PSP XI announced

I have never liked any of Jasc's or Corel's image management programs. They aren't intuitive, easy to use and they don't work well overall. However, that is just a very small part of PaintShop, did you look at anything else?

Robert

Robert Barnett said:

Photoshop also hogs memory when you have an image open. Remember
that the amount of memory needed for an image is not its file size
it is the size of the file once it is uncompressed. You can have a
200K file on disc but when unloaded and uncompressed in to memory
can be a whole lot bigger. Adding layers, channels, etc. and it
will grow even larger.

Robert

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Well I am pretty up on my software...I opened the same jpeg file from a KM5D in PS CS2...and it used 76mb....thats a big difference...All I did was open it no extra layers nothing..

Dont get me wrong I love PSP, its more user friendly than PS, and I am more an icon rather than keyboard shortcut kinda guy...some parts still outclass PS...noise reduction, lens correction....CA removal...all nicer IMO..

RAW is the weak spot...

I am not anti PSP not at all, I use that the most...just I was expecting a nice tune up...aka make it leaner..now I am not so sure..I will carry on with it for a while...just a little bit of a let down...

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I had a look through the various options, tried the Skin Smoother (can't remember the correct name) very slow in use and not as good as careful use of the existing tools.

As I say, a quick look, searched for the "killer app" and didn't find it.

My money is still on Lightroom when its in its final form, as an RSP holder I get version 1 for free.

In the mean time its back to RSP + either PSP/X and/or PSCS.

Picassa 2 does most of my image cataloguing for me at present, including my RAW files.

Shame really as I much prefer the interface with PSP compared to CS

I don't see the memory difference as that big. It could be that PSP keeps more in memory and PS keeps more on the scratch disc.

As for RAW personally I haven't seen an image editor yet that comes close to the support and power that Adobe gives. I think RAW support is the weak point for 99% of programs out there. That is of course excluding RAW only processing programs.

Shame really, but I guess it is costly to reverse engineer all of the RAW formats.

Robert

That's the problem with those automated tools. More times than not they just don't do well. When the do the do but it is hit and miss.

Lightroom looks promising but it is too slow on Windows for me to say I would or wouldn't buy it. I keep hoping Adobe will release beta 4 so I can get a better idea of where they are going. It will be interesting to see what features they added based on beta tester feedback on the beta forums.

I have high hopes for it. Right now I don't shoot RAW that often because processing 1000+ files is just too much.

Robert

pprior said:

I've been a long time PSP user, but version X has been so buggy and
unstable since corel took over that I'm very likely dropping PSP in
the future. One can only hope that version XI improves....

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I bought PSP X last year and the first version had a few bugs but when I installed the 10.03 update many months ago I have had no problems.

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Henry Richardson
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