I emailed the author of the program because I had a few questions, and thought that it was a good opportunity to confirm portability. He confirmed that the standard install, copy, uninstall procedure would enable PaintStar to be run from any drive.
(I suspect that the registry entry/s observed in RegShot were set by the operating system denoting file associations or something like that)
This is a really great image editor and one that I have ear-marked to replace my non-portable editor of choice, namely Serif PhotoPlus, since PaintStar has all the comparable features I need like multiple image format support, layers, multiple undo, combined with all the standard editing tools (custom brushes, airbush, fill, line, eraser, various shape selections etc etc).
As per the status quo:
Synopsis: PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path ,and the most common editing techniques. PaintStar has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well.
Writes settings to: .\data\user.cfg
How to extract: Unzip the setup file, Use Universal Extractor to extract application and data files from setup file and save to a location of your choice. Make sure the "data" folder is a subfolder of your chosen location. Double click on PaintStar.exe to run.
License: Freeware
System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, or XP.
Website:
http://wang.zhenzhou.googlepages.com/home
Download:
http://wang.zhenzhou.googlepages.com/paintstar.zip
