You don't have to be an artist to create some really cool looking images with these filters in PhotoPaint 8. Animations can be created right in PhotoPaint. You don't have to have multiple applications open for importing and exporting or copying and pasting from the clip board. Corel PhotoPaint 8 is an awesome program and extremely easy to use. I haven't mastered the software yet, it will take some time to learn all the features that are included in PhotoPaint 8.
Images can be transformed, resampled, stitched, and many more options are available.
Just about everything you can think of that you need to create just the right image is included in PhotoPaint 8. Amazing effects are achieved in PhotoPaint with simple mouse clicks. More effects than I could hope to cover here. A very simple image created from a blank image and an image included in PhotoPaint 8 is below on the left. It's a teapot and two of the effects included in PhotoPaint 8 and only took seconds to make.