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Brian said:what are the main features you like to use in PSP
You may have guessed this but as you know color is something that I'm doodling with so the features I'm looking at first have to do with color. BTW color management in PSP X3 is application based because it's geared toward home users but you easily get IDENTICAL DISPLAY in Photo-PAINT X5 or older, PhotoShop 7 or later and PSP X3.
I don't want to bull$hit you PSP X3 is a $100 tool and as that a damn fine one but guys like you and me will need both PSP X3 and PP X5 and since one of my Christmas presents to the family is scanning some old family photos and framing a few but providing print sheets of many others having the TWO TOOLS has improved my satisfaction wit the end results. Some of the tools in PSP X3 are not real sophisticated in their appearance but they are geared toward simplistic use, but a user with a calibrated display can get some fine results, some not obtainable without PSP X3, some not obtainable without PP X5 and some not obtainable without having both.
Under the adjust menu
Color / channel mixer - fade correction (is real nice for old pics) and then red green blue
brightness contrast has many available sub menus the curves are not as sophisticated as PP.
Hue and saturation has colorize (?) hue saturation and lightness is nice, v ibrancy is a bit lacking as I believe you shouldhave that and saturation in the same dialog and the hue map is weird to ge tused to but with some exploration it becomes a quick fix for BAD SNAP SHOTS.
There are a tone of features and I mean a ton such as smooth skin, red eye removal (which I think works better than PP) digital noise removal. IMO for $100 it's a no brainer just get it.
Hi David,
maybe I need to revisit PSP again? It is a tough one for me in that I don't find anything lacking in PP for the things I do with images. On rare occasion I use PS for the Healing Brush and then immediately return to PP to keep working. If only they added a proper Healing Brush to PP (in addition to the current Retouch Tool which has other very useful purposes) then I work never need to leave PP. PS has some very sophisticated tools, but they are tools that I personally rarely ever use. Another good useful tool it does have is Auto Align Layers. That would also be a nice touch for PP.
Best regards,Brian.
Brian said: If only they added a proper Healing Brush to PP (in addition to the current Retouch Tool which has other very useful purposes) then I work never need to leave PP.
Hi B,
Like yourself, I use PP as much as I can.
There are some tempting features in PS, hopefully Corel develops similar equivalents to things like perspective edits, layer styles, a better color replacer effect (in meantime I use this free plugin for PP), and a healing brush that works like PS's.
Other hopes I have are easily savable tools that can be accessed from hotkeys (numpad). I find myself fiddling with parameters too much, and want one key press access to saved tools.
Hi Jeff,
I just downloaded the ColorReplacer plugin to give it a whirl. I seem to remember downloading it once before when it was mentioned in the NNTP newsgroups, but I don't think I actually tried it.
The funny thing here is that I can actually get better results with PP's Replace Colors feature than the one in PS, only it takes a little more fiddling around. The problem with PP's is that it is actually buggy and two of the sliders (Saturation and Lightness) have a mind of their own and keep changing without one telling them to! When they are in the wrong positions the image looks terrible. If you are constantly aware of this and keep manually putting them back to zero (at least as a starting point) then the feature actually works really well. I will have a play with the new plugin after my lunch.
Brian said:I just downloaded the ColorReplacer plugin to give it a whirl.
Where did you get this?
I just typed a reply to you and then it did the usual "Internet Explorer cannot display this page" rubbish and so I appear to have lost it. If you get 2 replies you will know why.
Jeff posted a link to the plugin in his last post. For convenience it is here.
Phil posted a new thread on this topic and that can be found here. We did a couple of comparisons between PP's own Replace Color feature and the plugin. I am interested to hear your opinion on this.