i hope you realize that the Adobe Men In Black are probably on their way to your place to shut you down permanently. followed by a load of Mac users.
I wouldn't agree, but that's only my opinion. I have Photoshop and its working like a charm. And that is one very powerful program...
I have PS and PP working at about the same error rate, once in the blue moon.
Each has things I love and hate.
PP interface for text and basic stuff I like better. PP selection tool with the line to the end I hate with a passion.
There is plenty of scope for PP to be a first choice for art and production and PS to be the choice for photographers.
A lot of people in here use Corel and Adobe products.
PP selection tool with the line to the end I hate with a passion.What? It is a fairly standard mouse pointer arrow. You don't like the tail part of it? You are a strange man Mr Yani
There is plenty of scope for PP to be a first choice for art and production and PS to be the choice for photographers.I think PP is fine for photographers. I am not saying it is better than, or even as good as PS, but it is still a very efficient, productive program to use for photographic editing. The biggest thing lacking is a proper Healing Brush, but I will also say this....the existing Retouch Tool can do things the Healing Brush cannot do....so we need both! You rightly said that both programs have their advantages and the biggest advantage of PS is the technological features added in recent years. Auto-aligning of layers is magic and being able to clone in perspective is a great feature when needed. Other things are not such a big deal: Content Aware Fill is no better than, and I believe inferior to Alien Skin's Image Doctor which works fine in PP. I still prefer the Tone Curve feature in PP over PSs Curves. The black point and white point eyedroppers are of very little value as far as I am concerned and the grey point eyedropper is definitely inferior to Sample/Target/Balance, but very handy to have for convenience while in the Curves dialog. The Mesh Warp feature is far better in PS and the Liquify feature is powerful and useful. I get better results overall with the Cutout Lab than PS's new masking tools, but in the situations where PS works as well or better...it does so in far less time! The Quick Selection tool is so much better than the Magic Wand tool. We could debate features for hours...the results would tell the story, however and I am always up for a challenge.
A lot of people in here use Corel and Adobe products.I'm one of them.
It's complex to make a comparison. It needs to be discussed feature by feature.
This damn line that goes back to the start point I hate. When you do certain objects, from memory at the end of the selection it make what is happening too confusing. I mean I really hate it.
The OneOnOne stuff is better than any other cut out system. But none of them are good enough for a function that is so critical and essential.
We would need 10 of us in the same room with everything being recorded and in a lock down with a couple of developers for 2 weeks to really sort out PP.
You have to start with the very best method and then compare. We would need to be on the same page about the very best method first.
Brian said: I still prefer the Tone Curve feature in PP over PSs Curves.
I'm gob smacked if I know how, are you using CS5? It's so quick and Auto actually does something useful in PS.
My feeling on PP is unlikely to change. Make it the very best production and art tool and worry about photographers more another day. I've been in the bring PP into Draw club for a while. I'd be dropping features and using Draw to do more of the work. Sure extract out a standalone but the real value in having more bitmap edit tools inside Draw.
Personally I would say suggest away but I'm expecting a lot in X6 because there isn't that massive task of color management and multi-tasking to do. I'd expect a 64bit app with a lot of new features and the last issues to be removed. Things like PAGE NUMBERS ON MASTER PAGES.