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[chess]

New Haylar.

I tried working with The GIMP again, but it's just so *wrong* after using PSP4 exclusively for ages. Plus it doesn't let you hold two colours at once and use one with the left and one with the right button, which is a very useful thing to be able to do, and I can't work out how it calculates what to take and what to leave when you 'paste into' from another graphic, it seems horribly arbitary, and I do a lot of pasting into for Haylar, as well as needing two colours at once, and I haven't found the 'colour substitution' button either.

If PSP4 had unlimited levels of undo (or even about 5 or so, rather than 1) then it would be really, really good. I was hoping that GIMP would be more customisable (in the area of basic functioning, not filters and layers and other such gizmos only required for doing Real Artwork, which I'm incapable of) but it doesn't look like it's going to be any good, not with a *context menu* eating my right mouse button. Ick to context menus in graphics packages.

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[firinel.livejournal.com]

What GIMP chooses when you select something depends on what tool you're using, and what its current threshold is set to. You may want to play with that more.

COLOUR SUBSTITUTION:
Select > By Colour > choose threshold, select colour using your mouse/arrow
while colour is selected choose the fill option, and dump that colour into the selected colour you want instead.

GIMP has unlimited levels of undo if you set it like that. GIMP only has a few by default so it takes up less room; more undos mean more saving, means more space being used by the programme. (Oh, that's not what you'd asked. bugger.)

Anyway, hope some of that helps.

PSP4

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

I remember that ver. I was the first one i used and i used PSP ever since. A very tallented computer scientist from the stated gave me a cracked copy on 2 floppy disks the first time i met him and expressed an interest in computers. This was also the first time id seen windows95 (the time being early to mid 94) still codenamed chicargo the sound didnt work so well but i was in a place that untill then had only been inside my head ;-)

Re: PSP4

[chess]

I got PSP4 on a PC Format coverdisk, significantly later than that (when it was already an old version). I got PSP6 later, but the 30-day trial thing actually made it time out after about 90 days (whereas the PSP4 '30 day trial' screen has made it to about 300+ days, which is the longest I've had it running between reinstalling Windows or something that resets the counter like that), plus PSP6 had this annoying 'tool options' floating toolbar that you couldn't dock anywhere because it was a square shape with lots of usless whitespace.

Re: PSP4

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

Would you like a copy of data cracker. That will fully simulate a time freese for the softwhere letting you use ot for ever. And easer then me sending you a full cracked ver of psp6 on a cd.

The floating thing is a real pain i know but thats what the jsac people belive is progress.

Re: PSP4

[chess]

Nah; I already have a time freezer thingamy if I wanted to use it, but I prefer the PSP4 interface over the PSP6 one. It's just a pain it doesn't come with a few more levels of undo, but that's why I do all my drawing on the Psion (which has, like, five) and just colour in PSP4.

Re: PSP4

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

Was it a pc review/format gold cd that also had a demo of monster truck madness on? 54 or something?

Re: PSP4

[chess]

Don't think so, but I wouldn't remember, it's been ages since I had the original CD. I think it was just a straight PC Format coverdisk though, because I just had a subscription and didn't buy any of the extra ones.

Re: PSP4

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

Cool cool.
Just out of nostalgic past remembering. I had the first 3 or 4 isues of PC format when they came out. The first 2 or 3 had double dencity 3.5" disks and ran on my amstrad 1512. Then they went high dencity and i could keep up.

The first one came with a highly addictive game called blox and i played it for years and years.