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Piratism hurts small low-cost hobbyist software most by dislocating them with free professional juggernaut tools.
While Paint Shop Pro 6 is the most beloved version, PSP 7 and (particularly) 8, took the software in a very interesting direction. I remain convinced that this directly lead to Corel acquiring it with the unstated but definite intention of crippling it. See, 6 and below were fairly traditional raster-based editors. But starting in 7, and with substantial improvements in 8, PSP introduced the concept of raster and vec…
> it was incredibly powerful, especially for the time period we're talking about Fireworks was also doing this around the same time but seems to have been completely been forgotten because of Photoshops dominance.
While Paint Shop Pro 6 is the most beloved version, PSP 7 and (particularly) 8, took the software in a very interesting direction. I remain convinced that this directly lead to Corel acquiring it with the unstated but definite intention of crippling it. See, 6 and below were fairly traditional raster-based editors. But starting in 7, and with substantial improvements in 8, PSP introduced the concept of raster and vec…
Actually, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperPaint_(Macintosh) is where I first saw that (wiki says released 1986, sounds right.)
Funny enough, at first I thought that the article was about that, although the name didn't seem quite right, and obviously the years and outcome were wrong.
I apologize if this an insensitive question, but a Google search wasn't very enlightening. Did Robert Voit die, or was this prompted solely by the author's reminiscence?
Rewarded maybe financially, but it must have been a bittersweet moment considering that PSP probably had already peaked at that point and definitely did not prosper under new ownership.
PSP was one of those programs (along with Winamp) that are the hallmarks of the golden age of user experience for me. They had a lot of functionality but were very lean, a joy to use and reasonably priced. I miss the days when you didn't need a 100 MB (relatively speaking) package just to show a screen.
But for me, the best version ever was 3.0. I was able to draw pretty impressive diagrams at the pixel level, without any problem.
In subsequent versions, they modified the zoom tool, the GUI and the brushes, so it was quite harder to do the same thing.
I apologize if this an insensitive question, but a Google search wasn't very enlightening. Did Robert Voit die, or was this prompted solely by the author's reminiscence?
The Wikipedia page about Jasc [0] does give some information about Robert Voit, which is written in present tense, indicating he is still alive. However, the page has not been updated for a while.
PSP was one of those programs (along with Winamp) that are the hallmarks of the golden age of user experience for me. They had a lot of functionality but were very lean, a joy to use and reasonably priced. I miss the days when you didn't need a 100 MB (relatively speaking) package just to show a screen.
PSP was one of those programs (along with Winamp) that are the hallmarks of the golden age of user experience for me. They had a lot of functionality but were very lean, a joy to use and reasonably priced. I miss the days when you didn't need a 100 MB (relatively speaking) package just to show a screen.
How old were you when you encountered them? Both are important programs but this sounds a little bit like people's recollections of their favourite games.