Damn I've been so tempted by this.

Damn I've been so tempted by this. My first graphics editor was Paintshop Pro 7, and I later bought X3 and used it to make comics, until the year after when I bought Adobe CS 5, which included Photoshop and Illustrator.

At that time both of those apps were terminals at my university and it made sense to use programs that I could also use at my uni. Paintshop Pro had many features in common with Photoshop and could load and save in that format. It also had one or two advantages. The interface was ultra configurable. You could modify all the menus and tool bars, create macros in Python, and set up workspaces to order. It had a version of art brushes so you couple paint if you wanted, and nozzle to spray image with. Also gradients were in vector format and could be modified dynamically, and it supported vector text. and was very easy to make and edit vector lines and simple shapes But the system of vector graphics was incomplete (X9 has included shapes and vector text filling up shapes, see http://help.corel.com/paintshop-pro/v19/main/en/user-guide/paintshop-pro-x9.pdf), but it still doesn't have a CMYK colour mode. Rather, you can export to a TIFF in that mode for printing.

So I was tempted, but I have Photoshop and Illustrator. I still have a number of files that are still in PSP format, but the discount price translates to $A 80, and if it's something I might only use sometimes, why not use X3 instead?


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