Customer Reviews

Corel KPT 6.0

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OH MAN does it rock! This is fully compatible with Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, and as a PSP user, I was happy for that. Once I got it fired up on my system, I went to town with the Lens Flare filter. The KPT Gel was great for making some kickin' surreal effects and I intend to use it a bunch.

For those who don't want to drop 300 bucks American on Bryce4, there's a reasonable "quick-hit" scene building tools here for making atmospheres and terrains. I still prefer Bryce for my BIG jobs, but these are great for quick'n'dirty jobs.

The fact I am rattling off these filters from memory should tell you how absolutely cool they are. I've used the others to provide selective photographic retouching effects, and the KPT Equalizer is GREAT for that stuff. You have to see it and read the manual to belive it.

If you mess around with graphics for fun or profit, get this set of plug-ins and you'll be trippin' on the FX, dude!

I have a copy of this software and I installed it (again) today. It will not work on 64-bit versions of Photoshop -- the plugins will not appear in the filter menu at all. Also, it will only work on 8-bit images.

I reviewed this on a 32-bit Photoshop CS4 running on 64-bit Windows 7.

One of the most frustrating things about this product is that the designers never figured that displays would get any larger than they were at the turn of the century. The work area is like viewing the world through a soda straw. You can't resize the windows (too hard for the developer, I guess).

I think a lot of the effects provided here can be done better within newer versions of Photoshop.

There are a lot of Photoshop plugins that mainly make your original look worse. This is probably better than that, but with the design limitation mentioned in the last paragraph, and the total lack of support, and a very high asking price, why bother?

Well, after about 6 months I have discovered something interesting, KPT6 is pointless. The menus have maintained their always-cool style but really there is nothing here. Almost anything KTP6 can do can be done better with Photoshop alone. To bad, it used to really be a cool, time saving bundle. Seems as though Corel has managed to destroy another fine product...