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6 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Great program, 2005-10-05
Love computers and love photography and this program is at a good price with some pretty high tech tools. It is amazing what can be done with an even average photograph. Now looking to go to a higher end Canon digital 20D because of the great results with Paint shop pro 9. Only concern is the frequency of upgrades. Purchased Version 9 and three months later version 10 is out with very little incentive to upgrade. I have had three versions of Jasc Paint shop pro and it seems like I am paying close to retail every time(even though it is reasonable priced at retail).
There are still a few tools that could be improved: Selection tool and combining/resizing images.
4 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 Paint shop 9, 2005-09-14
Excellent service. Very well pleased. Quick shipment. Product in great shape. Thanks, Debbie
6 of 10 customers found the following review helpful:
Paint Shop Pro RULES!, 2005-09-04
Hi, my internet nickname is StoryMaker and you can call me that. Anyways, PSP9 RULES! I saw on lots of websites "I've edited this with Paint Shop Pro!" and such. I wanted PSP. One christmas I got PSP. It has lots of different brushes and there's tons of cool effects! I still use Paint (the picture editing program that comes with Windows) a lot, but when it's time for some fun, it's time for Paint Shop Pro! (And it's VERY fun!) It even comes with Animation Shop 3 so you can make cool animations and even mini movies! I recommend buying it! Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!"
9 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent for (most) photography work, 2005-08-25
I use this exclusively for photography. I have found it to be MUCH faster that Photoshop for EVERY photo manipulation I have ever tried. Much easier to learn than Photoshop. In my view, Photoshop is more of a tool for graphic designers, and not for photographers. Not to say you can't do graphic design with Paint Shop, I just don't use it for that. The only drawbacks I have found for digital photography work are:
1. Does not support 16 bit images (necessary for the highest commercial, advertising quality photo work) (VERSION X of this product however, does support 16 bit images)
2. Does not support A FEW select photography Plug-Ins that are available only for Photoshop. However, MOST plug ins will work with it, and the few that don't have comparable competitors that do work in Paint SHop.
I love this program, and have now removed Photoshop from my computer for the sake of simplicity keeping only Paint Shop. Hopefully subsequent versions WILL support 16 bit images which is currently the only real drawback to this fine software product.
18 of 18 customers found the following review helpful:
Good photo editing and graphics software, 2005-07-16
I have used Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition and Paint Shop Pro 8 on Windows ME, and Paint Shop Pro 8 and 9 on Windows XP. I also have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and Corel Painter Essentials on my computer.
I must say that of the above programmes PSP Version 9 is the one that really gets used. I love the vector capabilities which are particularly useful for drawing lace diagrams, and I also like the digital camera noise feature and One Step Photo Fix. However One Step Photo Fix is not always the best answer for fixing photos and it's well worth exploring the other tools if your picture doesn't quite come out as you want it to - and sometimes it's necessary to run One Step Photo Fix two or three times.
I'm also not too happy with the length of time it takes for my Plugins folder to load in PSP9. When I launch PSP8, the Plugins are there listed immediately, but in PSP9 just as in PSP7 they take several minutes to load into the computer RAM. I also find on my current computer which has Windows XP Service Pack 2 with 1 GB RAM that PSP9 does freeze and crash from time to time but PSP has always done that on any computer I have owned so I find it is essential to save your graphics regularly as you work - as is recommended in nearly every online graphics tutorial.
Many problems with crashing and freezing can however be resolved by ensuring that you have a good graphics card and at least 512 MB, preferably 1 GB or more of RAM. I found a lot of my problems with PSP7 on my old Windows ME computer disappeared when I increased the amount of RAM although ME's system resource issues are such that problems do remain with using any graphics programme on the Windows ME operating system. I don't have these issues on my Windows XP computer.
It's very disappointing that Corel have chosen not to provide good support for PSP users, but many people thought that that would happen when Corel purchased PSP from Jasc. However there are many online resources and PSP graphics schools and it should be possible to find answers for most problems.
That said I enjoy playing with the new Art Media tools and working with photographs, and I really don't use the other graphics packages I have on my computer system at all - PSP was the first graphics programme that I learned thoroughly and I'm so comfortable with using it that I wouldn't really want to move to anything else. I do think it's an excellent computer graphics programme and will fulfil the needs of most users more than adequately.
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