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Hi
I have been happy with ancient paint shop pro 7 for long enough, but a fright recently when the program wouldn’t load and I couldn’t find the disk either prompted me to think about upgrading. However, when I started searching on the net, I found that programs seemed seriously geared towards photography and overlooked other types of graphics. I do edit photos, but I am more likely to be doing creative work such as a cartoonist might do, by starting with a blank window or a drawing from the scanner.
I need all the effects and drawing-type tools such as flood-fill (including graduated colours), colour replacer, sharpen, greyscale, gamma correction, invert selection, resize, save as gif or jpg and so on. No doubt there are more effect-type tools now available which I would find useful.
One disappointment in PSP was poor text manipulation: I once needed to write text round a cylindrical shape but it just did not seem possible.
One frustration I am finding while searching for alternative programs on the net is a seeming unwillingness by manufacturers to display an example of a working page, so that I could see the environment and the tools I would be working with.
I look forward to readers’ suggestions for a package which I would find exciting and rewarding to use.
Josh
I have been happy with ancient paint shop pro 7 for long enough, but a fright recently when the program wouldn’t load and I couldn’t find the disk either prompted me to think about upgrading. However, when I started searching on the net, I found that programs seemed seriously geared towards photography and overlooked other types of graphics. I do edit photos, but I am more likely to be doing creative work such as a cartoonist might do, by starting with a blank window or a drawing from the scanner.
I need all the effects and drawing-type tools such as flood-fill (including graduated colours), colour replacer, sharpen, greyscale, gamma correction, invert selection, resize, save as gif or jpg and so on. No doubt there are more effect-type tools now available which I would find useful.
One disappointment in PSP was poor text manipulation: I once needed to write text round a cylindrical shape but it just did not seem possible.
One frustration I am finding while searching for alternative programs on the net is a seeming unwillingness by manufacturers to display an example of a working page, so that I could see the environment and the tools I would be working with.
I look forward to readers’ suggestions for a package which I would find exciting and rewarding to use.
Josh
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