no interest in letting Adobe get their claws into me. I decided to give Gimp a try. I never used much of the capability of Elements, so I had hopes that Gimp would meet my limited needs. I just finished editing a series of mineral photographs with Gimp. In general it does what Elements did. It has some glitches. The tool bar sometimes is in a different location and partly unusable. On occasions the image jogs partly of the work area and won’t go back. I can’t use the pencil tool after using text. The instructions use different terms than are used on the display. However, the help feature is readily available to set you straight without going back to the instructions. In summary, it does what I need, but annoys the heck out of me at times.

Has a large choice of tools to enhance and create pictures.

I apologize for my limited ability to give this product a more thorough review at this time. However it proved quite able to handle the specific photo editing issue I wanted solved, the ability to do some detail editing on facial features of portrait photos of me and my wife. Beyond that I really haven’t had the opportunity to explore all the other very interesting photo editing options that it is capable of. I had read that the software was difficult to learn to manipulate as compared to other photo editing programs, that may be true, but it really didn’t take me long at all to find how to do the detail editing I wanted the software for. So we will see. Well worth the purchase price!

I obtained this software because of online advice.Tried to install 3 times on the 3rd time it installed.Inspected the program and determined that it was not useable for my needs (I’m 76 yrs old) and nota professional photo editor and just trying to edit my family photos.I placed the undamaged program disk back in the original package and returned through the UPS system, there were no damages when turned over to UPS.Refund was termed as Damaged and refunded less than 2% of the cost.Then goes back on line as previously viewed for $2.00 less than original price.Buyer Beware.

The CD programs work great, no problem loading on my computer and the programs are very efficient and easy to use

The software is working great ????

Very satisfied with the results.

Exactly what we were looking for!

So been using PS for a while then I had to stop my subscription and restart it due to income but as of the last go around Adobe did not recognize the subscription from Amazon and I couldn’t get help via Amazon so I just got screwed out of one month. That’s not to mention all the little bugs I’ve had to deal with using Photoshop in the months when it was working. Don’t bother buying this from here if you must have Photoshop but I’ll be going with Affinity products at this rate. Would give zero stars if I could.

ive purchased this again and the subscription is not working. Why am I not able to use this? i am wasting my money!

I loved everything. No problems here.

nice

I already wrote a note to you or Adobe Photoshop. I do not want this another month and I think I should be reimbursed for the 1st month, It is only Dec. 4 and it says it is through!! I thought I would receive it to download and it was downloaded and I didn’t now until about 4 days ago. I do not want this!! Please take care of this.

Did not work for the purpose I thought it would

Works great, If you thinking about buying it, Do it!

The full version of Corel is awesome as usual.

I have been using the Corel suite since 1990, buying new versions at fairly long intervals. I find the Corel suite able to do pretty much everything I want, and more intuitively than the Adobe equivalents, which sometimes seem almost intentionally obscure. The Corel suite’s general design and logic remains pretty constant from version to version, compared to Adobe products that seem to keep changing in look and feel for no obvious reason or benefit. I just want to get my work done using the skills I already have, not to be dazzled by a new, pretty interface. Corel still allows you to purchase a perpetual license for one version of the software, rather than subscribing for an annual fee that will cost much more over time unless you need to upgrade annually (which you almost certainly do not). This purchase (perpetual license, version 2025) was a long-overdue update from version X6 (released 2012, I believe). X6 now requires some tricks to make it display correctly under Windows 11 with NVidia drivers on a modern high-resolution monitor. More importantly, I updated because I really needed a feature that was added just a few years ago: envelope distortion of bitmaps inserted in CorelDraw vector drawings. Envelope distortion allows me to fairly easily “rubber-sheet” a photo of a relatively flat subject to correspond to measured points in a vector drawing. That is, I can roughly eliminate geometric distortion in a photo that was taken from a location that is not well centered in front of the flat subject and/or was taken with a direction of view that was not perpendicular to the flat subject. (Think of taking a photo of the logo on the side of a box from an angle, then adjusting it to appear to be viewed dead on. Not my use case, but the same concept.) It has other, more complex uses as well. Envelope distortion is much easier and more precisely controllable than the old 3D effects interface for bitmaps. It can be used with subjects that have known point coordinates (or points that should correspond to positions in a vector drawing) but lack straight horizontal and vertical lines, which are used for some other Corel (and Adobe, etc.) tools to adjust perspective and lens distortions in cases like photos of tall buildings. X6 had envelope distortion, but only for vector objects, not bitmaps. Other changes that I have noticed so far: the interface (especially some menus and dockers that I use all the time) has been tweaked in ways that make some tools easier to work with, or make applying them possible with fewer mouse clicks. More effects are non-destructive “lenses” that can be adjusted and switched on or off, similar to Adobe Photoshop lens layers, which is a very useful improvement. While X6 was very stable, I have had the 2025 version crash already several times in just a few days of use (wiping out some work, even with the auto-recovery feature), so be sure to save often. Still, this was a necessary and worthwhile upgrade for me, since I really needed the envelope distortion of inserted bitmaps, and other changes look to be improvements, too.

My first computer was an 8086, does anyone still remember those. I’ve used both Corel and MS over the years and have always preferred Corel. Try this and you won’t be disappointed.

