and then it updateD

When a program updates it usually means a security threat has been fixed.. In the case of some programs they get better.. Around the 24th of June PantDotNet got updated.. They had been talking of the update for this program for the better part of the past three years.. To me I was hoping it would be a great update to the version everyone was waiting for.. I was hoping for the update to be like the reason to ditch Photoshop.. It isn't, but it is better than Photoshop in that the program has always been easier to use than Photoshop ever was.. There are things (effects) that photoshop has that PDN still doesn't have and so that's the only reason to keep it.. Yesterday I got PDN 4.0 and tried it.. Checked the forum first and found out that a lot of the plugins that I have more than likely won't work on the new version..  PDN 4.0 has been updated to where you have to have a dual core and works on any new modern computer with 2,4,8,and 16 core computers.. 16 cores, really???   So I initially let the program update with all of my plugins  intact just because I have every time on every update before now.. However after reading the forum I thought I should start from scratch on the program so I deleted it with all the plugins as well..  And then got the core of the program, or what I should say is the program only without the plugins.. I deleted all the plugins from the folder they were in and also the zip files that were contained in the download folder.. I have the program and all of it's plugins on a flashdrive just in case the new 4.0 is crap.. First off, the new version is not crap.. That being said it is new, developed in beta mode for however long.. The plugin I missed the most would be the curves+ (plus)..  However the strangest part of saying this is I use and have been using FastStone image viewer to edit my pictures and rarely use PDN..  But it's good to have when I want to do more involved editing of pictures and picture projects..  So is it better to have fewer choices for the process??  I was always wanting to delete the majority of the plugins, not that it was more confusing to have that much choice but more to have what the program base is.. Then add only what I know I have used.. I got all those plugins and thought I'd see what I used and delete what I didn't.. That never happened before yesterday.. I will now use the more basic version and only add the plugins as they are set for the new version if they become available or if I dislike the new version of PDN to delete and reinstall the old version from filehippo..  It's nice to know you can do that if a program doesn't agree with the way I use it.. Over the next few weeks I will try it..   Get back to you with the answer to is this version of PDN better later..

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