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In paint shop pro, there's a way to see what size your crop is (so that you can crop the height and length of an image evenly) .. is there a place on photoshop that you can see that?

Also, paint shop pro had 'brushes' that were like stamps and you could get custom brushes from other people to use on paint shop pro but I can't find anything like that on photoshop. Can you use brushes on photoshop? What do you click on to get to them? How do you put them onto photoshop?

One more thing - is there a place you can go to 'sharpen' and 'soften' instead of using the tool manually?

Thanks!

Photoshop is far superior to Paint Shop Pro because you can do far more things. Unfortunetly Photoshop is made more for a professional setting, as Paint Shop is more user friendly to be used by everyday people at home.

You can do all sorts of fancy things in Photoshop, but it takes time to learn it all. I took multiple classed to learn Photoshop, it's not something you can explaine how to use in a few sentences online.

Here is one easy way to crop evenly:
Select all
Go to SELECT menu and MODIFY
Select CONTRACT- Choose how many pixles to contract - you can do this multiple times. You can also expand.
When to desired crop point - go to IMAGE menu, and CROP.

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(Rating: 5) Thank you! I heard all good things about photoshop (including that it was much better than paint shop pro) but I'm not sure it's for me -- considering that I only use it for making icons and things like that. But I'm going to try it out. :] Thanks!

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