Corel Photo Shop X2

Yes definately me "watching ?" a cricket match at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). With a bottle of Kingfisher at one side. Some friends from the Barmy Army took it for a joke.

I'm not a boozer really, but in the heat (around 40) it was tiring.

I too am not much of an expert when usining PS2, but I try and learn, I find the jpeg optimizer the most useful facility for reducing the pixel strenth of my pics for my websites.

Really the jpeg optimiser is only useful if you nhave photos to be put on the internet, it retains the same size, however it reduces the pixels which means that the pics dosent take forever to load on your screen.

What you really need to reduce your large pics for printing or putting on wallpaper is to use the "resize" option, maybe even reduce by 50%.

Where in the USA are you, I am coming to Maryland this October to a wedding. Never been to states, right now I am on a job in India, and its very hot.

Vic

I'll give this a whirl.

Thanks Victor and Lyn.

I have got a Paint Shop Pro 8 and decided to upgrade, I ordered a PSP X2 from our local shop but then I read on the web about people having trouble with it as it shuts the computer down with Vista which I use therefore I cancelled it, has anyone got any suggestions, thanks in advance

I have no idea what is meant by RAW

Peg--- I haven't had any experience with PSP X2, but my much earlier PSP 5 won't load onto Vista at all. I have various versions of Photoshop and took a day to trick CS3 into loading onto my laptop that uses Vista.

RAW---often described as a digital negative, it's the image data that has been recorded by the camera's sensor, but hasn't yet gone through the camera's own processing which normally ends up as a jpeg moments later. So, with a RAW image, you process the image yourself using a RAW converter, for example the one supplied with the camera, or another RAW convertor which has to be updated enough to include the camera you have, for each make and model of camera has a different make up of RAW file, and RAW converter software has to be updated to include newer cameras as they come on the market.

So, instead of a .jpg image suffix, Canon RAW files suffix CR2 and Nikon NEF, for Nikon Electronic Format, for example ,as there's no standardisation for RAW files. then after you've processed the RAW image yourself, you can then save it as a Jpeg, or TIFF. and the RAW file used, like a negative, remains as it was for any future re-use. The Jpeg--Joint Photographic Experts Group--images will be compressed to varying amounts by your camera's processing while the RAW version wouldn't be.