I was making some new TB seals, and there were one or two effects that I just couldn't figure out how to get with PSP, so I installed my copy of PhotoShop to see if it could do what I wanted. It could.

I've been tinkering with it for the last few days when I had the time, and it seems to have everything that the other program I used had and much much more....

I should have switched to using it last year when I got it from Wildcat (the better half), but mostly ignored it because the interface wasn't what I was used to, and I didn't like it. Considering the things that I found out that can be done with it from the last couple of days of tinkering, I'm going to learn to like it

Bye Bye PSP!

The more I play with Photoshop, the more I like it. I'm starting to get some great images (and I can't thank you enough for telling me about tinkering with the .gif settings- I think that made a huge difference for me).

The interface can be a little cryptic, but with the right reference material (I highly recommend the "for dumbasses like you" books) things have really opened up.

Why don't you do a 'How to' guide for Paint shop. Its not strictly Mech but we use the heck out of graphic programs around here.

I for one could use it.

In one part you could focus on the problems faced by PSP users trying there hand at PS.
The interface is just SO different from PSP that I only use it when I cannot get the effect I want from PSP. It's Unintuitive and can be downright Cryptic at times.

I have Photoshop 6 and the new PSP8

PSP8 has made a giant leap to doing what photoshop can do. But still kinda hard to compare with a product 5x more expensive

I have PSP7 and PS7. Most everything that can be done in PSP can be done in PS. Maybe not as easy, but it'll probably look quite a bit better. The only problems I had with PS7, was when I was starting out and learning the key commands, and how to use some of the effects.

The layout is more confusing in the beginning, but once you get used to it, you'll probably like it a great deal better. The layers pallete for example is much better than the PSP one.

Also, any plug-in filters that can be used with PSP, can be used with PS. I have Eyecandy 400, for example, installed on both programs.

The only a few things I wish Photoshopshop had. The tubes. I really liked to mess around with the tubes in Paintshop Pro. I also liked how you had fully editable text, that you could see, before it was put onto the image. You can do the same with PS, but in a roundabout way, that is quite a bit harder.

Anyway, if you need tutorials for Photoshop (great way to learn, that's how I did it), check out this link. There's quite a few websites listed here that have some good tutorials, and then there are a few dead links...

Cleeko-cleeko

Yeh I have PSP7 as well PSP8 improvements were in the pallet areas (now just as confusing as PS , materials, new tools and scripts. The interface looks like PS now as well this was a major rewrite not a patch that PSP7 was of PSP6

Please correct me if I am wrong but PSP still does something better then PS is printing multiple images and the handy collage feature (I make many callenders)

Take a gander

Hmmm....I would guess it's easier to do that on PSP8 than doing it PS7....PS7 makes you do it a bit more complicated, but it works nonetheless