help.

[brigdh]

I want an image-editing program more complicated than Paint.

Can anyone rec me a good one/show me a site to download something/send me an illegal copy of Photoshop/tell the name of a program I should check out/help in some other way?

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[gamera.livejournal.com]

You can download free trial versions of Photoshop CS (adobe.com) and Paint Shop Pro 9 (jasc.com) from the official sites, but the new version of Photoshop isn't as easily crackable as the old ones. I don't know about how easy it is to crack PSP (I have a Mac and it doesn't come for Mac).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Mmm, but trial version in what way? I once downloaded an image program (I forget if it was Photoshop; it might have been, but then again it might have been something else entirely), and worked for an hour on an image, only to discover that 'trial' meant 'you can't save'.

Which, you know, was pretty frustrating.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Send me your email and we may be able to, er, work something out. Might take a day or two, just so you know.

[gamera.livejournal.com]

Last I checked, Photoshop was of the "full functionality, but only for thirty days" variety. I don't know about Paint Shop Pro.

You can also try BitTorrent and file-sharing servers, although those can be hit and miss (for awhile, I had a Japanese copy of Photoshop 7, heh).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

^^ Ah, livejournal, I knew you'd come through for me. Take you time, I just appreciate the thought.

I'm at brigdh @ yahoo.com (without the spaces).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I had tried Imesh, which is what I use to download music, but every file I could find that was labelled Photoshop was a virus or some other strange type of program I feared to download.

Can you reccommend a good BitTorrent site, by the way. I'd been using Suprnova, but it went down.

[gamera.livejournal.com]

I got my Photoshop (both the Japanese version and the one I'm using now) through LimeWire, but there's also less virus worry with a Mac, admittedly.

I get Lost torrents from http://www.novatina.com/ but I'm not sure how good they are in general.

[eibii.livejournal.com]

Good side: The GIMP ( http://www.gimp.org/ ) is totally free, a reasonably small two downloads even over dialup, and is powerful enough to compare with Photoshop.

Bad side: The reason why it hasn't totally come up and punked Photoshop's overpriced ass is that the interface is confusing and stupid. So when you look for something, it may be under a totally different header, the controls require fudging, and the tutorials will have to save your ass.

Okay side: Hey, it *is* pretty neat once you learn how. Which is not hard, just annoying. ._.;

[eibii.livejournal.com]

Er, yes, tutorials, right, where was I?

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
http://empyrean.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/~nem/gimp/tuts/

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Just as a footnote: as a privileged Mac user, I haven't had to figure out what the deal is with so-called "activation" of software. My impression is that the latest version of Photoshop requires it on Windows (although not on Mac).

But I also have the impression that Windows users who're concerned with privacy issues have come up with various ways to address the privacy concerns raised by activation. I had the sense that this was going to be a serious set of issues over the next few years, because Windows itself was moving in the direction of "activation," and of a rental rather than a sale model for software; but now I've lost track of where all that stands because I never deal with it directly. Meanwhile, though, if it turns out that activation remains a problem, there's always the previous version -- I don't think they were doing this with 7.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I've never heard of this before, but it looks all kinds of useful. ^^

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I am very grateful for this.

It all seems to work fine; I couldn't activate it, of course, but it doesn't look like that'll keep me from using it. At least, I didn't have any problems opening it and playing around with things last night.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Coolness. If it does turn into an issue, let me know -- I think somebody might have sent me 7 at some point, and once again, if that's the case it might as well go to a good home: I'm not getting a PC any time soon.