Mayayana
| >I still use PSP5 for basic editing. It does what I | >need. I once decided to update to PSP7 but was | >very disappointed with it. They had stuffed it full | >of nonsense bloat. (Simply drawing a rectangle had | >become a complex task, cluttered with choices | >to use stock backgrounds and such.) So I went back | >to PSP5. | > | You should have a look at X6. I think you will find it is a useful and | competent program.

I'm tempted to do just that. I noticed it's not very expensive. And it doesn't seem to require any online contact or "membership" in order to work. But it seems to be very bloated. The system requirements say it needs at least 1 GB of disk space.

There's just no excuse for that level of junk. My entire C drive is a little over 2 GB, and that's with about 25 MB for PSP5, plus all of Visual Studio 6, 125 MB for GIMP 2.8, 300+ MB for Libre Office 4 (which is, itself, a sloppy, overproduced mess, but I need it for docs and creating PDFs), and a few other things, along with Windows XP. The $80+- would be fine for a worthwhile upgrade, but unnecessary slop the size of an operating system -- no.