PSP vs PS For Me

First, I am NO expert by any means of either program. I am just a grandmother who enjoys tubes, tagging, digital photography and digital crafts.

I have used PSP (PaintShop Pro X and then X2) since about 2009 or thereabout. Originally using it only to touch up my ancestral photos since I am also a family genealogist. In fact, I had no idea what "Noise" was or why anyone would want it and almost deleted it from my PSP X program.

Most know I joined Animation Lessons in Aug 2010 and there I discovered what one could do with "Noise" and the entire host of goodies in PSP X and with Animation Shop 3.11.

     


I moved up to X2 in 2011 due to corruption of some files and became comfortable with that program in short order.

Several weeks ago I suffered yet another, more serious issue, which is going to cause me to reformat my hard drive in a few weeks as I am waiting for a 1TB external hard drive so I can move files over for preservation.

Due to this more recent issue, I bought Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 from Amazon.com.

        
I bought this version because my cousin (a scrap kit designer) uses this and was able to bring me up to speed quickly

Since I have been using both, I must say there some things I like about both programs and some things I dislike about both programs.  Again, not being an expert with either, this is not an exhaustive comparison, nor is it meant to be.

Over all, I find PSP to be more user friendly and easier to grasp the concept of getting what you want to do to come together on the workspace.  In all fairness, this may just be due to my longer usage of the program and have nothing to do with the programs at all.

I do like the way you can close off layers in PS and save as a .png  or .jpg any single layer. I can't do this in PSP.

Also, there are the great styles one can apply to text that you don't have with PSP, or at least I have not found them.

I do NOT like how I can not create text on a layer in PS and just copy and paste it into Animation Shop as a new animation without it appearing on a white background. I have to save each text layer as a .png and then open it in AS if I want to have the transparent background. 

Most of the same filters work in each program but Corel has a few standard filters (like the bubbles) that I can't duplicate in PS.

Again, all of this could just be due to operator error and NOT program defects.

Both programs are great and even after I reformat my hard drive, I will continue to use both programs.

I would really like to get some feedback because I'll bet many of you have used both programs and can offer even more information than my little spattering here.


G4F


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Fairy Wisdom Forum Set

This cute and simply animated forum set was made using the "Deep Water" tube from Meg Baker (Miss Megs) and is found at PSP Tube Stop.

(I am now using Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and you can get it at Amazon.com by clicking the link. Just $32 but hurry, there are only 4 new and there are 14 previously opened boxes as low as $14.96! )







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Missed Tags

After going through some folders on Photobucket, I realized I missed some tags I had made earlier in the year. The theme is "Think Spring" so maybe you can still use them or save them for next year!

These tags are made with a free tube from Barb Kermis of "Barbs Playground". You can find the tube HERE.










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I Love Summer Forum Set

This cute set is made with "Summer Spell", a collaborative scrapkit by Constanza Ehrenhaus, Katerina Koukiotis and Lisa Cree, artist of PSP TUBE STOP.





I will be posting more sets today so check back and thank you for visiting my little blog!


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Vintage Butterfly Siggy Snag Set

This was my first tag set made using Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0

The program is old but I found a copy on Amazon.com for $13.99 and I was told this was the easiest of the Elements versions to use.

It is somewhat similar to PSP, however there are enough differences to make it confusing. PSP is more "logically" laid out to me.





The animation action was made using Alien Eye Candy Glass effect with three different Refraction settings (15, 22 and 50) and putting the frame with the 22 setting both before and after the frame with the 50 setting, so there are only 4 frames in Animation Shop for this tag.

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Update on the computer issue

I thoroughly researched the "missing gdiplus.dll" problem. I tried all the simple solutions (delete the corrupted fonts, searching the trash for accidentally deleted file, etc) that I found in the various forums and on the web.

I finally found where I should download and extract a gdiplus.dll file to my Windows\System32 folder, which I did. Then go to "Run" and type in "regsvr32 gdiplus.dll" and click "Ok".

Under "normal" circumstances, this would "load" the missing .dll file and all would be wonderful, right? NOT!

I received a new error message stating the file had loaded BUT "the DLLRegisterServer could not find the entry point", the entry point was missing, therefore the gdiplus.dll could not be registered by the system. So the problem is within the Windows XP Pro system and as soon as I find the installation disk that came with the computer, I should be able to do a repair install and hopefully THAT will fix the problem.

Interesting that Adobe products do not seem to need this file to operate since my Adobe products will operate. 

Oh... Internet Explorer will not function neither. I use Firefox and do not seem to have any problems there. 

I am posting this as an FYI to anyone out there who may be having the same computer issue.

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Computer Down

Not exactly the computer but the Corel PSP X2 software is down. 

On the 14th I upgraded my memory and was excited that I would be able to zip on through my creations but as Murphy would have it, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

PSP would not open and after several days of messing with the issue and research help from my cousin Lisa, we have found that the gdiplus.dll entry point is missing. Do not ask me how on earth that happened. 

Corel has assigned a Support Person to help me (Thank you Corel!) and hopefully I will back to making tags soon.

Please stand by....


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Vintage Snags

I love the vintage look and steampunk themes so I have combined these to produce the following snags. The background is a steampunk design from Dover publications with an overlay of a mask and then a marbled filter. The beautiful scraps are by  "DigiZines By Teri" 







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