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Summary: This is so fun to use
Review: Before I finally got the nerve up to order this product I would catch myself imagining all sorts of problems. That was not the case. PPSP9 is an awesome product. And while it is not the easiest thing to use I have ordered/used it wasn't the hardest.I would definitely recommend people who wants to do more with thier pics to get this. You will be surprised at how easy it is to use, how much fun it is to use, and how much you can do with this. Yes definitely rates a 5 star.
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Summary: upgrade from version 7
Review: I upgraded to PSP 8 and love it. PSP 8 has been rewritten from the ground up and it shows. The background eraser, scripting, eyedroppers for black and white points, excellent photo tools and customizable interface make this version the best ever. I really love the way you can change and control almost everything from menus to buttons in PSP 8, making the user interface truly something you can use. In my opinion, PSP 8 is the only software the average person would need for photo enhancements and/or web graphics. Most of my use is for enhancing my photos from my 2 digital cameras. This new version makes many of my tasks much easier than before.
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Summary: Takes Some Learning but is Worth it!
Review: If you are coming to PSP8 from PSP7. you may have some difficulty since many things {I understand} are changed, but coming to it new, as I did, it is more and more becoming a pleasure to use as I learn more about it. There is an excellent one-click "Enhance pictures" button and it is also easy to do the various steps like increase saturation and balance colors separately if you wish to do so. Particular things that I like are the efficient background eraser, tubes {little pictures that can be "squirted" onto a picture} a very nice easy-to-do framing procedure and lots and lots and lots of interesting effects from artistic to just plain weird. In addition, there are some pre-written scripts which do such useful things as putting a border and a simple caption on a picture to converting a picture into a credible facsimile of a watercolor. If you are prepared to put some time into learning this program, it will do everything you need to enhance your photographs and enable you to produce some pretty good graphics of your own.
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Summary: Adobe Wannabe
Review: I loved Paint Shop Pro 6 and 7, but each version seems to be more and more like Adobe Photoshop. If I wanted to use Adobe, I would buy that instead of Paint Shop Pro. Eight is difficult to get along with. There are a few more tools added in, but everything is rearranged. Also the layer pallete is built into the side, and to change the opacity you can't just slide the slider like before. Now you have to go through a complicated process just to find it. I recommended Paint Shop Pro to a friend that was new at photo editing, she had a hard time with eight. It's not as user friendly, which is another thing I use to like about psp. Stick with Paint Shop Pro seven unless you want a terrible clone of Photoshop.
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Summary: Paint Shop Pro 8-lots of features and very good
Review: PSP will please both hobbyists and professional artists. It has dozens of options and features. However, one caveat: the learning curve is very steep, so get a couple of books about it when you buy PSP.
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Summary: Paint Sho Pro 8-best yet
Review: I just received my new copy and improvements over 7 are great.
As reviewed the background eraser is super, saves a lot of work
when doing tubes. I ony wish I could find a new Idiot's book to
help. Would recommend to everyone.
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Summary: The best got better.....
Review: Thought PSP 7 was great? Try this! I moved on to PSP 7 from PhotoShop 5.5 when PS was getting too expensive. I expected to lose a lot of the functionality of PS but was very pleasantly surprised.
Now with PSP 8, jasc have outdone themselves with a product that shines. We are all used to new versions and I suppose we start to get a bit jaded to get asked for more money for a new product that, in a lot of cases, is hardly better than the previous one.
That doesnt apply with PSP 8. It really is a great improvement on an already great product. For example: Scan an old faded photo in, press the "One step photo fix" and just look at the results unfold before your eyes! Astounding! This is one of the many new fully customisable "script" features.
And that`s just one of the many time savers this program has.
BUY IT!!!
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Summary: Getting better
Review: I love PSP. I've used it since version 3, and I've always been impressed by what I could do with it. Paint Shop Pro 8 (and by "8" I'm really referring to "8.1") is the best yet. More intuitive, more features, etc. I have only 2 complaints that keep it from being 5 stars. One is that - depending on your RAM and CPU - it can take awhile to load its very large .dll library. It uses a lot of resources to do what it does. The other continues to be a peeve with me: the online help. For a product that does as much as it does, the help is far better than even version 5, but still not at the level of quality it could or should be. (For example, the online help says I can change the ruler increments in the Units box. It doesn't tell me where to FIND the "Units box.") If you're going to spend money on a powerful graphics package, this is a bargain compared to the wildly overpriced and overrated Adobe product and does the job just as well.
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Summary: Paint Shop Pro rulez!
Review: I purchased this program mainly to edit photos as I had heard it was pretty good at it. The first photo I edited on it was a slide I scanned in that my daughter had picked up at auction and we had no idea what it was. The one-step photo cleaned it up in virtually no time - it was a picture of Paris! After that, I wondered what else I could do with it, since it looked like it could do more. I ended up having to take online classes - and they are readily available all over the net - and am now making graphics I could have never done before. I don't consider myself particularly artistic, and I had never used graphics programs before other than to edit photos. Now, I am making animated graphics (Animation Shop is included), and am making some totally awesome graphics.
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Summary: It is ok
Review: Paint Shop Pro version 8.1 is incredible! It's powerful, flexible, and a very good price! If you have an earlier version, just the Effects Browser upgrade alone is worth it. I'm amazed at what I can do with this, and I'm still exploring. It contains all you need!
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