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Summary: Paint Shop Pro is the best!
Review: Forget Adobe Photoshop whit its cold interface...Paint Shop Pro is more user-friendly,it has LOTS of gadgets,gradients,styles,and you can attach to it almost all the plug-ins in the world.If you need a paint program that won't annoy you and will let you draw whit ease,this is yours. And the quality/price ratio is one of the most convenient you can find.
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Summary: Great software
Review: Previously had Adobe Photoshop Elements(1.0) Paint Shop Pro 7 goes so far beyond PE!.I found ease of use to be roughly equal to PE. To use advanced features you will have to go through a learning curve. Until you want or need the advanced tools just use the automatic enhancement tools for digital images. You will get great results with simple enhacement. There are tons of step by step guides. Just Google and find anything you need. Paint Shop Pro 7 requires a fraction of the memory used by PE. The screen capture and antimation modules are icing on an already tasty cake.
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Summary: Paint Shop Pro--Possibly the best graphics editor!
Review: I rated Paint Shop Pro a 4, because it is vaguely hard to learn. I began by going to jasc.com (i think it was) and downloading the 30 day trial version. I then went to other websites featuring animated tutorials and learned how to create various backgrounds (for use on webpages), image effects, and etc. My friend and I used PSP to create logos for shirts, which we may one day decide to sell. It's really a great program to make anything from webpage dividers to t-shirt logos and anything in between! I know i said it was semi-hard to learn, but thats for advanced website backgrounds. All in all its a fairly simple program to use and i HIGHLY reccomend it. Hope this helped someone!
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Summary: Well worth the money...
Review: For those seeking to edit photos and paint their own pictures in the computer, this program is a steal. (I don't make web pages, so I cannot comment on that. I imagine the other reviewers know what they're talking about!)However, I do edit photos and I do draw. PSP offers a lot to beginners and experienced artists alike. However, if you have never used a raster bitmap graphics program, PSP can be a trial. But so can every other graphics program out there. Corel's (Procreate's) Painter 7 is a world beater, but the learning curve is vastly beyond PSP. I would recommend Painter 7 for very serious computer artists, but this one will do excellent work for the beginner, especially novice artists. Editing photos is fun, though not necessarily easy, with any of these programs, but PSP designers show a sense of humor with some of the new brushes. One looks like a 3D green and blue blob. I don't know what anyone would do with it, but it is fun to spread across the canvas. Think of painting with a tube of bi-colored paint. The brush engine is far better than the early versions of PSP, but I still don't see any buildup (transparent) brushes. If anyone knows how to do this in Paintshop Pro, please inform me. It's this lack which keeps me from giving it a full five stars, even at the price. Photoshop and Painter handle this easily and it is a property I demand from any painting program- for one thing, it helps make editing photographs much easier. Also, I found this program's handling of layers rather clumsy... maybe it is my fault, but the other programs handle them excellently. If something claims to give great value for the money, then it should at least handle the minimum requirements for the jobs it's supposed to do. There are graphics programs out there even less expensive than PSP, but give Photoshop a good run for its money. Adobe Photoshop is expensive compared to either Painter 7 or PSP and does little beyond PSP for most home users. Actually, it's much more expensive than either one. PSP is a good buy, with a bunch of weird and beautiful brushes.
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Summary: new is not always better
Review: Just purchased paintshop pro 7.0.
The product is quite helpful but appears to do less than the 5.0 version and is more complicated as well. With 5.0, you could "click" on "browse" and get thumbnail prints.
The same process results in NOTHING with version 7.0.
A new box and a higher price does little to make up for the fact that this version is clearly inferrior to it's predicessors.
I consider my money wasted. The 5.0 version was far better.
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Summary: A bit dissapointed...
Review: Perhaps it's the fact that I owned Adobe Photoshop 7 before I bought this software, but I noticed nothing unique about it. Only reason I can find to buy Paint Shop Pro 7 would be the cheaper price tag.
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Summary: For the Majority of Computer Users It is Fabulous
Review: I'm an artist so although I used this product extensively for a year or more, the day dawned where I needed to upgrade to the industry powerhouse of graphics' programs, Photoshop. Photoshop is a very difficult, expensive and challenging program though and unless you are a photographer or an artist, you can probably do as well or better with Paint Shop Pro 7. It is easier to learn and operate and does an enormous range of image editing tasks. I've produced excellent original art work on it. I also have edited or manipulated images with ease. It comes in at 1/6th the cost of Photoshop and for a vast pool of users out there, it more than does the job. For my own students, for one, who are going to image edit digital pictures they take of houses, this program is more than enough.
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Summary: GREAT TO WORK WITH!
Review: I love to Make Graphics, and one day I downloaded the Free Trail of this. Even though I havent really bought it yet, its FANTASTIC to work with and its better than any other online computer graphic designer out there!
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Summary: More than a design program
Review: I love this program, I have used it for 1 year, and it have everything photoshop have, you can design your photos, get off the errors of its, you can work with a lot of creative text, with color, shadows, deforming,(in photoshop you have to work with the standar text) you can also used paint shop pro like freehand, with the paint tools, and deforming them like warps, This program have 3 in one for a less price of money, And even a child of 13 years learn how to used this software in hours... I recomend this 5 star Babe. ...Buy it!!
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Summary: If there's no one to teach you, don't waste your money
Review: This is a powerful program, but it suffers from a horribly non-intuitive user interface, and worse, the documentation is not only very incomplete and seriously lacking in examples, but it is downright wrong in an embarassingly large number of places. Following along in the few examples it does offer, does not create the results you're expecting from the documentation. Drop-down menus either don't appear as expected or the options you need are grayed out, the result isn't what the example says it will be, etc. The result is that the few examples (that are usually irrelevant to what you want to do) are themselves generally useless. The result is a terribly long learning learning curve, and it's not steep, just long. It took me *days* to figure out how to do sculpted text with a drop shadow, and I still haven't figured out how to draw a simple circle segment. It's not that I'm that dense; I've learned other graphics programs in a few hours and been productive by the end of the day. Visio is a much better choice for vector graphics, and Ulead PhotoImpact is better for raster image manipulation. Would that Jasc would just simply rewrite the program from scratch, learning from these guys how to write a user interface. As for documentation, the first law of technical writing is to have a naive user try to learn the program from your draft docs; Jasc has either not done that or they clearly haven't documented solutions to the problems that the naive user runs into. The net result is docs that seem to assume that you know things you don't - and the miserably small index doesn't help you find them out, either. If you must learn and use this program by yourself, get one of the third-party books that documents it, and once your program's installed, toss the Jasc documentation in the trash.
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