Jasc Paintshop Pro 7, the Program that Does it All

Of all the programs that come on a computer, and that you can buy to download on your computer, I have found that only one takes the top billing over all of them. This program is Jasc Paintshop Pro 7. There is no limit to what you can do with it, and the plug-ins that you can download into the program, gives you endless, and I do mean endless possibilities to make anything your little heart desires.

When I purchased my computer 6 years ago, I not only was computer illiterate, but for 2 weeks, I wouldn't even touch the keyboard. Then I finally decided to take the plunge and see just where I could go. I started out only doing e-mail to family, I was terrified to go out on the net, and you might say I was very cautious. I had led a very sheltered life, and thought there was nothing on the Internet but things to get you in hot water.

When I finally ventured out on the Internet, I went to e-card sights and was amazed at what they could do to them to make them so beautiful. There were cards with snow applets, and cards with water moving, and my mind started to spinning on how do they do that?

I started going to more and more sites until I found some that showed how to make applets. Well, that was fine and dandy but html? What the heck kind of language is that? It didn't mean a thing to me, so I was disappointed; they were way out of my league. Try as I may to understand it, it just wasn't happening.

In one of my ventures, on the Internet, I came across site advertising Jasc Paintshop Pro 7. I knew if I was ever going to have any fun with my computer, I needed a program, and even though this looked strange to me, I went for it. Paid the price. Jumped on it, not caring that it cost almost 100.00. I had cast my fate to the wind on something I knew absolutely nothing about. There were books that came with it, one a big thick book, which to this day I still don't understand it.

In the meantime I was still looking all over the net for a place that would tell me in some simple terms how to do html. I found lots of sites but none that would help me, as far as learning what it was. I wanted to do a snow applet so bad I could taste it, so I started just studying what it looked like.

Now, I never went to college, I spent a lot of years with little children, so my learning capacity was low, at this time, but I was determined. I found I could copy and paste an html for an applet and add it to the picture that I wanted to use, and as long as I had a class.file for either a snow applet or water, either one, I could do it. I still didn't understand html.

I let the html go for a while and started just playing with my Paintshop pro program. I found I could take a picture and copy and paste it a few times, and put a bunch of white dabs with paint on each one, in different places on each picture. For anyone not familiar with Jasc paintshop pro, it has an Animated shop that goes with it. You can animate all the pictures that you have, save them, then bring them up in Animation shop and whalla, a picture that snows little white paint dabs. Ok, but it's a start. That satisfied me for a little while but I wanted what looked like the real thing.

I thought they were good enough to make a Website and have Christmas as its theme. That seemed to make me happy for a little while but still wasn't what I wanted. I tried getting my husband interested, hoping maybe he would figure out the html and I could just pick his brain and learn it. He wasn't interested. I tried to get him to make a Website, he wasn't interested, and he thought it would be too difficult.

I kept going back to the html and sites that had working snow applets, I still couldn't get it. Finally after 2 years of playing with it, one day it just hit me like a ton of bricks. I was making too much of it. It wasn't so tough after all.

When I finally figured out how to do it, I started looking for class.files needed to make snow the way I wanted to see it. I tried Anfy, but I didn't like the way it looked, wasn't real looking enough, besides they did the entire html for you, which is fine if you don't want to learn it and just want an instant applet.

I went with a Dorian Grey class.file it was as good as I figured it could get. I started making applets and really going to town with them. In the mean time, my husband looking over my shoulder is slowly learning it too.

Once he learned to do the html, there was no stopping him. He has perfected the art of making applets, be them snow or water applets. He is far better than I, and I might add, did venture into making a Website. He has taken his Jasc Paintshop Pro knowledge to a further degree than I have any interest to. His site can be viewed at: http://kackiesguy0.tripod.com.

Everything we learned with Jasc, we taught ourselves. Anyone interested in getting into making beautiful things, only need to snoop and try and don't be afraid of the program, like I said before, it is never ending of things to do, with all the plug-ins that you can download to it. Jasc has everything you would ever need in a program. It's truly wonderful.

One more thing that has given our applets extra beauty is a new class.file to use with them. http://janim.com has taken applet making to a new and wonderful degree. With Jasc and Janim together, you have everything at your fingertips to take Internet art to the limits. The only cost to you is what you spend for Jasc, and when the applets come alive, and you see the beauty you have created it well pays for itself.

As for me, I enjoy writing now, but still do my applets and have my site with the newest things of my interest. I have gone about as far as I am interested in going with applets, but who knows, something new can strike my fancy anytime.
You can view my site at http://kackie00.tripod.com/kackieschristmascorner.