X3 quick questions

prazim · Post by **prazim** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:16 pm

I have installed X3 and notice some differences from X2 that are welcome, but also have a couple of quick questions.

I use the organizer extensively and in X3, it seems, one must choose to view either the editor or the organizer. Normally, I have the organizer, with thumbnails, presenting along the left side with the full editor also in view. Is there a way to do this in X3 that has thus far eluded me?

The photo project creator offers some wonderful possibilities for creating beautiful presentations of one's photos, but I don't see the option for creating animations (using GIF.) Concurrently, I see that Animation Shop has not been updated for Vista, so wonder about the ability to create animated GIFs within PSP.

Finally, I created and saved my workspace, including two opened photos and when I relaunched PSP, the photos didn't load. I also tried then loading the saved workspace which crashed X3.

Many thanks,
Sue

Post by **LeviFiction** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:11 pm

As far as I'm aware the organizer is no longer available in palette form. You can use the organizer to add photos to your media tray palette and use that. So essentially just pick the photos you want ahead of time. You're not the only one to have found this feature disappointing.

I don't see there being any need to update Animation Shop for Vista or Windows 7. Many programs that ran fine on XP still run fine on Vista. Usually updating or optimization is required for programs that use certain Windows functionality or have a specific way of working.

If you can still get a trial version of Animation Shop or if you have the full version lying around I suggest you install it and give it a shot. Otherwise I've never seen anything in PSP to allow for the creation of animated GIFs.

My friend uses The GIMP for that.

prazim · Post by **prazim** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 4:38 pm

My point is that as X3 is including updated tools for creating presentations of images, it seems to follow that one would now be able to also create animations.

GIFmation is now a free download, and APE facilitates animation, so the logical step would seem to be to enable it in X3. It's just a question.

Using the media tray is not really an ideal workaround to the organizer modification. I am using my explorer replacement to substitute for the missing organizer functionality. So, the enhancements to the organizer are welcome, but the new limitation is a disappointment.

Post by **LeviFiction** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:17 pm

I don't think it does necessarily follow that you should now be able to create animations. It follows that many would expect it but not that it should be included.

The number of people creating animated GIFs has always been low, and Corel is really pushing the "Average User" and never saw a need to include animated GIFs. Like you say there are free editors for that anyway.

Besides, Corel has not been known for making the best decisions as far as Paint Shop Pro is concerned. Or a few of their other products either.

df · Post by df » Fri Mar 12, 2010 8:15 pm

I pulled this off of the "users guide"

To add photos to a media tray

Full Editor

1 Select the media tray to which you want to add photos.
2 Click Organizer in the top-right corner to open the Organizer.
3 In the Thumbnails panel of the Organizer, select the photos you want to add to the media tray, right-click and choose Add to Media Tray.
4 Click Full Editor in the top-right corner of the Organizer to open the Full Editor and view the media tray to which you added the photos.

I just tried it and it failed miserably. Problem being that I have that "let us find all your crap on your computer" MediaCataloger.exe turned off since it crashes my computer mercilessly every time you do anything whatsoever on it if it's on and you can't add anything to your media tray if the program didn't find it on it's own. Looks like they took a good idea and made it useless (I personally wouldn't use it anyways, didn't like it in PSP X).

But allegedly you'd be able to use the media tray much like the organizer was like with X through X2.5.

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EDIT:
I just went to preferences and cleared the file exceptions for the organizer and I can now see all of my files and add them to the media tray. (No file formats are on the exceptions list by default so if you haven't added any you should be OK)

Trev Bowden · Post by **Trev Bowden** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:37 pm

I am disappointed with the X3 organiser too. Its to slow for dipping into to grab images. My workaround is to have My pictures Explorer window open and dragging from there in to PSP. Of course you could also have PSP X2 open too to do the same

pdxrjt · Post by **pdxrjt** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:32 am

df not sure about the particular error you got with media tray but for me, it worked AFTER I had created the media tray in the full editor first. I agree, this is a completely bogus (for me) way of working....bring back the old organizer.... PLEAZ!!

df · Post by df » Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:00 am

pdxrjt wrote:df not sure about the particular error you got with media tray but for me, it worked AFTER I had created the media tray in the full editor first. I agree, this is a completely bogus (for me) way of working....bring back the old organizer.... PLEAZ!!

My particular error was self inflicted. I'm one of those guys that just can't leave well enough alone.
Please ignore.