Photoshop Vs. Paintshop Pro
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- Redmond0
I find that Photoshop gets closer to paintshop pro with each new release. I liked version 5.5 best.
- BonSeff0
http://www.mac512.com/macdraw.ht…
it lets you use like 11 colors and stuff
- unknown0
you find that photoshop gets closer to paintshop pro? im missing something here. please elaborate.
- chilaquil0
XRes.. from Macromedia
err... ok. Photoshop...
- Redmond0
My beef with photoshop is that, while it is a great program, they keep adding garbage features I don't need.
1- The huge ass, unresizeable options bar. +The fact that you need to bring it up for some operations you could just right-click to do in the past.
2- The contingency something tool.
3- Version 7 automaticaly rips alpha channels out of tga files. Why???
4- The new icons are in color and ugly, I keep expecting them to rotate in 3d next version. I like photoshop cause the interface can be made near invisible, letting you concentrate on your work. Not the workspace.
5- They still don't have costumizeable short-cuts. Wich would be pratical since simple things like renaming a layer needs a whole sequence of shortcut keys.
6- I've never used the layer effects out of my own will.
That wouldn't bother me so much, if it didn't get in the way of what I liked about the previous versions. But I guess majority rules and my employer pays for it anyway.
- welded0
Apples. No, wait. Oranges, deffinately oranges.
- PeterNorf0
BS
- unknown0
yea, im sure its comparing apples to oranges. PSP's menu is so goddamn ridiculous, half the tools are so stupid. plus it comes with all this goofy clip art.
- snebold0
"renaming a layer needs a whole sequence of shortcut keys"
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Um, just double click on the label of the layer and type in the new name. About as easy as it can possibly get.As far as shortcuts go... see that thing called the Actions palette? Click the new action button, record (or assign menu items) what you want to do, then assign a fkey to it.
- ganon0
well i work with some idiots who us corel photopaint and cant understand why i refuse to touch it and only use photoshop....
so the question is whats worse...photopaint or paintshop pro?...
- Redmond0
Of course I know what actions are, I've been using Photoshop for nearly 10 years. An action is not a short-cut. I've only used Paint Shop Pro a handful of times.
One thing I have to say about Adobe though is that their products work! I got Painter by Corel, it's great and better for drawing than pshop but damn, nearly all the freaking other tools either don't work, don't do what you expect them to or are buggy.
- Carty0
PS is pretty much industry standard... try giving a client a flick in any other format... lol!
- meloyelo0
i think one can rock the bomb styles when less options are available. do you know of a good superbasic paint program for OS X? Something like Microsoft Paint?
- blend20
It should not be a question of which tools, but rather how you use them right. PS has a different logic than PSP.
We all propably use PS, because it is (or at least was) the best alternative out there. I would still like to keep my mind open. As technology matures it is quite likely that Adobe will not have the same kind of advantage over its rivals as it has been used to. Meanwhile the competition should get its act together. I really don't understand which clientele they are catering for. Their products are too pricey for consumers and too quirky for profs.
- ribit0
This program has brush choices a bit like Microsoft Paint, and you have to draw on the desktop, so you can't even forget where you saved your stuff! Hows that for simple....
- Danski0
Paintshop Pro sucks ass
Maybe it will choke on dick
Photoshop triumphs
- Danski0
On that note, I just spoke to an art department who didn't have photoshop. Oh no. They had Photodraw. I was confused to say the least. So I take a little wander around google and discover that PhotoDraw is a discontinued component of MS Office. I nearly shit a brick. All our stuff is in InDesign and PS. So at the bosses command we had to cut all our lovely vector artwork into shitty resolution TIFFs so that this farce of a company could handle the files.
Sometimes I just despair, I really do.