I would think with at great photo editor like PhotoPaint there would be more 'Photo' chatter.
I agree!
Hi Rikk,
cool question... Might it be that PP is so intuitive that it presents it's own answers to artistic problems? After all, navigating Photoshop (and the rest of the Mud Hutter stuff) can be a little like swimming in glue. I was a little concerned to read about an issue concerning the smear tool being broken in X5 though. In all, after spending time reading here, it's beginning to sound like that X5 is the first 'odd numbered' iteration to be a 'buggy' one. Going back a few years I recall that versions 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and X3 were all good from the get-go, as opposed to the even numbers, and yet I read all kinds of complaints here about X5. Just an observation after having used CD for a number of years.
Best,
Paul
Paul Johnson said:Might it be that PP is so intuitive that it presents it's own answers to artistic problems?
It's really all I use for bitmap editing, I fly in PP. I tweak it quite a bit, and made some macros for myself.
The 2 big things:
I am surprised at the lack of sharing compared to photoshop users, PhotoPaint seems to be a lesser product with sharing how to. I use coreldraw 95% since switching from adobe suites for vectors with 5% going to xara for minor things.
I still use photoshop cs4 80%, ease of use for me. That is an improvement, a year ago it was 100%. I am desiring to know and use pp 100%.
The is for photoshop users.....Would love this type active forum for pp.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?src=fftb#!/PhotoshopUser
I would love to do some color correcting, color management stuff however color critical discussions need much more serious resolution and calibration. Then we can seperate the technical from the artistic. You see a few thing in the design forum.
Here I'll post two examples of live work, first the original converted to sRGB for web viewing and the second corrected. Proplem being is that many users don't have calibrated systems nor ambient views conditions control to see thing properly.
The problem with most photographic discussion is that some people just don't take constructive critical comments well, let's face it we like what we like and there are in many cases no right or wrong in artistic intepretation just opinions so I don't understand why som people get such a thin skin about it.
Now o nth eother hand there are such things as proper and improper technical procedures, such as camera profiles and RAWS conversions, in many cases these have clear right and wrong, however even a wron procedure can be uad for an artistic outcome.
2nd image
I'm currently trying to get Photopaint to work on my new touch notebook with stylus support. It works for about 10 minutes before the brush simply stops moving. This is the X5 demo. I'm almost certain that I saw this same problem years ago. I would love to hear how some of you who use Photopaint to draw/paint are able to avoid this problem, or do you just restart the application every 10 minutes or so? The other issue I see is that the brush simply can't keep up when drawing/painting. I make a stroke, and only half of it appears on screen unless I slow down and allow it to "catch up". Photoshop is of course considerably slower when it comes to zooming and panning which makes working with it feel like quicksand on this underspec'd machine which Photopaint is very fast and quite buggy. I'm a Photoshop user, but I'm also a person who uses the tool that gets the job done. The lesser of the two evils here is Photoshop because, while it's slower to get around, it's perfectly stable. The brush keeps up and it doesn't crash, hesitate, or glitch. It just needs to be lighter on it's feet. If anyone know a cure for the slow brush, or a cure for the bug that makes it simply stop working, I'd love to hear it.
Rikk Flohr said:I would think with at great photo editor like PhotoPaint there would be more 'Photo' chatter.
I posted a photo for discussion for the first time very recently, but in the Design & Illustration Critique forum.
In fact, I was also thinking that my photo was perhaps a little OT there, but that's where the discussion was occurring that prompted me to post mine. Now I know where it would really have been at home.
I've been reading your articles at Holy Crop! and found them very useful so far, thanks for that.
When I post my next photo experiment it will be here
Rikk Flohr said: I would think with at great photo editor like PhotoPaint there would be more 'Photo' chatter.
I believe it might have to do with people not asking questions so much using Photo-Paint.
This is more like it!