When copying a selection and pasting to a new layer, for example, Photoshop Elements maintained the position of the pasted material, which was often exactly where we wanted it. We also found PaintShop Pro X6 Ultimate slower to use than Photoshop Elements because its interface isn't as elegant. In other tests, including the application of effects, rotating layers and resizing images, Photoshop Elements was between two and 10 times faster. PaintShop Pro X6 opened the 200-megapixel JPEG in three seconds as opposed to Photoshop Elements' six seconds. We saw bigger differences when comparing PaintShop Pro X6 with Photoshop Elements 12. Effects took the same amount of time to adjust and apply. However, X6 resized our 200-megapixel panorama in nine seconds while X5 did it in 15 seconds. We did various performance tests to compare PaintShop Pro X6 with X5, and struggled to find anything that revealed the benefit of X6's 64-bit architecture. The Smart Selection Brush does a passable job of isolating shapes in a photo The JPEG format supports images up to 30,000 pixels wide or tall, but while we could open and edit existing JPEGs of that size (created with the Microsoft ICE panorama stitching software) PaintShop Pro insisted on resizing them to a maximum of 20,000 pixels when we opened the resize dialog box. However, it doesn't support Adobe's PSB format for working with gigapixel images, and it can't create images wider or taller than 20,000 pixels. This should be useful when opening lots of images at once and when working with very large images. PaintShop Pro is now a 64-bit application, which means it can use more memory. Sometimes it was close, but it was usually quicker to start again from scratch with another tool than to correct the multitude of errors. Unfortunately, it had a zero success rate in accurately identifying the subject we wanted to select.
With the Auto Selection tool, the user simply drags a box around the subject to be selected.
It includes a Feather control for softening the edges of the selection but, confusingly, this must be set before using the brush. PaintShop Pro's Smart Selection Brush works in a similar way, with the user drawing over the area to be selected and the software doing its best to guess the edges of the selection. The Auto Selection tool is quick but unreliable
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