It first CAME OUT. DOES EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANT IT TO DO AND MORE. but…. THIS HAVING TO LOG IN TOYOUR ACCOUNT SUCKS- SOME DAYS I FORGET AND I CANT LOG IN – NOW I KNOW THEY WERE THE MOST COPIED FOR YEARS BIT THEY NEED TO COME UP WITH BETER SECURITY IDEA. AND THEY DO NOT CHECK COLLEGE ENROLLMENT.

It’s great and it is what I expected

Great product, installed with no issues. Very happy.

I love this software!

It is and always has been in my mind the best graphic designer software period. Used it first in 1992. Still love it and gets better every update.

CorelDraw has been a go-to graphics tool for many years in my toolbox. Though creating or editing graphics is not a daily task for me, this tool provides so much flex and ability in design If you’d like, there is a web-based trial that works very well. Pricing for Graphics Suite 2025 comes in either an annual subscription or a one-time purchase so you can decide which is your best value. I am an old-timer and have always preferred the full version over the subscription.If you have a need to create top-level graphics, this one is for you.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is powerful, intuitive, user-friendly, and incredibly versatile. I can do so many things with the suite that I hardly ever have to go anywhere else for my digital design needs.

I own CorelDraw Graphics Suite X7 (boxed version) and have played around with CorelDraw Graphics Suite 2025.The changes are primarily evolutionary and not revolutionary from my perspective. The UI looks mainly the same but with some added niceties (i.e. there is Dark mode in the newer versions). I am still not happy about the object manager docker as it’s always felt clunky and difficult to manage layers and objects. Definitely some improvements with the tools themselves but again they are mainly evolutionary. I am not interested in the “connected” features.CorelDraw X7 is officially certified to work in Windows 10 so I saw no reason to upgrade that. I also have the latest updates from the Corel website for it.Unfortunately, my main issues here are with the licensing system. As mentioned I own a boxed copy of CorelDraw X7. Some time ago Corel completely killed the activation servers for it (and many other old versions of Corel software). You can install and plug in the key (and the key shows up in your Corel account as authenticated), but the software itself won’t activate. Corel had deferred the activation process to a 3rd party system called “ntitles” which has since ceased to exist. You really cannot use the old versions anymore due to activation servers being down.I contacted the Corel customer support and the main response was basically “we don’t support installations of older versions of CorelDraw, and here is a small discount for the latest version”. I don’t want to be forced to drop half a grand to upgrade because the activation servers are down. I would want to activate if there are new features I need/want. So instead of releasing a small update to use the Corel activation server instead of “ntitles” they instead just try to get you to buy the latest version.So even if you were to buy CorelDraw 2025 it’s unknown how long it will work before it becomes unusable due to missing activation support. I just cannot recommend such business model. To me that makes the software unreliable for long term use and I can’t trust that my original .cdr files will be usable going forward.I have finally decided to leave CorelDraw and migrate to Affinity suite. Looks much more modern, is cheaper, has perpetual licensing, and there are versions of Affinity older than CorelDraw X7 that are still working just fine.

An update on my review. I got a quick replay from company when I emailed them about my troubles. They provided a link and I was able to get my copy of the program. My first impression is positive. I was able to bring up a photo and add some text to the image. It was easy and I’m looking forward to using the program more.

This software is horribly slow, not at all GUI friendly and drags re functionality. I am very disappointed in this software and as a technologist am trying to see how to make it work better.

I bought three Ashampoo products and installed them on my PC that never had any trouble. Everything was stable until I installed all three programs. I installed Ashampoo Backup Pro 15, and Ashampoo Burning Studio 23, and Ashampoo Photo Commander 17 all on the same day. They conflicted with the software that I had been using for years. Suddenly my Anti Virus failed, and other software started to do stange things. I had to reset my PC and reinstall Windows. Now I have one of the three on two different machines. I am not going to use Ashampoo Backup Pro 15 any more because Ashampoo Burning Studio 23 also has a Backup Feature.

I use this program to edit my photos. The program works well and does what I want it to. My only issue was that the disk would not start with the autoplay. Apparently, they forgot to put it on the disk? Anyway, it also comes with a link to the website where you can download the program if it wont load from the disk. Download is very slow but, once I got it downloaded and installed, it seems to work perfectly. A little confusing if you are a computer moron like me but, I got it figured out and now, it seems to be working just fine. Nice program for the money.

So many photo editing programs are designed for the professional user. I’m a home photo editor and on some programs can not even find the crop tool or how to save an edited photo. This program, while offering some advance features I don’ need, has the basics easily at hand. I would recommend this for the non-professional occasional user.

Does all the adjustments that the more expensive programs do. Worth the price.

I received two copies of this program and while trying to set up the app it said it was no longer valid and I needed to pay another cost for another version. I find that either a fraud or just really poor management. I packaged it up and returned it (via Amazon) for a refund. Unfortunately no one seems to care about it. While this is a company that has been around for a while with decent inexpensive products, they appear to be expecting most people to simply pay full price again for the program. That makes this a SCAM and even worse because Amazon continues to support them online.

I use Windows 11 and this adds a lot of features to my photos. You can really bring out the color, etc of your photos!

I couldn’t use it because my amazon.com account was a different email as my adobe account

Hard to download; hard to understand; could not get it going

Doesn’t work. Can not diwnload

Keeps locking up in Tahoe.