Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd be interested in hearing what experience others have had in finding substitutes for PS in the pure digital darkroom arena (PC, MAC or unix). I've just been given a copy of Picture Window Pro 2.5 for my birthday. The makes claim it's oriented directly toward advanced amateur photographers. It has the best spotting tool I've ever found (an "interpolate surrounding pixels" operation instead of a clone operation as in PS). And every change you make produces a new window, so it's easy to compare the effects of an operation. OTOH, the display itself isn't as good as PS - the images appear grainier and coarser. Another downside is that the colour balance controls are harder to use, or at least less intuitive than PS. But for $90 US I think it's a real bargoon. Any other thoughts? Paul Chefurka - -----Original Message----- From: Greg Locke [mailto:locke@straylight.ca] >Photoshop is a pig (grossly bloated, eats resources and grossly over >priced) and unless you are in the "print" or reproduction business, there >are other programs out there that do the job just as well with half the >headaches.