The program also supports plug-in functionality including those developed for Adobe Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.

The program can open and convert vector formats from CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator and can open other formats, including PNG, JPG and GIF files - as well as competing photo editor formats from Photoshop, GIMP and Paint Shop Pro (the latter also a Corel product). CPT (Corel Photo-Paint Image), which stores image data as well as information within an image, including objects ( layers in some raster editors), colour profiles, text, transparency, effect filters. Corel has marketed a limited edition of Photo-Paint called Corel Photo-Paint SELECT with HP scanning hardware, e.g., the HP ScanJet 5p scanners. In 2006, Corel released version 13 as Photo-Paint X3, employing this naming convention for subsequent releases as well as for CorelDraw, included with Photo-Paint in CorelDraw Graphics Suite. Its primary market competitor is Adobe Photoshop. Corel markets the software for Windows and Mac OS operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux (Version 9, requiring Wine). Corel Photo-Paint is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992.

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