PainShop Pro 9 - Help with Animation Shop?

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Help with Animation Shop?

usmcmom

2007-09-04, 3:16 am

Hi folks, I am new here and hoping someone out there can help me with my
animation shop problem. I recently had to do a Full Recovery and now after
reinstalling AS it will not open a psp file nor a psp image file as to where
it did before I did the Recovery. I have tried everything I can think of
but nothing has worked.

I have WinXP, not that that should matter. I have tried adding the
extensions in AS but it gives me a message that those are already being used
or something similar to that and therefor it will not accept them when I try
to add them to the File Associations.....HELP Please!!

Oh and how do I stop the jbf browse file to stop appearing everytime I open
an image? I keep deleting it when it shows up on my desktop but it keeps
haunting me...lol

Thanks in advance if anyone might know an ans to my psp probs.

Hugs, Stella

Trev

2007-09-04, 6:16 am

"usmcmom" <usmcmomster@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:46dba106$1_1@cnews...
>
> Hi folks, I am new here and hoping someone out there can help me with my
> animation shop problem. I recently had to do a Full Recovery and now
> after reinstalling AS it will not open a psp file nor a psp image file as
> to where it did before I did the Recovery. I have tried everything I can
> think of but nothing has worked.
>
> I have WinXP, not that that should matter. I have tried adding the
> extensions in AS but it gives me a message that those are already being
> used or something similar to that and therefor it will not accept them
> when I try to add them to the File Associations.....HELP Please!!
>
> Oh and how do I stop the jbf browse file to stop appearing everytime I
> open an image? I keep deleting it when it shows up on my desktop but it
> keeps haunting me...lol
>
> Thanks in advance if anyone might know an ans to my psp probs.
>
> Hugs, Stella
Animation shop was not updated so it can only read psp files saved with the
option to save as psp 7 compatible.

When saving not the option button in the save as dialog. Of course this does
not effect copy in PSP and paste in animation shop as new animation or paste
after last frame which I prefer to do.

usmcmom

2007-09-04, 6:17 pm

Hi Trev, thank you but my animation shop won't even read or open just a
plain psp file. Before I did a Recovery it did read a psp AND a pspimage
file. That is why it's so puzzling to me now.
Hugs, Stella

Trev

2007-09-04, 6:17 pm

"usmcmom" <usmcmomster@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:46dc1012$1_1@cnews...
>
> Hi Trev, thank you but my animation shop won't even read or open just a
> plain psp file. Before I did a Recovery it did read a psp AND a pspimage
> file. That is why it's so puzzling to me now.
> Hugs, Stella
No sorry but animation shop can not open pspimage. You can see them in the
browser but try to open them and it will report it as invalid file.

Thats why the compatibility feature is in psp. One thing you have to be
careful of is changing back to pspimage to save with PSP 9 features. In Psp
X they added a psp for animation shop to get over that.

Spandex Rutabaga

2007-09-04, 6:17 pm

usmcmom wrote:
>
> Hi Trev, thank you but my animation shop won't even read or open just a
> plain psp file.

Excuse me, but are you saying that when you start Animation
Shop, do File > Open, select a .psp file saved so as to be
compatible with the PSP 7 version of the PSP format, then the
image doesn't open? If so, what exact error message do you get?
If not, can you please clear up what it is you really mean?

Before I did a Recovery it did read a psp AND a pspimage
> file. That is why it's so puzzling to me now.

The first thing you need to know is that .psp and .PspImage are
just file extensions. They are part of the file name but do not
control everything that is in the file. You can, for instance,
force PSP to use the .psp file extension or type in place of the
...PspImage file type. However, this won't guarantee that Animation
Shop will be able to open the file. To have that happen you need
to make sure to specify that your file be saved in a backwardly
compatible version of the PSP format. Specifically, in PSP 9
do File > Save As and specify "Animation Shop (*.psp)" as the
Save As Type in the Save As dialog. The file can then be opened
in Animation Shop. Alternatively, you can select the "Paint Shop
Pro Image (*.pspimage, *.psp, ...)", edit the file type in the
file name to be psp (not pspimage), press the Options button,
choose Save As: "PSP 7 compatible file", press OK and then Save.
Obviously the first method is quicker and easier.

> Hugs, Stella

Please don't hug vegetables. It makes them uncomfortable and
puts unsightly finger marks on their pristine skin.

Wiglaf

2007-09-04, 10:16 pm

"usmcmom" <usmcmomster@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:46dba106$1_1@cnews...
> Oh and how do I stop the jbf browse file to stop appearing everytime I
> open an image? I keep deleting it when it shows up on my desktop but it
> keeps haunting me...lol

The steps are the same for both PSP 9 and Animation Shop 3.11:
1. File > Preferences > General Program Preferences
2. Browser tab
3. Uncheck "Save Browser files to disk"

Be sure to do it in each program.

Wiglaf

usmcmom

2007-09-04, 10:16 pm

underprocessable

JoeB

2007-09-04, 10:16 pm

"usmcmom" <usmcmomster@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in news:46dca5e2_2@cnews:

>
> Ok...I finally got it to open a .psp file but still no luck on a
> .pspimage. I even went and resaved this pspimage to be compatible with
> version 5. I use psp 9, I think I forgot to mention that. Attatched
> is the error message I get with a pspimage file.
> Hugs, Stella

I believe others told you to save the image as a .psp file, not a .pspimage
file. Also, I believe they told you to save it as PSP7 compatible, not
PSP5 compatible. And I think Spandex said to save as Animation Shop
compatible. Did you do any/all of these things?

Regards,

JoeB

JoeB

2007-09-04, 10:16 pm

JoeB <mymail@myserver.com> wrote in
news:Xns99A1C988D1819JoeB@207.107.16.194:

>
> "usmcmom" <usmcmomster@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in news:46dca5e2_2@cnews:
>
>
> I believe others told you to save the image as a .psp file, not a
> .pspimage file. Also, I believe they told you to save it as PSP7
> compatible, not PSP5 compatible. And I think Spandex said to save as
> Animation Shop compatible. Did you do any/all of these things?
>
> Regards,
>
> JoeB

I should have added that you are trying to open a picture tube in
Animation Shop (which is PSP7 compatible) that you saved as PSP5
compatible. PSP5 and PSP6 tubes are not compatible with PSP7 and need
to be converted. If you are actually trying to use images that are PSP5
tubes and want them compatible with PSP7, then they need to be
converted. The converter for them can be found here:

http://www.jasc.com/support/custome...8components.asp

or, if it wraps, a shorter url:

http://tinyurl.com/2czft

Regards,

JoeB

usmcmom

2007-09-05, 3:16 am

Thanks Joe