>On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:15:26 +1100 Des Paroz wrote: > >Consider Photoshop Elements. PSEL is targeted to photographers, and has > >most of the features we would use regularly, at a fraction of the cost > >of Photoshop Pro (PSP). > > > >PSP is really targeted to the high end - graphic artists, art directors, > >etc. > >PSP is the common name for Paint Shop Pro, not Photoshop, a competitor. It >confuses the issue to call Photoshop by Paint Shop Pro's name. I use PSP >7, have found it to be just right for me, and it is a fraction of the cost >of Photoshop. PSP's publisher, JASC software, sells it for $99 online at ><http://www.jasc.com>, although I see it in the retail stores frequently >with a $30 or so rebate from that price. I would say it is targeted more >at photographers than Photoshop, although it approaches the capabilities of >Photoshop, and has lots of graphics tools. However, the learning curve >isn't as steep as Photoshop's. > >Someone also said Paint Shop Pro doesn't support color management, which is >dead wrong. PSP has full support for color management. In addition to >being able to install color management for any defined monitor, one can >make the image on the monitor appear to emulate the printer in use, or both >the monitor and printer emulate the color output of any third device. This >is all done with standard Windows ICM files. > >I haven't used Photoshop Elements, but I have used all the other "mini" >Photoshops and have them to be quite crippled, compared to PSP 7, and >certainly compared to their parent, the full version of Photoshop. > >- Rick Housh -
I agree completely. I've tried everything I could get my hands on and PSP v7.04 is what I finally settled into. I won't try to compare it directly to all the other brands and I won't force it down anyone's throat, but I will say it cost (after my $30 rebate <g>) about 1/10 what Photoshop goes for retail (or about 1/5 of the special student pricing). On top of that it's faster to use all around--seems to use memory more efficiently, too, though I haven't done any stringent testing on that, it's just a feeling I have from working with these various products. Whatever one thinks about all that, PSP amounts to vast overkill for all but a scant few of the scanned images I manipulate. That being the case, why pay many times more for a "more" one will likely never use? By the way, PSP also takes nearly all of the Photoshop filters. Tris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body