Anyone here use Paint Shop Pro version 7?
Ok, technically it's version 7.02.
My hard drive blew up last week, so I had to have the saintly computer fix it guy suck out what he could from it (which was surprisingly everything except my old emails and my address book in Outlook) and put them on the new hard drive. I had to re-run all my programs most of which I don't have discs for (just why the hell is it when you buy a program they don't want to give you a damn disc anymore???). In any case, a million years ago when I got Paint Shop Pro once again I got the files and serial number to use it but no disc in case it disappeared from the computer.
Thankfully, I was able to get the program files to re-install PSP as well as all my other programs, so I did that, but of course had to reconfigure all my preferences. What's driving me batty though is the workspace window pane default color is a sickly gray, but all the years I've been using this program I was somehow able to change it to white the way I like it. Last year when the whole computer blew up, and he got me this one and did the whole extracting all my stuff from the one that went kaput I got the default gray workspace window but somehow figured out how to change it to white the way I like it.
But now I can't find anything either in the help section or on the intertubes to tell me how to do it, and I KNOW it can be done since I've been using the damn thing that way all these years, and I KNOW I figured it out just last year.
So, anyone with a clue how I did this before? I remember that whatever it was was something very simple and I had felt that it should have been obvious.
I swear I'm about to toss a bucket of egg shell white at the monitor just to get my white workspace window back!
Make7
(8,543 posts)According to the version 6 user guide:
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- In the Manage workspace, right-click the background area in the Preview window and choose a color.
- In the Edit workspace, with the Pan tool active, right-click the background area of the Preview window, choose Background Color from the menu, and choose a color.
Not sure if 7 is different, I couldn't seem to get that user guide to open. I'm also not sure if changing it that way (if it works) would be a permanent setting or not.
To summarize, I don't really know the answer.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)I still have a copy of PSP 9.x, the last version made by Jasc before Corel bought them. v7 would be ancient.
Can't say I ever tried to change the workspace colors in the versions that old. However, the current "X6" version you can choose via the menu between light gray and dark gray.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Which is what I used for years. Works for me, even if it's 20 years old.
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I hate upgrading. I get accustomed to where things are, how they look, and what to do with them, and every upgrade changes so much I have to get used to that all over again.
I did a trial version of version 8 and hated it. It was way too different, and way too much like Photoshop which I'm not fond of.
Don't ask how old my WordPerfect is. LOL!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)All the word processing power you need on a floppy disk!
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)It was a Windows display options issue. While I was out walking the dog trying to convince him that he doesn't always have to pee on the INSIDE of the bush I suddenly remembered that last year when I did it that it had something to do with something outside of the program. So now I have my lovely white workspace back again instead of that ugly gray color Windows defaults to.
Now if I can just figure out how to make the Open dialog box to retrieve a file default to List instead of the annoying Thumbnails.