monkeyman said:
Yes, Phot Filtre is pretty amazing and if you choose it as your
"External Editor" for XnView or Irfan Viewer it loads so fast it seems
part of the viewer. My copy of Paint Shop Pro 7 is now off of my hard
drive and the CD is in a drawer somewhere - it won't be coming back.
Paintshop Pro is both a picture processing program and a paint program.
To replace it you need two freeware programs, Photofiltre and Pixia.
(But if you use only the picture processing features in PsP you can, of
course, replace it with only Photofiltre.)
Pixia is by far the best lightweight paint program.
It has an interface which needs a little learning, but that is easy to
accomplish with the help of the tutorials which are available on the web.
After looking through them it is easy to use "the interface from Mars" as
somebody called it
It is actually really easy and logical, but the author of the program has
chosen to use the available screen space for as many useful functions as
possible, so there was no space left for explanations.
That is my theory, anyway.
Both Photofiltre and Pixia runs smoothly in computers with limited
resources, and are probably very fast in more modern computers than the old
machine I am using.
