Going back ro maybe 1999 or thereabouts, I was using Paintshop
but it had a different name.
"Jasc" something.
I might still have a CD.
I might still have a CD.
O.
The *reasons* I keep upgrading, besides the endless emails (endless),
The *reasons* I keep upgrading, besides the endless emails (endless),
is so it doesn't crash as much and shows more file formats.
Notes to myself:
Webp?
Webp?
Avif?
Any other pretentious flash-in-pan formats (grrrr)??
Any other pretentious flash-in-pan formats (grrrr)??
and I was never very good. Bad, if you really want to know.
A professional program gives no quarter....Ya know, I already have a freebie somewhere,
A professional program gives no quarter....Ya know, I already have a freebie somewhere,
"Gimp" on my laptop. (damn laptops would die of overheating on someone's lap, nvm)
Per this next video:
The weak and the slow should use "affinity" but photo-savants, use Photoshop and Lightroom.
Free vs $$Hundreds, but we're talking status.
It prolly shouldn't come up in conversation but..... if you spend all your money and time
on photography, you don't care to know about little programs. You're excellent, everyone knows it, so freebies are welcome.
The guy in the video spends lotsa time on programs and making videos.
My original thought was to try to show very old Paintshop photos... but I just remembered all the stuff I gotta do:
Does version "2023" support more formats?
Does version "2023" support more formats?
Why doesn't it upgrade "2022" not clutter my disk with another full version,
Why don't I get serious and use "Gimp" which every pretentious know-it-all will bring up if I ever mention "Paintshop"?
Paintshop seems to want to be easy to use, and I am familiar, (more or less,) with their menu selections.
Paintshop seems to want to be easy to use, and I am familiar, (more or less,) with their menu selections.
Gotta go, questions await.
I promise to edit this soon.
I promise to edit this soon.
Like, OK, could you photograph a sad kid in your local park, magically transfer her to a warzone?
To get a photography job at Reuters and win a pulitzer??
Or do you photograph starkly dark hills in Black and white to emulate Ansel Adams?
Or do you try hard as hell to rejuvenate sepia-toned blurries from 1965??
Or do you try hard as hell to rejuvenate sepia-toned blurries from 1965??
vs
I'd Think that heavily retouched photos skirting the edge of surreal, require ungodly expensive programs, but most people (like me) want to brighten and resize, and on pretentious days, add shadows and photobombs (the picture was downloaded as-is, but, what if the preacher-looking guy way in back was an AI photobomb?)
A retouch thread (not helpful, but intereting)
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| "AVIF" Strike one |
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| Their email department is alive and well, and Bigass Pictures show up from my taskbar. The bigass-from-taskbar-thing is new and shows they're evolving.  |
(omg, the ads, the ads! They never stop (this was a screenshot)
(BTW this is a caption; the actual caption-thing appears to be broken just now)
WebP seems to work OK.
Avif is too upper-crust and must be for Mac's
Avif is too upper-crust and must be for Mac's
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| turd. "PAINT" sees it fine. How about converting, hang on...Yep. |
I originally wanted to write about a model named "Annie Wu" which I downloaded a picture from in 1999.
She's 25 years older now, can I still find her pictures?
And since then she's prolly bought new eyelashes and makeup and doesn't look the same (see my link)
Actually I only really want one or two original photos from back then:
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| This is as far as I ever got on Paintshop |
I'm getting lots closer, I remember this next photo of "wuchenjun"
And this one Which I've never seen, is probably her.
But to stay on track of the original train of thought, I wanted a picture (THE picture), pristine,
That I could use as a reference.
My picture matches the original, and I remember the other photos.
Not much I can do with them in paintshop.
My blog would be lots more depressing if I inserted real-life....
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