Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
I miss PaintShopPro
I have it on my old computer, the virus-infected one. Can’t turn that one on — the monitor swivels 360 degrees, it rubs itself with old floppy disks, and it says unseemly things about my dead grandmother. I don’t know what possessed it! (Sorry, sorry. That’s for my son, who (A) loves puns and (B) claims, correctly, that I’m not funny anymore.)
I’m installing PaintShopPro Photo X2, which is photo massage software I bought a couple of years ago thinking I was buying an update for PaintShopPro. Fat chance. I got the first PSP when it was shareware, and if I want to stick with it I’ll have to pony up the real dough. Still cheaper than Photoshop by a factor of two. Anyway, Photo X2 is all well and good for photos, but sometimes a guy really wants to do some truly narsty photoshopping. Well, okay, here we are, the bad boy is installed . . .
Hmm. Not bad.
Photos below the cut.
I like this photo. So what if we're not smiling.
That’s from a year ago. The old man doesn’t look too bad, eh? And my father still cuts a decent figure, too.
I have no idea why this file is ten times as big as the previous file.
Here’s the folks at Firefly, a tapas place near the Strip. (To my brother: TAPAS, not TOPLESS.)
Full of foo
I don’t care if my eyes are closed. I like the way Karen and Jake look in this one.
D.
Yes, that last one is supposed to read “full of food,” but I like the erroneous version better.
I like ‘full of foo’ too.
PaintShopPro has become quite a powerful proggie. It will do 90% of what Photoshop will do, and I think will run almost all Photoshop plugins.
I’ve been lusting after Photoshop lately, mostly because all the big boys use it and when they publish instructions on how to do a certain thing it doesn’t usually translate directly to PSP.
Nah, I like the idea of being full of foo, it sounds happy, and you all look happy there, which is great to see. I have used PSP for a long time too, and still have it on my laptop – two versions actually, PSP9 and PSPX2. It does have some shiny buttons that work in different ways than the grandly expensive Photoshop…
I was checking it out last night, and I couldn’t find the “smear” or “blend” functions that I had on my old PSP program. There’s a clone brush, though, which is critical for photoshopping IMO. So maybe I’ll use X2 a while longer and see if it does all the things my old PSP used to do.