Even after Service Pack 3, bump map still crashes Photopaint instantly.
Phil1923 said:Hi Kutty, .. I've been making my own bump maps for years. 1. As you probably know, a bump appears as a bump because light is reflected differently from different parts of the bump. It comes straight back from the surface facing the viewer and is deflected and thus appears darker from a side surface. See first illustration. .. I make my own bump map as follows. 3. Select an image to become the bump map. The first illustration is supposed to act as a guide to what can become a bump map. 4. Run this image through the filter Effects > Sharpen > High Pass. You may have to do it several times. Most of the image will be middle gray. "Bumps" appear as darker or lighter than middle gray. 5. Drag the map over to the image which will get bumpy. 6. Switch the merge mode of the map layer to Hard Light (or Overlay). 7. See second and third illustrations. (This bump map was created with the spotlight effect and Gaussian noise.) As best as I can remember from earlier versions of PhotoPaint, this is what the bump map dialog does. Phil
I'm not sure what your point is.
Juan M. Guillen said: KuttyJoe, Have you tried cleaning up your system with a good registry cleaner? Most of the time...computers crash because your computer is full of junk(unlinked or missing registry entries) which conflict with your software applications. 9 out of 10 chances...this is what causes the majority of the software crashes in everyday computing. How many times have you defragged your computer in the last 6months or so? Alot of times computer crashes are due to bad user maintenance. I have a registry cleaner called "Max Registry Cleaner" and the first time I used it about 2 years ago it found over 2,000 missing registries from programs that I had uninstalled, or deleted on my windows XP computer. I also have it installed on my new Windows 7 64bit computer with 4gigRAM and Intel i5 processor. I defrag my computer around once every 3 months or so. And clean my registries once a month and clean my temporary file constantly. I haven't had a single crash on my computer since I can remember...not even with coreldraw X3,X4 or X5 or Photo-paint. I also have Photoshop and Illustrator installed and neither of them ever crash even when I have them running simultaneously. I try to keep my computer sqeeky clean on a current basis. Give it a try. It might help minimize your crashes It's usually not the software.....it's your system. Juan Quick Reply
KuttyJoe,
Have you tried cleaning up your system with a good registry cleaner? Most of the time...computers crash because your computer is full of junk(unlinked or missing registry entries) which conflict with your software applications.
9 out of 10 chances...this is what causes the majority of the software crashes in everyday computing.
How many times have you defragged your computer in the last 6months or so? Alot of times computer crashes are due to bad user maintenance.
I have a registry cleaner called "Max Registry Cleaner" and the first time I used it about 2 years ago it found over 2,000 missing registries from programs that I had uninstalled, or deleted on my windows XP computer. I also have it installed on my new Windows 7 64bit computer with 4gigRAM and Intel i5 processor.
I defrag my computer around once every 3 months or so. And clean my registries once a month and clean my temporary file constantly.
I haven't had a single crash on my computer since I can remember...not even with coreldraw X3,X4 or X5 or Photo-paint. I also have Photoshop and Illustrator installed and neither of them ever crash even when I have them running simultaneously.
I try to keep my computer sqeeky clean on a current basis.
Give it a try. It might help minimize your crashes
It's usually not the software.....it's your system.
Juan
Sorry Juan, but somebody has sold you some snake oil. You only need to consider defragging if your computer is suffering from a performance loss. My current machine which is only a month old and the OS was freshly installed a week ago on a brand new drive, is the fastest machine I've ever had. It doesn't need registry cleaners and it doesn't need defragging. If it did, none of that would specifically target products made by Corel would it? LOL
I'll give you some advice. When a lot of programs start crashing on your computer, then you should consider that the problem might be the computer. When only one program is consistently crashing for 17 years while others run well, then you should consider that the problem is that one program. It would be kind of silly to start messing with a system which would run flawlessly, just by uninstalling the program that crashes.
You don't have to get upset about it. It was just a suggestion.
And nobody has sold me SNAKE OIL!!!
It is just common sense from my point of view.
WHATEVER DUDE!!!!
And none of my programs have crashed either.
Even on my new computer which is a couple of months old as well.
And my old one which is a decade old.
How do you answer that question KUTTEYJOE!!!!?????