🧡 Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 🧡

What a wonderful graphics program, even today after over 20 years! 🥰

I started a little repository of scripts that help improve the user experience of this gem. 💎

Just added a script that automatically selects the "pan" tool when clicking the middle mouse button, just like in most modern tools. 🙂

(also works with PSP8 & 9)

#PaintShopPro #PaintShopPro7 #AutoHotkey #Productivity #Graphics

https://github.com/DukeOfGermany/psp_classic_tools

@CaptainFlab @boilingsteam @harshad
More Adobe alternatives:

Dozens of free PDF makers

#Inkscape and #Scribus and #GIMP -- free

#WindowsMovieMaker -- officially discontinued but still available (though it's not really a good alternative to Premiere Elements, Adobe's best product)

#PaintShopPro not free, but cheap (and possibly the only thing Corel has maintained well after buying it)

@MrBehemo @ga5p0d3 @HauntedOwlbear

By now, I found my CD-Roms of PSP8 & PSP9, and installed them. 🙂 Main difference for me: no more floating tool windows, which I like! ⭐

One small issue: copy/pasting from or to other graphics programs (e.g. Gimp, Krita) loses all transparency information. 😢

Question to you PSP experts: do you know a way to fix this? 🙂

#PaintShopPro

Yesterday, I found my old CD-ROM of

🎨 Paint Shop Pro 7 🎨

("Anniversary Edition" from 2001 by Jasc Software).

Turns out: it runs flawlessly on my Windows 11 system. 😮

It is hard to overstate how much mileage I got out of this software back in the days. ✨

And it looks like I am not done! Pinned it to the taskbar, and now I am using it productively again! 💜

100 Euros well spent in 2001! 😄

#PaintShopPro

I have used #Gimp #Inkscape and other image editors over the years, but the one I still use to this day is PSP7 - Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition, first released on 22 August 2001. Yes, this software will be 22 years old this year and it still works perfectly in all flavours of #windows and in all distros of #linux via #Wine.
OK, it may not process raw images, but as for anything else you can do to photos, PSP7 can handle it. There is also a GIF animator built in.
#PSP7 #PaintShopPro

I have used #Gimp #Inkscape and other image editors over the years, but the one I still use to this day is PSP7 - Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition, first released on 22 August 2001. Yes, this software will be 22 years old this year and it still works perfectly in all flavours of #windows and in all distros of #linux via #Wine.
OK, it may not process raw images, but as for anything else you can do to photos, PSP7 can handle it. There is also a GIF animator built in.
#PSP7 #PaintShopPro

I have used #Gimp #Inkscape and other image editors over the years, but the one I still use to this day is PSP7 - Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition, first released on 22 August 2001. Yes, this software will be 21 years old this year and it still works perfectly in all flavours of #windows and in all distros of #linux via #Wine.
OK, it may not process raw images, but as for anything else you can do to photos, PSP7 can handle it. There is also a GIF animator built in.
#PSP7 #PaintShopPro

And today's #photoshop #PaintShopPro look back is for 2008. It was the last year for that web competition, so the special holiday events were at an end (though I do have a few extras to come!). More pixel graphics came my way... so, the wreath & trees are cute, but the background to me makes it too busy. The pumpkin, I guess finally figured I needed some #cats in one! And the snowman, well, definitely something I had to figure out, but why not try to get a droid there - so here's #R2D2 !

Today's #photoshop and #PaintShopPro look back goes to 2007. The pumpkin - hey, if I did a #StarWars one previously, I had to include a #StarTrek one! Probably liked it then, but eh, it's a little busy to me now (and would go with either TNG or DS9 now too). As are the wreath and tree, but then I had discovered sites with #pixel art sets, so was using those now - and I still loved that red background! But still love that snowman - well, snowlady, because yep, #ILoveLucy :)

Today's visit to my #holiday #photoshop #PaintShopPro contest graphics, it's to 2006. And here, I like the matching graphics in the tree (still a bit busy though), the wreath's kind of okay, just a really busy background - but the stars of this bunch: with the snowman, I figured hey, if I had an #Ernie, I need his friend, so here's #Bert - and the pumpkin, well, I had to get #Vader in one at some point! Think I might have tried a Vader snowman, but it just didn't work at all... LOL

In today's look back at my #holiday tries at #photoshop and #PaintShopPro - we visit 2005. And let's just say because the movie was released in December of 2004, I totally discovered #Phantom of the Opera. ;) #POTO

Looking at it now, I rather like the wreath, but the tree is driving me nuts that the pixel or other graphics really don't match each other in style or colors. Oh well. LOL

Today's #photoshop and #PaintShopPro look back is from 2004. This year's pumpkin looking at it now is a little busy, but still quite spacey... and the snowman, well, did I ever mention I still love #SesameStreet and my most favorite character is #Ernie? Well, think that's obvious now. LOL Still very proud of it. And the tree's not bad, just it's driving me nuts that the top ribbon isn't matching the colors with the ones hanging down that I drew myself, but that's just me.😉

So, I had the thought to put something actually original of mine as a post here... once upon a time, when my websites were part of many web competitions, for the holidays this one had graphics contests; and me, since I was trying to learn the basics of #photoshop but most especially #PaintShopPro #PSP I tried to do them in my own way. I'll do it year by year since that's how I have them saved, starting with 2003 (alas, all I have from 2002 are the awards for them). Watch for the reply to this!

Okay, I'm a little late, but can I play? Kaleidoscope images created using #Corel #PaintshopPro and derived from my own photos and graphics work.
#KaleidoSaturday

Pretty sure I did all the graphics back then with #paintshoppro, though it's possible I had a liberated version of #photoshop by then.

The well-known German #Software #retailer #Pearl gives #PaintShopPro for free, purely against shipping costs.
For those who still use Windows, this is a very interesting offer!

Ach ja, apropos #Corel, der ja der Hersteller u.a. von #PaintshopPro ist:
Dieses benennt sich nun in #Alludo um.
Na, ja.
https://www.it-business.de/corel-startet-neues-branding-alludo-a-06cd2839a7e3fc8e0208cf058df69976/

Der bekannte #Software #Händler #Pearl gibt #PaintShopPro gratis, rein gegen Versandkosten ab.
Wer noch Windows nützt für den ist das schon ein sehr interessantes Angebot!
#Bildbearbeitung #Grafikprogramm
https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Software-Gratis-statt-69-95-Euro-Pearl-verschenkt-PaintShop-Pro-2021-33487055.html

Followed the "80's style animation loop in Eevee" tutorial" for #Blender by #Ducky3D, and then whipped out an old copy of #Jasc #PaintShopPro 7 ¹ from 2001, to make some #80s style buttons for my #streaming about page.

While yellow-green is more my colour, I think the blue version is more appropriate...

Constructive #FeedbackWelcome. :)

¹ I actually have a legit copy of PSP 2020 as well, but version 7 is just so much more intuitive, perhaps because that's the version I spent the most time in. Maybe I should hunt down a boxed copy just for #nostalgia sakes...

#80s #vaporwave #synthwave #FiXatoCreative #mastoArt