In article , Mayayana
wrote:

| PSP5 is OK for most of that except that functions
| for things like sharpening are outdated. PSP16
| is up-to-date but is bloated and poorly designed.
| (I can't even choose to not have a black window!
| And it has a silly 3-part interface. One part is a
| file explorer window. One is a quick-fix window.
| One is the normal edit window. All I want is edit,
| but I have to wait while it loads all 3. That kind of
| bad design is evident throughout the program.)
|
| Makes you wonder why you choose to suffer so.

You mean as opposed to paying through the nose
for a monthly subscription and not even being able
to buy the software?

there are plenty of non-subscription apps that do what you claim to
want to do, and far more efficiently and productively.

there is also nothing inherently wrong with subscriptions, which for
many people, is *cheaper* than buying the equivalent apps, if they even
exist.

I guess I just don't like to
support sleazy companies with gobs of cash they
don't deserve.... especially when I don't need to in
order to do what I do. Call me a masochist.

masochist isn't the word that first comes to mind.