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Old 2007-02-15, 4:00pm
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I see lots of tuts on photoshop is there any for paintshop pro?
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Old 2007-02-15, 6:08pm
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Not really. That's the downside of using Brand X. Everything's written for Photoshop, and it's hard even to buy a decent book on PSP.

A lot of the tools are fairly similar, so you can translate the advice given for Photoshop to Paintshop. Paintshop has Levels and histograms like Photoshop, so Scott Tanner's tutorials translate pretty well once you figure out where the features are located in PSP.

If you do some Googling, you can find some info on Paintshop, if you have a specific question. It's tough, though, because people tend to abbreviate it like I just did, and most PSP references are Playstation . . .
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Old 2007-02-16, 5:15am
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Thanks Emily, i have both photoshop & PSP but i took photoshop off my comp because i always end up going back to PSP lol
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Old 2007-02-16, 11:08am
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That's funny. I was playing with some pictures last night, using Scott's tutorial, and I'm changing my mind about how well they work with PaintShop.

I have PaintShop Pro 9, and it has tools that do the same things that the Levels tools in Photoshop do, but they don't show you histograms (most of them don't, anyway), so it feels like you're working half-blind. I was getting frustrated. I don't do much with images, and it's a long time between photo editing sessions for me, so every time I do it, I'm teaching myself from scratch.

I'm thinking about buying myself a copy of Elements. It makes me mad, because I know I have a tool that will do everything that Elements will do and more, but I don't want to invest the time that I need to train my eye to the extent that Paint Shop feels like it's going to require.

There may be more histograms in later versions of Paint Shop Pro. I think Version 9 is kind of a weird intermediate version -- it wasn't one of their big upgrades. Version X seems to have gotten a lot more stuff in it, and XI even more, but I'm not upgrading unless I can do it for ten bucks (which is how I got from 7 to 9).
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Old 2007-02-16, 11:45am
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I also have PSP 9, at the moment im using 7 and i think im used to it, ive been using it for a few years now, ive just put photoshop back on my pc, but it just frustrates me LOL, i keep hearing about these "elements" i take it that its an extra you have to buy?
i will just have to keep playing and see what happens...
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Old 2007-02-16, 12:01pm
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No, you're good. Elements is the mini-version of Photoshop for consumers and non-professionals. It comes pre-packaged on some computers but not on mine. I guess "Photoshop Elements" is probably its full name. It has most things that a non-professional would need.
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Old 2007-02-16, 4:35pm
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I have PSP 7 too, and hated what they did to ver 8, so I stayed LOL It seemed like everything I loved about 7 was changed in 8.

I can do a lot of stuff, and I know there's a ton (like masks) that I would use if I took the time to figure it out. LOL

For the most part, I think it's a good enough program to handle anything I'd want to do. Scott Tanner's instructions did help me, and I use them quite a bit with my camera.

With my scanner, I don't even need that. So I've learned that the quality of the image and what I can do with it is sometimes due to the origin of the image, not PSP.
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I have PSP X and I was completely lost trying to figure out how to translate the levels tutorial. The levels and histograms are completely different than in photoshop. I did find the tool for setting white balance after a lot of looking. Makes me mad - I wish I had spent my $$ on photoshop instead.
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