+10 on all of the above.
I, too, used to use a vector drawing program to composite rendered layers.
I finally turned to Photoshop after eons of disappointments.
-g
+10 on all of the above.
I, too, used to use a vector drawing program to composite rendered layers.
I finally turned to Photoshop after eons of disappointments.
-g
I also turned to Photoshop but working in Photoshop I always feel pain and nostalgy of how easy and quick things in Xara were. Crop, copy, feather , and recompose, scatter along a curve, all in just a couple clicks .
In Photoshop same is so annoying I always kind of gasping. And the "names" system is so brilliant idea. I really need it. Would buy Xara for tripled price in a heartbeat would they do 16 bit grayscale image support at least.
Ironically, I use Xara for just about everything except for image editing, where the engineers are putting a lot of effort.
Xara needs:
• The capability to read and write image data to several color spaces in addition to sRGB.
• Color profiling. How else can an artist calibrate and ensure their work on Tuesday is the same as on the next Wednesday?
• Channels. Not transparency masks, but channels, where you can, for example store a bump map, so the effect can be done in a better Live Effect than the limited Emboss.
• Resampling done with a weighted average of bicubic interpolation.
•Rotation where you can see what the exported file will look like. Here's a magnified view of a rotated bitmap. How can you tell how smoothly this will export?
Does Xara export pixels that are rotated? I don't think so.
• Types of sharpening and blurring on the PPhoto tools toolbar.
I truly appreciate the capability to integrate photosa with vectors, and the non-destructive editing of bitmaps.
But you can't do color-critical work in Xara, nor for the price should you expect it.
My Best,
Gary
If I simply select a text box of either sort, I would like the font context bar to be displayed.
I find it a pita to have to double click or otherwise select the text tool, highlight, then change the font, size or attributes.
Bookmarks