I had the opportunity to speak to 46 photographers last night at the Minneapolis Photographic Society. As I often do when speaking, I take a show of hands poll to gauge the crowd's software leanings so that I can speak in the most common terms for the room.
Last night's results:
Photoshop:34
Elements: 6
PSP: 4
Other: 1
When I asked the gentleman who was other what he used, he replied "Gimp" . I would have to say that this has been pretty representative of my finding among serious amatuers and professionals. I mentioned to the group that most of the images they were seeing during the presentation were prepared by PhotoPaint and asked if any had heard of it. One person asked if it was the program Painter. Pretty sobering but not surprising.
Results of a spanish forum:
http://www.forocreativo.net/ipb/index.php?showtopic=18066&st=
Photoshop: 81.82%
Corel Painter: 10.91%
PhotoPaint: 4.55%
Others: 2.73%
Most people see PhotoPaint as "part of CorelDRAW", like Barcode or Trace, not as a independient software.
Hi Ariel
I know many of them who have not even opened PP. These users use PS & DRAW combination. I had a hard time to convince the institutes to include PP in the course. I also had to demonstrate some functions that they thought were not in PP.
Rikk's poll results did not surprise me at all.
Ariel said:Most people see PhotoPaint as "part of CorelDRAW", like Barcode or Trace, not as a independient software.
Anand
These are the same people who rant and rave about the microsoft monoply! But there is a whole world out there of graphic software they cannot see!