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Thanks for your suggestions, Lynda & Pegasus! I've had PSP8 for some time, but I use v5 'cause it's simpler, stabler, and apparently has better memory management. My searching the web for deformation plugins and trying them out resulted in: Vicman's "Cartoonist" seems to be the best, but it's $20 to...

Xero, Clarity (increases perceived sharpness, can modify saturation) Redfield, SketchMaster (photo-to-drawing/watercolor/crayon,etc) Xero, Caravaggio (photo-to-oil-painting) Rosenman, Pinocchio (precise deformation) EyeCandy3, Fur (texturize underexposed hair) [My typical aims are to make so-so phot...

I use PSP5 still, and its own deform tools are pretty limited. I have Richard Rosenman's "Pinocchio" plugin; its chief limitations are that each mouse-drag-and-save-result one performs requires opening the plugin and starting over, and that its deformation area must be a circle. Does anyone know of ...

I've never seen anyone mention the use of a screen magnifier to help them see the preview window of PhotoShop filters in particular. (Everyone's always used them, right? --and it's taken me this long to realize the obvious? :oops: ) In case everyone hasn't, I found "Lens v0.9" at Snapfiles. It magni...

Hey, mehdi, thanks! I was just wondering if I should upgrade the shareware windowblinds I've been using. I'll try using the traditional Windows scheme first, just to see.

Caravaggio is new plugin (PS, PSP compatible) by Xero, at http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk The site has a few brief but sufficient instructions for using it. It's my favorite "oil" filter now, and it is free. Here's one portrait I did with Caravaggio; the original photograph was mediocre, and the filt...

I've finally got XP on my computer. It is wonderfully more stable than Win98se, but PSP5 may not be happy with the change. I haven't found anything that's impossible to do (yet?) with PSP & XP, but I have found that PSP makes its controls- and layers- and colors-palettes much larger than they used t...

There's also Sketch Master (demo) at http://www.Redfieldplugins.com, which has three filters for color (water color, crayon lite, crayon); these effects are complimentary to littleinkpot's Chalkaholic.

I've had the Redfield plugins only a few months, and I simply love them. The Sketch Master rescued several of my not-so-great photographs, too. The last time I visited the site, I downloaded Hubbabub's textures for the Redfield plugins, and they're great. It's awfully nice to have the problem of cho...

Thanks for your help, Harry. I've put a note in the readme file where I've zipped all the DLLs, so I'll have the information handy.

Thanks, Harry!

My next questions are:
which plugins need msvcrt.dll?
which need msvcrt20.dll?
and which need msvcrt40.dll?
I've got all of them in my Windows/System folder, but I'd like to know which dll goes with which of my plugins. Thanks again.

Is there a way to know which MSVCRT*.DLL is necessary for a given plugin? I.e., by the year of the plugin's release?

(I don't need info about Adobe's plugin.dll; I have that info.)

Thanks