Corel Photopaint

Room for this:

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/pages/photo-paint/

in anyone's life?!

I remember the Corel Suite from the 90s on Windows - quite capable IIRC.

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Cheers, Rob

On Mar 16, 2019, RichA wrote
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On Saturday, 16 March 2019 06:58:41 UTC-4, RJH wrote:
Room for this:

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/pages/photo-paint/

in anyone's life?!

I remember the Corel Suite from the 90s on Windows - quite capable IIRC.

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Cheers, Rob

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key image
functions than Photo Shop.

Exactly what “key image functions� are you talking about?

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Regards,
Savageduck

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 07:47:30 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On Saturday, 16 March 2019 06:58:41 UTC-4, RJH wrote:
Room for this:

https://www.coreldraw.com/en/pages/photo-paint/

in anyone's life?!

I remember the Corel Suite from the 90s on Windows - quite capable IIRC.

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Cheers, Rob

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

I would show examples but Dropbox seems to balk at my A3 JPGs.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

however, it's not ideal, since photoshop was never intended to be a
page layout app.

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:37:58 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

As far as I know, you can't drag and drop them. You have to open them
and then copy them. Only once you have done that can you paste them in
the page.

however, it's not ideal, since photoshop was never intended to be a
page layout app.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:12:28 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:37:58 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

As far as I know, you can't drag and drop them. You have to open them
and then copy them. Only once you have done that can you paste them in
the page.


I have an old version of CorelDraw, and that's the only thing I use if
for. I haven't tried drag and drop, but bring in .jpgs using
"Import". The imported .jpg can be resized and placed. If an
over-lapping style for several photos is used, each can be placed
partially over or partially under another image. It's easy to make a
collage of several images. Text can be added.

The same thing can be done in PS, but it's much easier in CorelDraw.

Inkscape (free) is also a vector program that works about the same,
but I haven't worked with it. I needed an .svg file once, so I
downloaded it.



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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

As far as I know, you can't drag and drop them. You have to open them
and then copy them. Only once you have done that can you paste them in
the page.

false. drag/drop works perfectly fine.

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:25:06 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

As far as I know, you can't drag and drop them. You have to open them
and then copy them. Only once you have done that can you paste them in
the page.

false. drag/drop works perfectly fine.

You are right. The first time I tried it, it didn't work and I haven't
tried it since. Nevertheless, while I can drag an image around with
the cursor, and resize it from its initial dimensions, once I have
dropped it (clicked tick) I still cannot resize the image with the the
cursor. It's now nearly as good as Paintshop Pro but it hasn't quite
got there yet.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:08:12 -0400, Tony Cooper
wrote:

On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:12:28 +1300, Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:37:58 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

As far as I know, you can't drag and drop them. You have to open them
and then copy them. Only once you have done that can you paste them in
the page.


I have an old version of CorelDraw, and that's the only thing I use if
for. I haven't tried drag and drop, but bring in .jpgs using
"Import". The imported .jpg can be resized and placed. If an
over-lapping style for several photos is used, each can be placed
partially over or partially under another image. It's easy to make a
collage of several images. Text can be added.

Agreed - its quick and easy. I tried to post the following before but
Dropbox wouldn't show it. Maybe the A3 size gave it indigestion?
Nevertheless you might like to download it and look at it. Its an
album cover collage made from several different maps shots (not all
to quite the same scale on the image) with thumbnails showing where
various photographs in the album were taken.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4dytwggjin...Cover.jpg?dl=0

The same thing can be done in PS, but it's much easier in CorelDraw.

Constructing the album cover would still be much more
clumsy/tedious/troublesome in Photoshop. Getting the scales of the map
sections to match would be particularly difficult.

Inkscape (free) is also a vector program that works about the same,
but I haven't worked with it. I needed an .svg file once, so I
downloaded it.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Paint Shop Pro was a good image program. More straightforward with key
image functions than Photo Shop.

One I remember was when filling a page with photographs of various
sizes all you had to do was open a blank page and drag and drop image
files on the page. They would open on the page and could be variously
sized and arranged to suit. I did whole albums that way. Very quick
You still can't do that in PS.

that can be done in photoshop, with each photo in a different layer.

As far as I know, you can't drag and drop them. You have to open them
and then copy them. Only once you have done that can you paste them in
the page.

false. drag/drop works perfectly fine.

You are right. The first time I tried it, it didn't work and I haven't
tried it since.

then you did something wrong, and as usual, blamed the tools rather
than anything you did.

Nevertheless, while I can drag an image around with
the cursor, and resize it from its initial dimensions, once I have
dropped it (clicked tick) I still cannot resize the image with the the
cursor.

then you're doing something wrong.

It's now nearly as good as Paintshop Pro but it hasn't quite
got there yet.

photoshop was never intended to be a page layout app, nor are other
image editors.

try indesign, pages or many other options, which *were* designed for
page layout.

pick the best tool for the job.