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v9 was good, but I still prefer 7, the version just before JASC switched to .NET. v7 is lightning fast, and nearly 20 years later it's still the version I use
by SyneRyder 8y ago
v9 was good, but I still prefer 7, the version just before JASC switched to .NET. v7 is lightning fast, and nearly 20 years later it's still the version I use first for Photoshop plugin development, because of its speed.
From memory, v9 isn't compatible with Windows 10 (the installer won't work properly), so don't feel you're missing anything.
Serif's Affinity Photo is giving PSP real competition, but Affinity is still quite buggy in some ways on Windows. I'd probably recommend Corel PSP 2018 / 2019 over Affinity for the moment. Paint.NET is great too.
- tracker1 8y agoI haven't really looked at anything since XII... I do mostly development, and my image work is mostly relegated to slight color shifting and/or cropping/scaling. I do wish Paint.Net were a better cross platform option... I've used Pinta, but it's been kind of buggy and isn't nearly as well flushed out. It's a shame that so many tried to re-bundle Paint.net in sleazy ways... though the ads on their own site are horrible, and I don't fault the main dev(s). I just would love to see Pinta or anything else become as easy to use. I may try to dig up PSP7 and see if I can find a key for it.