Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> SamuelT. <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> : Are the paint tools in Gimp better than the ones in PSP?
> 
>   Isn't PSP a commercial program that co$t$ lot$ of money?

When it first came out it was definately a shareware only product.
I think you can still get shareware versions but the last version
I got (PSP 4.0  - $49.95 US) was purshased at a retail outlet so
I suppose that qualifies it as a commercial program. Regardless
PSP is many times lower in cost than programs like PhotoShop,
Corel, and Adobe which cost in the hundreds of dollars but still
offers many of the same features. You could call it the top of
the line hobbyist graphics program (hmm... kind of like POV-Ray)
where the programs I mentioned before are considered suitable
for production work.

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Ken wrote:

> Nieminen Juha wrote:
> >
> > SamuelT. <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> > : Are the paint tools in Gimp better than the ones in PSP?
> >
> >   Isn't PSP a commercial program that co$t$ lot$ of money?
>
> When it first came out it was definately a shareware only product.
> I think you can still get shareware versions but the last version
> I got (PSP 4.0  - $49.95 US) was purshased at a retail outlet so
> I suppose that qualifies it as a commercial program. Regardless
> PSP is many times lower in cost than programs like PhotoShop,
> Corel, and Adobe which cost in the hundreds of dollars but still
> offers many of the same features. You could call it the top of
> the line hobbyist graphics program (hmm... kind of like POV-Ray)
> where the programs I mentioned before are considered suitable
> for production work.

I'm not sure, but one comparison might be PSP is to Gimp as Blender is to
POV-Ray.

--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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The Gimp definitely can do plenty, and perhaps more so than PSP.  The various
effect tools alone make it beyond the out-of-the-box PSP 5 or 6 versions (less
Animation Shop, the Agif creator/editor).  But they compare on equal ground
fairly well since there are plug-ins available for either one.  Just isn't easy
to use Gimp (the Win32 port I've used anyway) because of the layout, PSP is
simple enough for anyone.  The latest versions of PSP can do vector graphics
which I don't recall Gimp being able to do.  I got PSP v5 for about $50.
There's my input about it anyhow.

Bob

"Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocitiescom> wrote in message
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| Ken wrote:
|
| > Nieminen Juha wrote:
| > >
| > > SamuelT. <STB### [at] aolcom> wrote:
| > > : Are the paint tools in Gimp better than the ones in PSP?
| > >
| > >   Isn't PSP a commercial program that co$t$ lot$ of money?
| >
| > When it first came out it was definately a shareware only product.
| > I think you can still get shareware versions but the last version
| > I got (PSP 4.0  - $49.95 US) was purshased at a retail outlet so
| > I suppose that qualifies it as a commercial program. Regardless
| > PSP is many times lower in cost than programs like PhotoShop,
| > Corel, and Adobe which cost in the hundreds of dollars but still
| > offers many of the same features. You could call it the top of
| > the line hobbyist graphics program (hmm... kind of like POV-Ray)
| > where the programs I mentioned before are considered suitable
| > for production work.
|
| I'm not sure, but one comparison might be PSP is to Gimp as Blender is to
| POV-Ray.
|
| --
| "My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
| But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
|
|
|

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"Marjorie Graterol" <eme### [at] emediezcom> wrote :
>
> Corel and IrfanView do that.
>

    My version of Irfan didn't do it without asking, but I happily found
that under Options>Properties>Extensions I could easily clear or add
extensions as I liked. In one minute I fixed what Corel messed up...

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