Paint Shop Pro 9

[Battleline]

Does anyone of know any good sites for Paint Shop Pro 9 tutorials other than the Tutorials on the jasc.com page? I'm specifically interested in scripting tutorials, but any other tutorial pages would be helpful.

Thanks,
Battleline

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Much searching on my part has yielded almost no PSP scripting tutorials. :(

I had to do some relatively advanced scripting a while back and not only had to learn python (which despite what many people say, I found to be horribly cryptic and difficult to handle, paricuarly when doing string manipulations) but also the JASC built in functions. The web turned out to be useless though, and I had to rely entirely on the things that come with PSP:

* A rather complete set of pre-made scripts found in Program Files\Jasc Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 8\Scripts-Restricted
* Using PSP's script/macro recorder to generate "test scripts" that I could learn specific commands from.

The second one in particular I found invaluable. I used that to figure out how to create vector text and move/rotate it, and how to change layer properties and other things. Then it was a matter of piecing commands together and tweaking parameters to suit my needs. I won't lie though, it was very time-consuming. It took me over a dozen hours to get everything working the way I needed (although a large chunk of that was the python learning curve). Still it was worth it. I have a thousand image batch process to run with watermarking and layer effects, and it'd take a week to do it by hand everytime. ;)

[Battleline]

* Using PSP's script/macro recorder to generate "test scripts" that I could learn specific commands from.
Thanks, I was a little afraid of that, but I posted this request for information on three forums and no one knows of a good site for PSP 9 scripting. I already know a little Python, so maybe it won't take me quite so long to figure out. Oh well, I guess it's time to get to work :(

Thanks for your help