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1. 

   dancingwaters
   Member

   I had PSP7 on my last computer but now I got a lap top and can't find the disks to install it. I am needing something that would work kinda like that.. If anyone has any suggestions I would most appreciate it.

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   ldahl
   Member

   Photo Brush and Real Draw Pro:
   http://www.mediachance.com/pbrush/index.html
   Photo Brush is about $45. USD and is very much like
   PSP was in usage. Demo those two and see what you
   think.
   Or buy Corel 8 on ebay... the cost will be reasonable
   and it will have more functions than PSP.
   Still a powerhouse package after all these years at
   a reasonable price.

   Just a couple of suggestions:)

   Oh and Freeware Fan posted a couple of lists of useful sites...This was one of them:
   http://www.oldversion.com/
   They list old versions of PSP for d/l, I'm on dial up this week so I don't know if these are full versions or just demo's or what. Check them out and see.

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   FreewareFan
   Member

   If you're looking for a freeware replacement for PSP, here is a list of possible candidates:
   3D Box Shot Maker - http://www.bosseye.com/boxshot/index.htm
   ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
   Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
   Beneton Movie GIF - http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php
   ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic/
   Deep Paint - http://www.download.com/Deep-Paint/3000-21...tml?tag=lst-2-7
   Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net/
   Faststone Photo Resizer - http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm
   IcoFX - http://icofx.xhost.ro/
   Imagicon - http://www.download3000.com/download_9302.html
   iIco - http://www.mintrasystems.com/world/product...duct.php?p=iico
   Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org/
   JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops/
   Movie to Animated GIF Converter - http://www.evanolds.com/movtogif.html
   Paint .NET - http://www.getpaint.net
   Pixia - http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
   Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
   Pixrev - http://pylab.altervista.org/pixrev.html
   PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com/
   PhotoMerge - http://www.kiwiczech.net
   Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3
   Synfig - http://www.synfig.com/overview/
   The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org/
   Tuxpaint - http://www.tuxpaint.org
   Watermark Creation - http://www.leolasoft-herter.de/Download.html
   Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax/
   Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
   WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

   As a personal recommendation, being a past PhotoShop user, I have to go with GimpShop 2.2, available at http://gimpshopdotnet.blogspot.com/ . After trying many very good freeware photo/paint programs, I have adopted GimpShop as my favorite.

   However, your tastes are different from mine, of course, and so you now have a large list to choose from. Enjoy the journey! :-)

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   dancingwaters
   Member

   Thank you very much will check into those.. I really appreciate it.

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   FreewareFan
   Member

   Por Nada :-)

   Posted 16 years ago #
6. 

   ldahl
   Member

   For a free editor that is very close to PSP you might also want to try:
   VCW VicMan's Photo Editor
   http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/photo_f.htm

   They ask for your email address to send you to the page where you can d/l
   the software for free(they give away all their software for free now)
   I have had very good luck with the software from this site.

   FF... thanks for the great list, I'm going to try out gimpshop2.2! :)
   Your lists are the best!

   Posted 16 years ago #
7. 

   Crash
   Member

   Here's a site where you don't need to install anything. It's like Photoshop but on you browser.

   Link: http://www.splashup.com

   Enjoy :)

   Posted 16 years ago #
8. 

   Whiterabbit-uk
   Games Guru

   Hey Crash, I checked it out and am impressed with splashup so far. It' now in my favorites imaging folder. I sometimes use Photoshops (v8), but haven't bothered reinstalling it on my main computers; after using one of the image editing programs given away here (Zoner photo Studio 9) which has basically everything I need at the moment as I'm not touching up those old slides that were damaged due to damp (The In-laws stupidly stored all their valuable family slides in the loft and they all got damaged some badly; not only through the damp, but a mite infestation caused by birds nesting in the loft area.), or creating group photographs out of lots of single images. It's amazing what some of these packages can do. At the moment I only do resizing and color management. :)

   Thank you for the link and also to Freeware fan for his usual indepth collection of links.Rock on

   Posted 16 years ago #
9. 

   BigThunder1
   Member

   @ dancingwaters,

   I personally haven't used GimpShop, but if your used to PS I've read many good reviews about it's familiar feel to PS. Here's a link to the official web-site.

   GimpShop: http://www.gimpshop.com/

   @ FreewareFan Nice list! I'm curious to know if you've personally used all the apps you listed above.

   Regards...

   Posted 16 years ago #
10. 

    FreewareFan
    Member

    @ BigThunder1 I have not personally used all the apps I listed above. I have used a good portion of them, but not all. The one that I ended up as my main program, was as stated, GimpShop. I really do like that one as being a very powerful freeware editor!

