Tag: Software Review
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Typefaces
Updated February 5, 2014 to correctly display the LaTeX screenshot, minor prose edits, and added discussion of font styles. I do not know if you have a favorite font. I do. I really like Microsoft’s Calibri font because it is very readable on screen and paper and it looks professional. With that in mind, it…
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PaintShop Photo Pro X3
The latest version of Corel Paint Shop Pro is now apparently called PaintShop Photo Pro X3. Perhaps they’ll eventually regret their ridiculous naming. Many things are the same since the previous version. The obvious differences are that the menus have been re-colored to be higher contrast. I find it overdone and a little garish, but…
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Corel Releases New Paint Shop Pro
Despite Corel’s dreadful marketing, it appears today’s quasi-clandestine webinar was to unveil a new version of Paint Shop Pro, now with the awkward name Paint Shop Photo Pro X3. For pity’s sake. However, it appears to have included at least two things I care about: Better speed by multithreading (though there is no indication of…
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Vibrance
Photoshop’s Camera Raw tool, for importing RAW camera images, provides a really delightful little slider called “vibrance”. Paint Shop Pro does not. I read one post suggesting that vibrance was effectively increasing saturation on low-saturated areas. I decided this would be worth trying to emulate in Paint Shop Pro with some layer magic. The results…
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The Color of Software
Philosophy of Use This article is rather long. Please scan ahead to the pictures to see where we are going, then come back and slog through the details. The basic tasks I’ve needed to perform on digital photos since my first digital camera (a Canon G3, may it rest in peace) are: orientation flipping cropping…