Oglitsch,
I thank you for sharing your the genorosity of you time and expertise in your reply.
I have been in the IT business for many year, but never, ever had trained as a graphic artists. The most graphical challanges that I have was putting together Powerpoint Presentations with handouts and learned from the graphics and training department in my company a standard look where really less was better.
I am aware while like you, I was a version 3'r my uses of Photoimpact have been rudimentary. My learns skills on the video and audio end are different. Those are more techniocal and not so involved with the layout of items, chosing colors and the power of subtle changes in editing still images.
I use PI mostly for
- *For editing screen captures, especially for IT documentation.
*The Crop tools
*The incredibly natural way that PI can make my wife happy by shaving off about ten pounds.
*The beautify skin option is sensational. So natural in how it can smooth out skin. When my two older boys were 16-18, PI does a sensational job of smoothing out their acne.
*I just learned, from a tutorial, how to remove the "white eye" from flash pictures of my Dog and Cat.
*Merging some images and adding frames
*The text tool a lot. Sometimes selecting banners. I put the name of my favorite blues artist on the PI edited picture on my avatar.
*For fun, using the distortion feature, mostly with my children, to make them look like they just walked off the set of an old science fiction movie.
I do need to learn more, especially to cut down on the time I take searching and experimenting.
The information about V11 I have read in many places. As I have said before, when large changes occur in a front end, it is to be expected that there will be some bugs. I will wait and upgrade when I have a reason to.
I do feel that PI has come a long way as far as stability. There used to be times when it would crash on my in th e middle of editing fairly frequently.
In general, I find that using a great frewar product called Ccleaner and/or rebooting before going into a PI session helps. Regularly degramenting my drives with O & O software also helps. Defragmenting regulary is not an option , but a must if anyone works with editing video.
If anyone is interest, here is th e web site for Ccleaner, I liked it so much, I even donated to the authors after my first use.
Ccleaner home page
oglitsch,
Thanks for making me laugh. I also have used and use other graphics products for special situation. BUT,
the products I use all came to me included in boxes of Canon hardware. No pirating of software for me. I wont even look at any software that does not allow someone to download a full or mostly full demo.
I have a FTP site, that I use to share a lot of files between friends and family. I think it is time for me to have a real web site as well.
I am going to have to look at some of the tutorials about how to use PI, which I assume will give me a graphical front end and create some HTML code that I can add. Currently I just use WS-FTP to upload files and I started to write soem straight HTML or XML code as I start my web site. I wouldn't mind getting the help of PI in web site development.
oglitsch wrote:keenart, I suspect you of having many pirate copies - don't tell us that you bought all the graphic tools you mentioned above!
jolo: Me too, I'm working with graphic tools since almost 20 years now and I also bought all PI versions from 3 up to 11. But I agree with heinz-oz: An update to version 11 is NOT a must. Some nice features have been added, but at the cost of stability (my opinion). I use PI mainly for web graphics and need very often the text tool. Therefore I went back to version 10 because of the ugly bug in the text tool of PI11.
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). I do create my web images with PI though.