Paintshop Pro is/was a very powerful bit of software, and being dedicated to photography didn’t come with all the baggage of the equally mis-named Photoshop.
Its biggest drawback was the horrible user interface. If it had looked nicer I think it might have been much more successful.
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Back in the days there was also Pixel32 and Refraction 
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Muffin, that’s useful to know.
I am interested in photo correction more than image manipulation. Since it first came out I have used Silkypix to import a batch of RAW files and quickly correct imperfections in exposure, colour balance, and contrast. It also permits cropping, sharpening, horizon correction and a few other things. Almost everything can be done by batch or on a selection of one or more images. It’s wonderfully quick, and I seldom want to do any more to my pictures.
Darktable seems to do much the same, so it would suit me down to the ground.
I use Scripture Guide for my Bible reading since it is the only application we have in Haiku. It would be nice to see if the “TheWord” could be ported into Haiku. The URL for this software is at “https://theword.net/”.
This software is excellent to use and has many features that Scripture Guide does not have. It also supports many different translations, both free and premium. I use this software in Windows and in Linux (via Wine).
Ports don’t happen without source code. TheWord is an example of closed-source freeware. It costs nothing but also cannot be modified to run outside of Windows. Fortunately the Sword parser library is open-source so other applications that use it can be modified. BibleTime for Linux is an example of the use of this. Someone started trying to make a Haiku counterpart of BibleTime but got stuck.
Edit:
https://github.com/HaikuArchives/ScriptureGuide was it but at least it’s open-source. @Paradoxon was the guy who was working on it but got stuck. I don’t think he’s stuck any more but has a demanding day job.
Anyway, fixing ScriptureGuide is easier than having to reverse-engineer TheWord without the source code.
We’ve had a KitchenGardenAid before, but probably a younger version:
Gardening is booming in this Corona time!
It is good to learn (quickly) using software which vegetables are compatible with other vegetables, and even promote or hinder them!
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No need to reinvent the wheel: https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/tree/14c2cab5428145b93232cb69683a67bbe68a9f06/app-text/sword
Maybe I get it wrong
but aren’t Sword and BibleTime different programs?
Sword is an engine. BibleTime uses it.
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Thank you, that’s how I understood it.
No, I don’t have BibleTime, although I would like to have it under haiku!
It was pretty straightforward to build it, so maybe you can do it and create a recipe even.
I did something like:
mkdir -p build_haiku
cd build_haiku
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<path to install bibletime> -DBUILD_HANDBOOK_HTML=OFF -DBUILD_HANDBOOK_PDF=OFF -DBUILD_HOWTO_HTML=OFF -DBUILD_HOWTO_PDF=OFF
Building docs requires po4a, which doesn1t seems to be ported yet, you can do that too.
I am not learning that anymore!
But I would like to see translations of Ruth Lapide ‘in’, even if she (maybe) is not (te) right in everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Lapide
I would invest time for that!
How would that look legally?
How do you expect thing to happen at haikuports if you have questions but not commit?
Most of us are busy as it is already, we would love to see new people adding new software to Haiku(ports) 
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IBUS like app for Haiku? Keymapswitcher not helping me to type in Hindi…indic fonts
Set everything in LO writer, still unable to get the Hindi characters while typing…
Thanks for explaining the differences. I’m not a developer so I would not know about the source code stuff.
You can try the simple add-on shown below. Though the project still release no package for installation, feel free to compile it from source at your wish.
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Looks quite nice, maybe we could add it to haikuports?
I am still working on it when i have free time yet, it’s still far from being acomplished.
I’ve added libsunpinyin to haikuports, that’s one part done to get BeSunPinyin building (already checked and builds ok).