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02/09/2003 08:45:14 AM · #1 |
I have always used Adobe Photodeluxe 2.0 as I've used it for a long time I find it easy to manipulate. I notice that alot of people are using Photoshop, would there be any great advantage moving over to it.
Thanks, Dave. |
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02/09/2003 09:51:52 AM · #2 |
I can't say I've used PhotoDeluxe myself (I'm a PS7 user). Adobe seem to be giving it the heave-ho though:
"As of July 8, 2002, Adobe will discontinue selling Adobe® PhotoDeluxe® Home Edition 4.0 (Windows), 2.0 (Macintosh), and Business Edition 1.0 (Windows) software."
//www.adobe.com/products/photodeluxe/main.html
If you list some of the features PhotoDeluxe has I can list features Photoshop 6 or 7 has.
Paul. |
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02/09/2003 11:36:46 AM · #3 |
| That makes me wonder if it's worthwhile to upgrade from PS6 to PS7. Are there any important functions, features ? |
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02/09/2003 01:13:35 PM · #4 |
I use photo Deluxe Business edition 1.1, used to have home edition
Business edition has a lot more in it
Sue |
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02/09/2003 01:15:43 PM · #5 |
There are some features which might be important if you're a Web developer, but some "bugs" which are disadvantageous if you're a photographer/graphic designer. These include generating non-standards-compliant TIFF files.
For the Web stuff, they basically folded the features of the formerly-bundled ImageReady program into PS. I still mostly use PS 5.0 for DPC work -- I don't think there's anything important in later versions which can be used at DPC anyway...if you need it for work, that may be a different story. |
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02/18/2003 08:11:00 AM · #6 |
There is also a free program called The Gimp. I use it exclusively, mostly because I'm not willing to purchase Photoshop. However, Gimp has almost all the features that Photoshop has and some features that no other graphics suite has. It is worth a look at. And did I mention it was free? You can find the main page here:
//www.gimp.org
and the Windows installer can be found here:
//www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/
(install directions can be found at the bottom of this page) |
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02/18/2003 08:13:51 AM · #7 |
And you also should check out PaintShopPro -- just about everything PS can do at a quarter the price.
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02/18/2003 09:07:30 AM · #8 |
Im a Gimp user, and its as good as Photoshop for anything Im likly to want to do.
But Ive been hearing about FilmGimp, a Gimp development split used in the film industry for doing digital special effects. Its used to clean up films (removing wires, dust, etc) or, it does image files too. I think the main difference is the use of 16bit-per-channel colour, which isnt in The Gimp due to problems with US patents. |
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02/18/2003 10:49:30 AM · #9 |
Another good, cheap, photo manipulation software is Micrografx picture publisher eight. You can find it for less than a hundred dollars (19.99!! according to amazon), and it has comparable power to photoshop or any other graphics suite. Plus it comes with a lot of stock photos, if you do a lot of graphic design and are in constant need of stock photography.
Amazon link
Message edited by mk - shortened link. |
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02/18/2003 12:49:55 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by UberFish:
But Ive been hearing about FilmGimp, a Gimp development split used in the film industry for doing digital special effects. Its used to clean up films (removing wires, dust, etc) or, it does image files too. |
FilmGimp has been taking over in film compositing\special effects. Lots of special effects companies are using it (ILM, Dreamworks for example).
This article was written just two days ago: //newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/16/1355224.shtml?tid=6
In the end it's just Gimp with some extra functionality geared towards film.
For photo image processing, I don't think that FilmGimp has any advantages. |
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02/18/2003 01:03:06 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Jak:
And you also should check out PaintShopPro -- just about everything PS can do at a quarter the price. |
I use PaintShopPro7. I know if you search online you can find downloads for it for free. You just got to be willing to spend some time searching for it. Best thing about PSP7 is it is so widely used that you can find tutorials very easily to help you learn how to use the different functions. |
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02/18/2003 01:15:38 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Gren:
Another good, cheap, photo manipulation software is Micrografx picture publisher eight. |
Along with Photoshop 6 and some other stuff I also have Micrographix Picture Publisher 10. It came along with the Wordperfect Family Pack Suite I bought for the Corel/Borland Quattro Pro 10 spreadsheet I use at work (I have had education for this program and it sells along with Wordperfect 10 for less than 100 euro's instead of the huge sum I would need cough up for Microsoft Excel or a Corel Office suite. Excel contains a lot of Quattro features, MS had to pay a lot of money to Borland/Corel to be able to include them).
Anyway, back to PP10. I think it has a lot of great features and it works great, but..........
It absolutely sucks at resampling images, it makes a real mess of it when you downsample. And yes, I know what algoritm to choose. This could be overcome when you manipulate in PP10 and resample in another, unsharp mask in PP10 and use another program to save to jpeg. In that order.
Why, because like the resampling the jpeg algoritm sucks as well.
It would be a great program if it were not for these two image quality ruining things. All other features work pretty good and a lot of photoshop features are present.
I'll stick to Photoshop for now. :)
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02/18/2003 01:51:30 PM · #13 |
i got my hands on irfanview ( //www.irfanview.com ) and it ansolutly great at resampling, even better than photoshop. plus it can crop and sharpen..
i'm not quite sure how to add a border though, but it's free, so it's nice. I still use photoshop 90% of the time, but some pics i've had just didn't want to resample correctly with photoshop and i had to use irfanview, thank god i had it though.
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07/16/2005 02:13:07 PM · #14 |
Does anyone if updates are available for Gimp 2? Maybe some features that are like the ones in cs or psp?
Message edited by author 2005-07-16 14:14:16. |
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07/16/2005 02:25:08 PM · #15 |
PhotoDeluxe came with my Sony. I used it until I got a Wacom tablet which included a copy of Photoshop Elements, which is the replacement for PhotoDeluxe.
Message edited by author 2005-07-16 14:25:54.
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07/16/2005 08:55:20 PM · #16 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
PhotoDeluxe came with my Sony. I used it until I got a Wacom tablet which included a copy of Photoshop Elements, which is the replacement for PhotoDeluxe. |
ummmm... I was wondering if there were any updates for the Gimp 2. I'm not sure what you are talking about.
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07/16/2005 09:42:00 PM · #17 |
PhotoImpact can do everyting PS can do and under 100 bucks.
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07/16/2005 10:27:10 PM · #18 |
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 $44 AR at Costco.
Which is Digital Image Pro 10 + (Supports RAW now) and Digital Image Library 10 which is a sweet way to Organize, Flag and Archive your pics.
All the tools you need to make purdy pictures... Levels/Curves, Stacks (s/a layers), horizontal straightening tool, Smart erase, photo stitching (works great) and bunch of built in Calendar, Card, Composite projects, a ton of filters and on and on...
Great product for those who want to get right in and produce great shots...with a almost nil learning curve.
Microsofts Overview of the Product |
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