to be, or not to photoshop...

[Ben_Plaut]

i have been a PhotoPaint fan for a long time, and just got Photoshop CS. I will still use PhotoPaint, but i want to learn the more 'widespread' of the two. Anyone know any ways to make the switch easier... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[skareta]

I personally vote Photo-Paint + Photoshop or Fireworks finish…
Depending on what you do, print or web. IMHO.

[RAMWolff44]

I own both CorelDraw 12 (with PP) and PS-CS and they are both useful but PS-CS DOES have more features.

It's a known fact that PP 12 was not upgraded all that much. Draw 12 was the targeted app for all the major improvments. PP 12 has better stability and speed but many of the features I have asked for were obviously passed up. Yes, you CAN accomplish what ever you need to accomplish in PP 12, it's just a bit more work and work arounds to get there. PS-CS is much more straight forward.

All those years thinking that PS was going to be so hard to learn and yadda yadda yadda.... All it takes is being a hair dresser in the Silicon Valley with a client that is a projects manager for Adobe and getting the program for a birthday gift and your all set to go (that would be me http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif )!! The program is NOT hard to learn and there ARE more features that are more straight forward. On that note, while I'm thankful for the PS-CS gift I am a Corel fan for life. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

PP 8 was the very first painting program I ever used (besides a little wonder called LView Pro, which I don't like the direction it's taken in the last few releases, so I'm pretty much over it), so I will remain a fan and purchase my upgrades and hopefully by Draw 13 (lucky 13) PP will be overhauled and it will be in the running as a more high end, industry standard that it was all those years ago.

I have faith and I hope that Vector Capital can make it work. I think Painter should be put to bed and PP should be the real focus and incorporate all the useful technology from Painter into Photo-Paint and then your really going to have a great stand alone program as well as including it in the Draw Suite, either way I think it would make money for Corel.

Just my 2¢ http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

[skareta]

PS: perhaps, I should have used "quite a few things" instead of "lots of things". Anyway...

[Ben_Plaut]

Thanks!... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[skareta]

Actually, I have already tried.

See "DTP", "prepress" if you're inclined to pursue this subject. I am quite certain that it can do just about anything to meet your particular needs but that doesn't exactly mean it can do everything and for all situations. (same goes for photoshop).

With due respect to photo-paint, from a photo-paint fan since version 5.

Best regards.

[Klaus Nordby]

Micrografx Picture Publisher was my favorite bitmap editor for many, many years: I did not fully switch to Photoshop until version 6. Picture Publisher 5,6,7,8,9,10 was and is an excellent tool, which still has some neat featurs not found elsewhere. It's sad that Corel isn't developing it further.

[@lepacca]

Corel bought Micrografx Picture Publisher in rel. 10.
I use PP8 and i thik that it is a beautiful program. You can use PSD and EPS file and all other graphics format.
It's fast, not expansive and simple to use.
Why Corel has stop this program?
Best regards,

[AjIsCoool]

hi

i used photopaint since version 5

and it was a real threat for photoshop

but lately -- the development of it is very slow due to the company problem with money

anyway - i still use it -- but looking at photoshop new features --- you can tell that we are really losing a lot of smart features that found in photoshop cs by sticking to photopaint

i am like you -- all my job is done by photopaint -- but i can not ignore the features that CS offers

i wish that corel spend more money on it is app's

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[skareta]

I am kind of tired of getting frustrated with each new version of Corel Photo-Paint and DRAW.

For some reason, inexplicable to me, old shortcomings and obvious bugs tend to pass from one version to next. They're either blind and deaf or just plain stupid to let this happen.

Soon, we may as well forget about CorelDRAW and Photo-Paint as once splendid tools.