Well now, I must go tell that to my ever sarcastic boyfriend (Sometimes, makes me wish he'll drop his sarcasm once in a while, but that's what he lives on.. sooo )

I was wondering just a couple of days ago, when Jasc would be coming out with a new version.
/me is excited.........

Has anyone noticed, JPEG 2000 is supported?

Hmmm, it saved my .bmp files in an unrecognizable format and the dumb thing keeps crashing on me.

I like the fact that after a crash, it will bring you back to where you left off.

I tried a .bmp save and it worked okay here...

I'm diggin' the font preset tool...pretty nifty.

I'm on my older desktop puter right now...250-mb of Sdram...70-mb vid ram (recently installed new vid card upgrade ) It definitely runs and loads a bit slower than psp 7.04...and I have a TON of filters in 7.04 and I wonder how long 8.0 would load if it had to load those too? Goodness!

JPEG 2000? Never even heard-O-dat before. Must be a better quality compression?

oops...I meant 64-mb vid ram

The hardest thing is re-recognizing all of the shortcuts now that the pictures have changed.

Anyone understand how to use the scripting to save your preferences?
I'm not having any luck with it, but I know diddly about scripts.

JPEG 2000 info--- > http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991228S0028

This thread turned me on to paint shop pro.
I downloaded the free try it version tonight.
Thought I would try it out and see what I think.

I downloaded the beta and have been playing around with it. They've redesigned the interface and shuffled some of the features around...so I'm spending most of my time trying to find things.

I've been teaching myself v7 and just started to get the hang of it...now I need to start over. Not sure if I want to go for the new version yet.

Paint shop pro. Hmmmmmmm.... .. .
Oh boy!!!A whole lot of lights just came on in my little brain.Heehe

Beta Two is out.

hey guys... is Paint shop pro really good? are there layers like photoshop? esy to make transparencies for png files?

After the tools in the new beta are aranged the way your use to, the program is the same as the old versions. It does have a Photoshop look but is no Photoshop.

If I didn't have Paintshop I would buy the new version but the older version will do just as well.

Take a closer look Sally, this is not PSP 7 with a face lift. And why do you say it's no Photoshop as if there's something wrong? What advantage does PS have over PSP? Not trying to start a war, I'm just curious why people dismiss PSP that way.

Koasati: I think the idea is that you start recording a script and then go through the preferences setting it as you wish it. Then you save the script. If you copy the actual script file itself somewhere else safe then if you have to reinstall you can always just shove it back in and run the script to be back to your favourite settings. I haven't actually tried this myself but I imagine that's what it means.

Beta 8 is gggggggggreat! I've been having a blast with all the new and improved features and interface. I can't wait to buy it $oon!

If anyone wants to load my workspace with customized toolbars for 8.0 you can here: http://www.darkseraphim.com/psp_workspace.zip

It took me almost two hours to customize...but now I'll have it all ready for me when it is release.

Yes, pipowell...the scripts are for recording a set 'routine' such as blur...drop shadow...flood fill I think. I played out some of the PSP scripts...it was neat to watch in action.

Being a comp-user on the cheap, PSP 7 AE was the first true graphics prog I ever bought, and I get so much out of it, I really see no reason to change, but this may change now.

I remember using a demo version of PhotoShop 3.0 on a Macintosh Sys 7.5 w/8MB of ram. Those were the days when programmers knew what "clean and mean" meant.

V8 is pretty cushy...don't think I'll ever be able to use v7 again!

Lots of new stuff to learn

I see there's already an update

I've been looking at the internal coding of them and I think it would save me sooo much time in laborious things like putting 50 PNG's in a line for a DX object animation. Just need to work out how to write the code for it.

/me goes off to learn python.

jake! You are quite in the 'know' eh?

/me has only been using a computer for 5 years but enjoys them headaches and all!

pj - Yep, I learned in the newsgroup, that to record a script for setting preferences, you have to start from default, and record the tweaking. I don't want to start over right now, so I saved my Workspace......... I'll probably record the script when I install the next release.
Scripts are going to be very handy.

Yes Shnoopy, I have been around for a long, long time...

Actually, that Mac was a "give em somethin' for cryin out loud, maybe he will leave us alone", from one of our ministers. It came with a handful of CD's from Mac Addict Mag, and it was all I had for 4 years, it was already 3 years old.

I still have it and use it from time to time

I guess a closer look at this version is in order. From what I seen so far is a few new features but mostly the same features with some icing.

The jury is still out!

I should add that I don't have Photoshop. I have the trial 6.0 but most of it is disabled. It won't allow a save but is not on a time bomb.
What works is great and I only wish I could afford Photoshop. I have Acrobat 5 and Pagemaker which I seldom use and would gladly trade both in a heartbeat for Photoshop.