Difference between Virtual Painter and PSP?

Quality Mime Supplies

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Jun 16, 2004, 10:05:07 AM6/16/04

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Having recently received an email promo for Virtual Painter, I took
a look at some of the examples on the web site. I'm a bit confused
as to why I might want to try this program. Some of the examples
look like they are filters from PSP?

Is there actually a difference between the two programs?

Uni

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Jun 16, 2004, 11:19:17 AM6/16/04

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Probably, just the name on the box.

:-)

Uni

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Kris Zaklika

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Jun 16, 2004, 1:27:52 PM6/16/04

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Quality Mime Supplies wrote:
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> Having recently received an email promo for Virtual Painter, I took
> a look at some of the examples on the web site. I'm a bit confused
> as to why I might want to try this program. Some of the examples
> look like they are filters from PSP?

Please look a little more carefully.

> Is there actually a difference between the two programs?

Yes, quite a substantial one. First of all Virtual Painter
is a plug-in and PSP is a fully functional image editor.
Second, Virtual Painter does painterly effects. Very few
PSP filters will directly do painterly effects though
combinations of filters can be used for this purpose if
you are familiar with PSP techniques. Here are some Virtual
Painter examples:
http://www.neocognition.com/temp/vp/vp.html
Here are some painting effects done using combinations of
PSP filters:
http://www.state-of-entropy.com/watercolor.html
http://www.state-of-entropy.com/impressionist.html
http://www.state-of-entropy.com/newtutorials/morepaint.htm
Here are examples of painting effects done with brushwork:
http://www.digitoils.com/
If you compare all these different images you will get more
of a sense of where Virtual Painter fits into the picture.
Then you can decide if it is something that is useful to
you or not.

Uni

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Jun 16, 2004, 2:32:39 PM6/16/04

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As Mr. T. says "sell, sell, sell!"

:-)

Uni
p.s. That BIG software company said they're glad you work where you do.
Makes competing less of a hassle :-)

Rick Savoia

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Jun 16, 2004, 2:44:07 PM6/16/04

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Kris Zaklika <kzak...@jasc.com> wrote in news:40D08318.BFE313E6
@jasc.com:

Kris,

Thank you for the follow up. I will check it out. I'm not
able to check it out of for a few days and wanted to see if it
was worth it before trying to find time to do so. Sounds
like it could be quite useful.

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Gort

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Jun 16, 2004, 3:11:12 PM6/16/04

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Yep, that sure was an arm-twisting sales pitch... " you can decide".

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Kris Zaklika

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Jun 16, 2004, 3:50:36 PM6/16/04

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It all depends on what you want to accomplish, how well
you know the program, and how much time you want to spend
on doing things. That's a personal decision and only you
can tell what is best for you.

Uni

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Jun 16, 2004, 5:36:37 PM6/16/04

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You can always tell when small software companies are desperate for
business. They hang out in usenet 24/7, like Z' Man.

:-)

Uni

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Uni

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Jun 16, 2004, 7:17:30 PM6/16/04

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"Uni" <no.e...@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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You can always tell when a troll, pervert, twerp, moron like me is desperate
for jollies. I hang-out here 24/7 and also at this other site
>>> http://tinyurl.com/38ab7
Sheesh, even my mom calls me a moron!!! Could the whole world be wrong and
I be right???? Not likely... I guess I'm just a pathetic loser.

:-(

Uni

Frogleg

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Jun 23, 2004, 5:45:41 AM6/23/04

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:05:07 GMT, Quality Mime Supplies
<o...@mystartsandgarters.com> wrote:

>Having recently received an email promo for Virtual Painter, I took
>a look at some of the examples on the web site. I'm a bit confused
>as to why I might want to try this program. Some of the examples
>look like they are filters from PSP?

Not filters *from*, but filters *for*. Really nifty. Jasc is selling
VP on eBay and their descriptions have links to lots of examples. My
pre-installed copy of PSP 7.05 came with 2 'sample' filters from VP --
Collage and Pastel. Don't care much for Pastel, but you can make some
amazing pictures with Collage.

Sally Beacham

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Jun 23, 2004, 9:21:55 AM6/23/04

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"Frogleg" <fro...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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The new improved Virtual Painter http://www.vpainter.com/prog_feature_d.asp
is much better than the previous version, despite the cartoon-ish interface.
I'd recommend it.

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Uni

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Jun 23, 2004, 2:57:29 PM6/23/04

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Frogleg wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:05:07 GMT, Quality Mime Supplies
> <o...@mystartsandgarters.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Having recently received an email promo for Virtual Painter, I took
>>a look at some of the examples on the web site. I'm a bit confused
>>as to why I might want to try this program. Some of the examples
>>look like they are filters from PSP?
>
>
> Not filters *from*, but filters *for*. Really nifty. Jasc is selling
> VP on eBay

I guess they had a budget reduction and couldn't afford marketing.

:-)

Uni