ehume wrote:As a dedicated user of PSP7 since it first came out, I think you do not have to go very far. At first, I used PSP7 to spruce up my output from Inkscape. Then I used the on-screen formatting in the Print function. But since PSPx8 I haven't even needed that, and my PSP7 use has fallen to very little -- I only use it when I want something to load lightning-fast; no other need. Now with the (for me) newly-discovered customizations I may confine all of my work to PSP 2018.
PSP can do virtually anything that the average graphic program user needs that can be done in Photoshop, and most of the stuff most semi-professional users need also (although decent color management seems beyond their abilities, unfortunately.) Besides its more than competitive pricing, I have always believed that its greatest feature is the almost unlimited customizations that users can do with the interface - re-arranging menus and/or adding items to them, the same with toolbars, adding your own custom toolbars or menus, and binding scripts that can be added to any of those menus and/or toolbars.
Corel's problem - another marketing failure IMHO - is that they don't promote the customization feature nearly as much as they should. It should be promoted more aggressively and in more detail on their site, AND they should dedicate a lot more space in the Help files to DETAILED explanations of how to do the various customizations and the advantages of doing those customizations. Videos in their Discovery Center would convince people how easy it is to get the version of PSP that you want to use and still get the latest tools that you want to use from the latest version.
I not only have various menus (context and dropdown) customized - which I carry over into new versions - but have at least a dozen or more bound scripts added to both menus and toolbars. They are scripts that automate certain processes into one or two click solutions rather than having to drill down through menus or manually select different tools to do each step of the process, as well as scripts that open various standalone programs as plugins within PSP.
People should really be taking advantage of the customization options within PSP. There's no reason for Corel to be adding, for example, some requested item to a menu or toolbar when the item it is already available to be put there by the user with the use of PSP's customization. I'd rather that Corel spend their time on actual new stuff, rather than re-arranging menus or toolbars that users can do themselves. After all, customization is one of PSP's features which, I presume, may have been one feature that convinced some people to try it. So why not use it, eh?
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Oh, wow. I had no idea you could do that. I can finally move off X3! 
