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Subject:RE: Other uses for Paint Shop Pro From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:18:35 -0500
I use Paint Shop Pro 9 at work and PSP 5 at home. PSP 5 has all the
features I need for tech writing, and opens *much* faster (1 GB RAM on
both machines, similar processors, other apps, etc.).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stevefjong
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:13 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Other uses for Paint Shop Pro
>
> I've been using Paint Shop Pro since version 4, and I highly
> recommend it. Indeed, it does a significant fraction of what
> Photoshop does for much less money.
>
> In addition to simply capturing screens, you can efficiently
> crop them, reduce their bit depth, and save them to multiple
> formats. (No need to store a 1.5 MB shot of your desktop when
> all you need is a 100 KB screen.) You can also edit the bits
> of a screenshot. (Never send out the name of the Engineering
> server again!) If you have hundreds of images in a
> directory, the browse feature makes it fast and easy to
> figure out which one is which. You can even design masks that
> can give a "torn-paper" edge to partial screenshots.
>
> The Macintosh equivalent is Graphic Converter, which can open
> even more file types.
>
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