Finally a Success… and Questions!

[Dave G]

After posting about 3 X6 problems and getting no responses, I tried an experiment. I found my old PSP 9 disc and loaded up on a Windows 7 computer and…. It works!!! Not only does it work on Win 7 in general but all the things that are wrong with X6 are corrected: ie: PSP 9 does NOT invert the colors of one pit per pixel tiffs on saves. PSP 9's chroma subsampling options do the right things in jpeg files (ie less subsampling produces a bigger file with more choma resolution just as you'd expect) and PSP 9 will happily output a 4 bit per pixel tiff and read it back in. (PSP X6 can read them but can't create them - and gives no error message - just silently creates an 8 bit per pixel file.)

This was on a different computer so I suppose there is a small chance of display driver involvement but I think it's likely PSP X6 itself.

So… questions

1) Would I be losing anything really important? I know I lose the 64 bit goodness but I'm OK with that. I'm sure the RAW support is better in X6 and I'd be losing 16 bit per channel stuff that could be interesting some day but not right now.

2) In case #1 turns out to be "yes" would PSP 9 and PSP X6 get along on the same machine? Obviously file associations would have to be split or assigned to one or neither but would there be other issues?

3) Is there another more modern release that is significantly more robust than X6? X5 or X7 perhaps? ie: is there any way to be relatively up-to-date and also be relatively correct with only one version installed?

[Kathy_9]

Many users, including myself, have multiple versions of PSP installed and working without issue on the same computer.

[hartpaul]

And use the different versions interchangeably for specific features. I use X2 for most of my grunt work as it gives less problems then some of the later versions, but I don't like its Text features, so If I know I am doing text on a project, I can do most of the work in X2 and either convert to PSP or JPG , save and then bring into X4 or as I found recently I can have 2 or more versions of PSP open and copy directly from one to the other version by dragging a thumbnail down to the other status bar version, wait til it opens and then deposit on the workspace as a new image, or even add as a new layer to another image.
So I can have and use all the features of all the versions even if some have been dropped or changed. (Except for X7 which so far is stuffed on this regard and I have to use Edit > Paste etc)

[Dave G]

Excellent! I've installed PSP 9 on my main system and updated it to 9.011 and all is well. The problems I reported in X6 are all gone in 9. Thanks!