This morning's sunrise, with a little help from Arcsoft's PhotoStudio 5.5 - a program that I'm told won't run in Windows 7. Fortunately, neither PhotoStudio nor Windows 7 knows that - just you and me. So it works just fine, and I'm happy. When I first was told that it wouldn't run in Windows 7, and had to be upgraded to version 6.0, I dutifully rushed out and bought that 6.0 version, and tried it. I didn't like it, because they've twiddled and tweaked the features again, and I prefer the older one. So here it is, still doing its thing in Windows 7 - like a lot of older programs that aren't supposed to work with Microsoft's latest creation. Windows 7 is more versatile than we thought.
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Actually, unless you already know this, you can download (free) software from MS that allows Win 7 to run in XP mode (hence the compatibility issue that isn't)..
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tommy - I know about that, but I don't think this was a compatibility issue. I think it got mentioned in dispatches by the system because Arcsoft, instead of making its PhotoStudio 5.5 compatible with Windows 7 officially was trying to get us to upgrade to its version 6.0, which has changes in it that I don't like. So I decided to ignore their warning, and continue using the version 5.5, which they had told Microsoft wouldn't work in Win-7.
ReplyDeleteThey lied, and I've proved it, because the 5.5 version is working perfectly in Windows 7 without any special arrangements for compatibility. I'm using it every day, because it's my photo editor of choice, and it is also the program through which my Canon scanner connects to the system when scanning. If it had a problem, I'd know, for sure.
Hey Ray...
ReplyDeleteI'm using Windows XP and Picasa is my main Photo editor...I jump to an old (5.0) version of Photoshop when I need to refine a photo...Do you use either of these programs plus ArcSoft?
If not...Why not?
@ Uncle Ron -
ReplyDeleteYes, I use Picasa, and have ever since it first was released, away back when. In fact, Gunnar at Google and I swapped a few emails back then talking about one of its early glitches. The first version of it had a problem displaying portrait shaped pictures. If that was a full-length picture of a person standing, for example, it would cut them off at the knees and shoulders, to fit the frame.
The landscape-shaped ones were OK.
So I suggested that they somehow add an invisible border to the sides of those portrait-shaped ones, to trick the program into thinking it was dealing with a landscape-shaped image instead.
I don't know how they eventually resolved that problem, but the next update of it had it fixed OK.
I don't use Photoshop for two reasons: (1.) I don't like Adobe all that much, since they screwed up Flash Player & Shockwave by removing the formerly built-in plug-ins, and (2.) Photoshop is too rich for my blood - there's others out there that are cheaper and do it almost as well. You can get just about the same results by combining a couple or three others, including some freebies that are getting quite good - like for example Paint.NET. There's also
the less-expensive Serif PhotoPlus X3, for those of us who don't want to spend $600.00 to edit our snaps.
Adobe can kiss my grits!
Hey Ray...
ReplyDeleteI just downloaded Paint.Net on my laptop...Quite a nice program...and similar to Photoshop...I like to use the stamp tool and wipe away dust spots and stray hairs...(My grand children all have some acne to get rid of...if salves can't do it...I can...hehe))
I will look at the PhotoPlus X3 later...I have to fix lunch for my girl friend Linda, who is coming over...You probably have seen her on my blog...(corn on the cob, saute'd Salmon fillet and baked potato...)
I do the potato and corn in the mmicrowave...
Mmmmmm Good...