RM>> Not sure of his PsP version but it won't be the newest or real old..

TR>Honestly, I was pretty happy from v7 on, v6 crashed on me a lot, v8-9
  >had some interface changes, some I liked, others I didn't, it continuously
  >gets (imho) more polished, and surpassed Photoshop imho a long while ago.

That reminded me..  He sent me a DVD with backups for most
of his software in case of loss and Paintshop Pro was on that.
It is version 7..

TR>If Corel (now that they bought out Jasc) make a *nix version of it, I may
  >very well switch my main OS... will run MS-VS under vmware, but that will
  >be the app that turns the tide for me... though I've been eying the new
  >MacBook Pro's ...

What changes would (did) Jasc bring about ?  It's been quite a
while since I tried Corel Draw. I did a few years back but for
most of what I do it's too complex to fight with.. probably the
same with PsP although I haven't used it since version 3.

I don't do that much fancy stuff. For whole image manipulation or
simple cropping I can do almost everything I need with Irfan View.
It has lots of special effects and image adjusting options built in.
To actually modify small parts of images I use the final release of
NeoPaint for DOS, of all things..  For the most part those two small
programs can do everything I need to do with images..

Must be hold-overs from my small hard disk years.. I don't run
software just because it's available to me. Bigger isn't
necessarily better.
I use MS Works 4 even though I have 3 versions of MS Office
(97, 2000, XP) sitting here. These days I have a 160 gig
Seagate hard drive but after 15 months it's still 90% empty..

Speaking of..  I hear Seagate just bought Maxtor, who not so
long ago bought Quantum.. Pretty soon there won't be any
choices left. It surprised me a bit that Seagate is still as
big as it is. You don't hear the name nearly as often as you
do Maxtor or Western Digital yet the $1.9 Billion they bought
Maxtor for is less than 1/4 of Seagates annual earnings.

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