<story><title>KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/kkr-has-acquired-corel-including-its-recent-acquisition-parallels-reportedly-for-1b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>PSP was one of the few products that made Windows productive. It loaded quickly, worked smoothly, and the UI was elegant in a way that the PS UI still isn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Many things about PS still irritate users in a &amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s just wrong, stupid, and annoyingly poorly thought out, and why do you keep adding pointless new features instead of fixing this?&amp;quot; kind of a way. [1]&lt;p&gt;PSP didn&amp;#x27;t do as much, but a lot of what it did do was more transparent and effortless.&lt;p&gt;When Corel bought it, they turned it into PSP Pro X Plus Special Edition Platinum Millennium Marketing Bullshit Edition. All kinds of cruft appeared, some of it was entertaining, very little of it was useful, none of it was elegant or beautiful.&lt;p&gt;[1] PSP had a &amp;quot;Create new from clipboard&amp;quot; option which created a new image from the clipboard with a single click. Boom. Done. In PS you have to select a new placeholder from a list of all other possible sizes, possibly after some scrolling and selecting, and then manually paste the image into the document. And now you have an image layer and a background layer, which is often not what you want.</text></item><item><author>chao-</author><text>As an adamant aficionado of PSP over Photoshop, I never forgave Corel for buying Jasc and turning PSP into just another CorelDRAW. If I had wanted CorelDRAW, I would have purchased CorelDRAW. I did not. I wanted Paintshop Pro, and I had it, for a time.&lt;p&gt;A decade and a half later, though, my feelings are mostly numb.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Why did I like PSP over PS? At the time, PSP had better support for my tablet, and had hotkeys that made more intuitive sense for me. I did use PS for a while, sparingly from 2010 to 2015. In the long run, I don&amp;#x27;t do art anymore, and mostly just web design, for which my company uses Figma anyway. Occasionally we might contact something from a UX designer who uses Sketch, but we just import it into Figma anyway. Photoshop might as well not exist as far as I am concerned.</text></item><item><author>atombender</author><text>Corel seems like it&amp;#x27;s become a graveyard of old programs I used in the 1990s, like WinZip, PaintShop Pro and, amazingly, WordPerfect. And, of course, Corel Draw.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and this September will be see 40-year anniversary of WordPerfect [1]. (Though WP for DOS only came out in 1982.)&lt;p&gt;I wonder what their strategy is with this acquisition, since there must be some money in there still.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;~em36&amp;#x2F;wpdos&amp;#x2F;chronology.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;~em36&amp;#x2F;wpdos&amp;#x2F;chronology.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GlennS</author><text>Another piece of software that I thought made Windows productive in the 90s was Microsoft Publisher.&lt;p&gt;We got this bundled with...something? Maybe a printer? And I used it a lot for schoolwork. It was clean, neat and powerful. You could use it to layout a page really easily.&lt;p&gt;At some point they stopped selling it to normal people and brought out Microsoft Home Publishing instead. And of course it was complete crap by comparison.&lt;p&gt;I have since discovered that Adobe Illustrator is better than both.</text></comment>
<story><title>KKR has acquired Corel, reportedly for $1B</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/02/kkr-has-acquired-corel-including-its-recent-acquisition-parallels-reportedly-for-1b/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TheOtherHobbes</author><text>PSP was one of the few products that made Windows productive. It loaded quickly, worked smoothly, and the UI was elegant in a way that the PS UI still isn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Many things about PS still irritate users in a &amp;quot;That&amp;#x27;s just wrong, stupid, and annoyingly poorly thought out, and why do you keep adding pointless new features instead of fixing this?&amp;quot; kind of a way. [1]&lt;p&gt;PSP didn&amp;#x27;t do as much, but a lot of what it did do was more transparent and effortless.&lt;p&gt;When Corel bought it, they turned it into PSP Pro X Plus Special Edition Platinum Millennium Marketing Bullshit Edition. All kinds of cruft appeared, some of it was entertaining, very little of it was useful, none of it was elegant or beautiful.&lt;p&gt;[1] PSP had a &amp;quot;Create new from clipboard&amp;quot; option which created a new image from the clipboard with a single click. Boom. Done. In PS you have to select a new placeholder from a list of all other possible sizes, possibly after some scrolling and selecting, and then manually paste the image into the document. And now you have an image layer and a background layer, which is often not what you want.</text></item><item><author>chao-</author><text>As an adamant aficionado of PSP over Photoshop, I never forgave Corel for buying Jasc and turning PSP into just another CorelDRAW. If I had wanted CorelDRAW, I would have purchased CorelDRAW. I did not. I wanted Paintshop Pro, and I had it, for a time.&lt;p&gt;A decade and a half later, though, my feelings are mostly numb.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Why did I like PSP over PS? At the time, PSP had better support for my tablet, and had hotkeys that made more intuitive sense for me. I did use PS for a while, sparingly from 2010 to 2015. In the long run, I don&amp;#x27;t do art anymore, and mostly just web design, for which my company uses Figma anyway. Occasionally we might contact something from a UX designer who uses Sketch, but we just import it into Figma anyway. Photoshop might as well not exist as far as I am concerned.</text></item><item><author>atombender</author><text>Corel seems like it&amp;#x27;s become a graveyard of old programs I used in the 1990s, like WinZip, PaintShop Pro and, amazingly, WordPerfect. And, of course, Corel Draw.&lt;p&gt;Oh, and this September will be see 40-year anniversary of WordPerfect [1]. (Though WP for DOS only came out in 1982.)&lt;p&gt;I wonder what their strategy is with this acquisition, since there must be some money in there still.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;~em36&amp;#x2F;wpdos&amp;#x2F;chronology.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.columbia.edu&amp;#x2F;~em36&amp;#x2F;wpdos&amp;#x2F;chronology.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andybak</author><text>&amp;gt; PSP had a &amp;quot;Create new from clipboard&amp;quot; option&lt;p&gt;Since forever (probably since PS 2.4 or so) choosing &amp;quot;New Document&amp;quot; in Photoshop defaults to the size of the document on the clipboard. My workflow is: Copy in one app &amp;gt; Switch to PS &amp;gt; CMD + N &amp;gt; Hit Enter &amp;gt; CMD + V</text></comment>