    @ Idahl Many thanks for the thumbs-up vote!

    @Whiterabbit-ul You are most welcome, as usual! :-)

    Posted 16 years ago #
11. 

    BigThunder1
    Member

    @ FreewareFan

    Thanks for the response. I haven't either. But I have bkmk'd this page for future reference once I'm back on track and have use of my personal PC again (everything's in storage for now). I look forward to trying some of these I haven't yet. Thanks again for the great list.

    Regards

    Posted 16 years ago #
12. 

    RunesageMagik
    Member

    Freewarefan's list still outshines the competition, but JohnnyAppleseed's found a free piece of image editing software some might enjoy. It's called Phantasmagoria. No, not the software game, nor the poem by Lewis Carroll. It's billed as

    "a fun, light-weight image editing application. The main focus is to apply effects to images, along with the basic editing that might be required after a sub-par shoot. In other words, what most of us actually need."

    Hey, they said it, not me. Here are the key points:

    1. 100 % free for personal, non-commercial use!
    2. Runs on any Java-enabled platform (including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux)
    3. Supports a wide range of image formats
    4. Contains dozens of cool effects
    5. Lets you easily edit and improve your images
    6. Create graphics, including textures and highy stylized text
    7. Export directly to Flickr, with support for tagging, descriptions, privacy level, etc.
    8. Get automatic Twitter updates after doing something with your images
    9. Broadcast new uploaded images on Flickr with Twitter, including link
    10. Try before installing; install-free version available!

    Posted 16 years ago #
13. 

    Anonymous
    Unregistered

    RuneSageMagik
    it's good to see you again here, I missed you :)
    This graphics program was not in my collection, now I have a very nice and useful tool on my still very empty disk.
    I haven't tested all it's options yet, have mostly played with the text tool and have put some new textures to those hundreds others.
    Thanks for the finding.
    ---------------------
    By the way, the blue flower is a Sinningia (speciosa ?) / (Gesneriaceae). Could not find a picture in the net, there are so many varieties.
    Gray

    Posted 16 years ago #
14. 

    Quantum Dragon
    Member

    A unusual graphic design program that I found is Photoscape !

    Here is the description from the manufacturer : Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

    Features :

    Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow

    Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming

    Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos

    Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame

    Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally

    Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos

    Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo

    Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it

    Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color

    Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode

    Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG.

    I have used the Page and Combine features on baby pictures and I like the result !

    You can find it at : http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

    It's the program of the month for May over at: http://www.freeware-guide.com/month/052008.html

    For those who might be interested, Freeware Guide itself is a good place for free programs (Graphic design and other kinds)

    http://www.freeware-guide.com

    Posted 16 years ago #
15. 

    Quantum Dragon
    Member

    Hi again,

    Found other programs (some very specialized)!

    Photobie : http://www.photobie.com/

    Fotosketcher : http://www.fotosketcher.com/

    FotoTagger : http://www.fototagger.com/

    Wood Workshop : http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/ww_overview.htm

    Ciao

    Posted 16 years ago #
16. 

    RunesageMagik
    Member

    Johnny Appleseed found a couple new graphics design seeds inside his vest pocket. Hope the artistically-inclinded will like 'em:

    IMHO, matching clothes or interior decorating is a mystical blend of art and science best left to women. I couldn't correctly come up with a good shirt, slacks, socks and belt combo if my life depended on it. I'm more color-challenged than the colorblind. Perhaps that's why COLORJACK is fascinating. It instantly displays appealing complimentary or contrasting color combinations in ways I could never imagine as I stare slack-jawed at clothing racks or paint samples.

    Any photo manipulation buffs out there? Despite what parents and nuns tell you, you won't go blind or get hairy palms if you're a Rasterbator. According to the site, "The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size."

    Of course, you'd have to be a millionaire to afford enough HP or Epson ink to do that in color. Might be cool to print out ASCII drawings and lay them on the floor at the base of a stairway for a party... something like the XFiles episode - Conduit.

    Posted 16 years ago #
17. 

    funkymom
    Member

    cool, rune. thank you.
    :D

    Posted 16 years ago #
18. 

    Whiterabbit-uk
    Games Guru

    Hey Runesage' you forgot the album by Curved Air released in the early 70's that also went by the name of Phantasmagoria.

    (One of the many albums that I had stolen when I was at University) :(

    Posted 16 years ago #
19. 

    RunesageMagik
    Member

    GAOTD doesn't give away enough photo and image editing stuff, right? So, when a still picture just isn't good enough, try FotoMorph. It scored a perfect 5 wingdings on Tucows. Might be useful for creating age progression photos of accidentally misplaced elderly relatives for milk carton BOLO posters.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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