This program any good? I only see people mentioning up to version 7.

I have Adobe Photoshop (latest version and find it a hair pulling experience) and would rather find a simpler program for creating repaints.

Thanks hagar. It isn't a very expensive program, and figure if I don't like it for repaints, I can use it for something else anyway, so methinks its going to be purchased soon!

And Felix, care to leave a comment or your opinion as well?

Felix, I have been reading that there are numerous bugs in version 8. Would you say that this is an accurate statement? It seems most prefer PSP 7 with the exception that its a slower program compared to 8.

I am just looking for the best in the PSP line

HiSavas,
I have had all of the last 4 editions of PSP and i have ended up selling my version of PSP8.
i find 7 a lot more user friendly with very minimal disadvantages. i e, hardly any.

go PSP7
of course you should test both first.

For flightsimming purposes, PSP8 is not that big an "improvement" over PSP7.

One really useful tool that PSP8 has is the background eraser.  I use this in some of my repaints, when I need to take a badge (or similar) from an external source, I can take out the background in full and merge in as a new layer.

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Why not do it all in PSP & done with? It can do anything M$ Paint can do so much better & easier. Saves all that messing about. I never understood why you need to use separate programs for all this stuff.

Just for the record, I ordered version 7 instead of 8, so hopefully I should have it in a few days, and maybe, JUST maybe I will have some time soon to tinker with it

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Hey SaVas,
Sorry for the late reply but they don't let me out in public much anymore.

After reading the comments from the other PSP users, I'd agree that 7 is the best version to start with.

However, I've really grown to love one feature in 8 (8.1 actually, because like the others said, 8 was buggy)...when you get comfortable with layers and start to build them at an alarming rate, you'll understand why the new feature in 8 called Group Layers is so great.

Without getting into a ton of boring detail about the many things I use it for, let's just say that I wouldn't paint half as fast as I do now without it.

Of course, I've been doing this for over a year now, and painting with a freeware group, so I tend to do this alot more than others.

Here is a few 737s I'm planning for the new Kittyhawk 737 series coming in the future.



There are 737-300's, 400s and 500s all mixed in there, and they were all painted with PSP8.1. (sorry for the poor resolution of the picture...heavy jpeg compression did her in)

I've painted well over 100 planes, and people tell me the quality is pretty good for the quantity I produce, so I have to say that PSP, dispite what some Photoshop purists will lead you to believe, can handle painting planes for flightsim just fine. 

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That's fantastic news Felix!  I know one of my biggest pet peves with 8 is that it takes so long to load compared to 7.  And I have a gig of mem!
I still use 7 a lot too, to do basic graphics editing that either version can do...I learned on 7 and I'm pretty sure it will always be on my machine. 

A lot of crashes with 8 that I've noticed have all been when I'm manipulating vector layers.  One thing I can tell everyone to avoid doing is moving individual vector sub-layers around in the stack without first saving.    I can't tell you how much work I lost before I made it a habit to save the file before playing with a vector layer.

Going to go grab 9 now!