I don’t go big on buying things these days, but I took the opportunity over Black Friday to get an up-to-date copy of a graphics package called Paintshop Pro (for Windows). Also took the opportunity to get some video creation software published by the same company. I use Paintshop, particularly, on this blog.
Anyway, these programs always contain more features than I ever use so I was playing with it today. This is a photo I took last weekend, but with their “watercolour” filter applied.
Mister Bump 
Now that is truly interesting! I would love to see what it can really do, but then I do not even know the total
scope of my I phone. lol
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I suspect there’s a lot like that now. There’s a limit though because the more features, the more complicated. Paintshop Pro used to be the “simple” Photoshop, but now I need to look on YouTube to see how to do things.
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That house in the background against that azurish sky quite nice
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Yeah it was fun to play around.
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very cool 🙂
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Wow that looks really nice! I was playing about with canva today, and it was great for me because it seems so intuitive unlike photoshop. Obviously for different types of project, but it’s good for social media posts!
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Canva is a lot more expensive than the traditional packages. I’d sooner pay less and learn how to do things.
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I was just playing with the free package. Photoshop is amazing, but it’s super expensive and you have to do the courses before you start using it.
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It’s super complex.
I bought a licence a few years ago, got an educational license in daughter’s name. It was their Creative Suite, so had four or five packages. I was a user of Dreamweaver (to create web sites) back in the day, too.
KK uses the paid version of Canva to create images for Songshine but the ones I need to manipulate, I reverse engineer in Paintshop. So, I’m independent of both KK and Canva. And nobody complained yet.
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Well done!
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Sounds fun.
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I did not know you did videos? cool! How much is the video editing software? xo
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I’ve really only scratched the surface with that one, but it feels like a proper editing studio, able to mix loads of channels etc. It was GBP 20, which was a reduced price for Black Friday. It’s called Corel Videostudio.
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Wow you’ve got a really good deal on that 😗☮️
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Yeah, I kinda had it in mind to upgrade but waited for the price to come right down. I mean, it’s something that I’ll hardly use so I wasn’t going to pay through the nose. But I think it is normally over a hundred, and it’s quite powerful.
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Nice!
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Yes I like it too. I might publish some more processed this way
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Cool.
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I use an app for my iPhone called Prisma that allows me to create “artistic” versions of photos. It’s very simple to use.
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Yes, I see there are different apps about which will do this. My phone even comes with some effects. Paintshop basically does everything, provided you can work out how to do it. It’s very powerful.
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That looks really good. I just don’t have the patience to fiddle with software. 🙂
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No, I know what you mean, I’m normally the same, straight in and straight out. I just had some free time yesterday and… it seems a shame to buy all this whizzy software and not have a clue what it’s capabilities are.
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Well, you did great
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thx
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