On PS 8 - where do I find "Background Eraser"?

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Cheers    _ Hunibal _
"Kris Zaklika" <kzaklika@jasc.com> wrote in message
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> GTT wrote: 
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> Yes.
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> No, of course not, no more than a new model Ford is a free
> upgrade for an old one going back two model versions.
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> http://www.jasc.com
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> It's not the same as Photo Album. You missed the Digital Camera
> Noise Removal filter and the Chromatic Aberration filters, both
> of which are very useful to people fixing photos. You missed
> the Background Eraser (in PSP 8), which makes cutting objects
> from photos or changing backgrounds easy. You missed the warp
> tools (in PSP 8), which can change a frown into a smile. You
> missed the Straighten and Perspective tools (in PSP 8), which
> respectively straighten a crooked photo and correct perspective
> distortion. You missed the lens correction filters (in PSP 8),
> which correct pincushion, barrel and fisheye distortion. PSP 9
> has luminance-only sharpening, which lets you sharpen without
> unnecessarily increasing noise. PSP 9 has an improved edge
> finding filter, which allows you to make better edge masks
> for sharpening your images. PSP 8 has a Soft Focus filter that
> allows you to replicate soft focus camera filters used in
> portraiture after the fact. All of these are tools for
> photographers. There's a whole bunch of new effects and paint
> tools but you probably don't care about those.
>