From: Peter on
"John Turco" <jtur(a)concentric.net> wrote in message
news:4BB06359.D1896D34(a)concentric.net...
> Better Info wrote:
>
> <heavily edited for brevity>
>
>> Search for a copy of Paint Shop Pro v9.01 for under $10, or free from
>> most
>> people because it is no longer supported by any company and has drifted
>> into that gray area of "almost-public-domain-freeware". Originally owned
>> by
>> Jasc but no longer supported by the company that bought it.
>
> <edited>
>
> I use Paint Shop Pro 7 and before that, employed PSP 4.12 ("perpetual"
> shareware
> version). They're both great Jasc products and are powerful -- yet, also
> easy to
> manipulate.
>


Have you tried Corel Painter? It's brush and filter collection, despite the
bugs, might make it easy to turn photos into your style of painting.

--
Peter