Of note, you can now open start in an essentials and complete edit mode, which is the heart and soul of the product.

The pesky opening of trying to sell you other Corel products are gone and there are no pop up ads either. Now, there is a home, manage and edit overall menu items. Gone is the photo adjust work place which was seldom used anyway and essentially using presupplied scripts to create certain photo effects. The overall work space has been completely replaced with a sleeker, refined, opening screen. This review will focus upon this update and how it is different from the previous X9 version.