I got a big surprise yesterday - my graphics program Paint Shop Pro, no longer works. In messing around on Corel’s site, it looks like they no longer offer or support it. It is not a cloud program- it resides on my hard drive. Nothing I could do would revive it, Task Manager shows a “disabled”.
Looked at free graphics programs, only one I found was GIMP. I have an older version of GIMP, but have never used it- too complicated. However seems to be only game in town- can’t afford photoshop or lightroom.
I’ll update to the latest GIMP and bite the bullet, looking at all the support I can find.
What do I use a graphics program for- decal making, cutting patterns, and many other little jobs.
Ah, it’s very frustrating when that happens! We discovered two years after the fact that support ended for the 3D Earthwork / Quantity Survey software we used at work, so it just stopped dead one day. We were without a viable alternative for a few months and had to get by on trials - not all of which were fit for purpose…
GIMP2 has a steep learning curve conceptually, but if your activities are fairly consistent and routine then you’ll master it pretty quickly. I used to use it for cover art for YouTube videos, which were pretty formulaic.
@missileman2000 Do you have an old version of PaintShop Pro? I was just on their webpage and you can still get it. They said this about supported products:
Problem solved. I already had it on my computer- Libre Open Office. I had never used the Draw ap, It turns out it is a full-featured graphics ap with a great manual
If you like using Inkscape, do your work in there then export the file to your computer as a jpg. Then open it with another program that you can print with.
For a good free quick raster graphics tool, I use Paint.Net. Although more and more I am using Affinity Creative Suite (Photo - Adobe Photoshop equivalent, Designer - Adobe Illustrator equivalent and Publisher - Adobe inDesign equivalent). I say equivalent but I more mean analogue they are very different but do vary similar things as the Adobe programs. The beauty of the Affinity programs is they are a one-time buy rather than a monthly subscription like the Adobe software.
That’s really crappy especially when you have a physical copy. Then again it’s like Microsoft stopping support for the Windows I have. Have no idea of what’s going happen come October.
