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Any Paint Shop Pro users?

To make a long story short, I finally decided to save $500 or so and bought Paint Shop Pro 8 instead of PhotoShop CS. I had used the PhotoShop 7 Trial for 30 days and I really liked it, but $500 is a lot of money (of course, my wife helped me make the decision).

I'm not having nearly as much luck figuring out PSP. The tools seem less flexible and less controllable. Can anyone who uses PSP help me get going?

My favorite tools in PS7 were the white level, gray level, and black level eyedroppers and the unsharp mask. So far, I haven't been able to find similar functioning tools in PSP. I have found automatic commands that make adjustments like the PS7 eyedroppers, but I haven't figured out how to control them to do what I want - they just do what they do and that's it.

Thanks, Tim

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Oops..........

...... I should have looked a little harder before asking. I have found all of that stuff, now.

My problem was relying on their "Learning Center" tutorials, which were only discussing the automatic ways of doing things. When I just started poking through the menus, I found "Black and White Balance" (which includes gray balance) and "Unsharp". All of these work just about like in PhotoShop.

I think I am on my way to understanding PSP. I hope I didn't bother everyone. But, if anyone wants to offer tips, I'd still like to discuss them.

Tim

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Tim it sounds like you are on your way with Paint Shop Pro….... I’m sorry that I can’t offer any tips … but I do look forward to seeing the results you come up with using it particularly how well it can do B&W

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I think I did pretty well. I adjusted black and gray levels and applied an unsharp mask.

Here's the original:



And after my edits:



Since I'm just starting, I welcome your ideas.

Thanks, Tim

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I use both PSP and PS, PSP has come one heck of a long ways, was originally designed strictly as an image editor for the net, these days it competes with the big boys, at a price most us can afford. If u really wanna know the program inside and out, I would suggest doing a search for "psp 8 tutorials" also there is a KILLER usenet group for psp, that is frequented often by the makers of the program. Here is a link http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=....paint-shop-pro

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Thank you, John. I had looked for a PSP usenet group, but I didn't find it because I didn't think to enter those dashes. I will check it out, soon.

Tim

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No problemo! Also you may wanna take a stroll over to yahoogroups.com and check out the hundreds of user groups for psp there as well. Under search type in psp, paintshop pro, paint shop pro

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Pictures taken with a Minolta s414
And Minolta X 370

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From what I've heard and seen, Paint Shop Pro will do just about anything the average user might want. About the only thing is not being able to use the vast variety of actions that are available. But this isn't that big of a deal.

Very nice job on the edit....picture looks good.

bud

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Actually, the latest edition of psp, version 8, does run actions, they are called scripts. check it out http://www.google.com/search?q=psp+...-8&oe=utf-8

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Pictures taken with a Minolta s414
And Minolta X 370

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Hi, I just started using PSP 8.10. I tried the free trial of 8.01 and liked it. I bought version 8.00 on line and then they sent me the update disk to 8.10 for free. I had already downloaded the update. I really like it . Here are some other sites you may want to check out: PSP Usergroup PSPIZ PSP Links I hope these can be some help for you. I have found some help on them. Like someone else has mentioned, type psp into a search engine like google.

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"There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs." -[i]Ansel Adams[/i]

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Thanks, LLMc. I have discovered so many PSP resources now that I'm having trouble looking at them all.

Tim

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