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Jasc Paint Shop Pro - before Corel picked them up and gave the software a horrible identity crisis.

It had all the right features for graphics editing targeted at the web. Mixing vector layers with raster layers, both fully featured, is still something many modern programs either don't have, or half-ass.

And it was dirt cheap, compared to the competition.

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Fireworks (Adobe/Macromedia) was in this category of mixed vector/raster editors. I'd love to see it return, but a 2019 version would have to be somewhat different to survive.

Krita is making serious moves in this direction.

It'd need to be somewhat different, yes, but... the biggest problem Fireworks faced in its last years at Adobe was basically who it was owned by. And what else they owned. Photoshop is the rare application with language warping household mindshare. It didn't matter that Fireworks was a better screen design tool on several level, Adobe almost constitutionally couldn't ever have really done enough with Fireworks without pitting it against their flagship title.

I feel similar with "Photoimpact" - which corel also bought, but has least made still available and not changed it much.

I still wish the previously free graphics library was attached and that the old GIF animator that was included with some versions previous was still available.

I keep buying it again to avoid hunting for the cdroms and activation codes buried. Also throwing some money at it keeps it from going to the graveyard hopefully.

I still have PSP v7 installed. Using it as an image viewer and photo editor almost daily. I'm also using it to draw in vector mode. It's so fast, so lightweight, and so fully featured.

Same here, as I still haven't found anything with a similar feature set that I can quickly edit images with :(

I've tried Paint.NET and others, but none of them feel as intuitive to me.

+1 for Jasc PSP. I keep a Tiny7 VM around just so that I can run Jasc PaintShopPro when the need arises. Still useful but it doesn't support HEIC or Jpeg2000 :(

Yes!! I loved Jasc Paint Shop Pro too. Until this day I have a PSP7 copy from like 2002 with me. Corel completly ruined it.

i did not expect anybody remember paintshop. it was incredibly easy and productive for me. how many years have passed.

Yeah, still using PSP5 and 9 here

I have 6 installed on Windows 10.

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