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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Paintshop and stuff

 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.
O. 
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?
Avif?
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,
"Gimp" on my laptop. (damn laptops would die of overheating on someone's lap, nvm)
This was meant to show some blasts from the past, but I just remembered all the stuff I gotta do:
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.
Gotta go, questions await.
I promise to edit this soon.
"AVIF"
Strike one

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.

WebP seems to work OK.
Avif is too upper-crust and must be for Mac's
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:
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.



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