Adobe has followed Microsoft's strategy in creating the impression in
consumers that they *need* a particular product and nothing else will do.
Frankly, nobody *needs* Photoshop except graphic designers and folks doing
their own prepress work.
Same applies to my software, Corel Photo-Paint. It does everything
Photoshop does except extort money from suckers' pockets. I'm glad to have
P-P since I expect to do some of my own prepress work. And I'm especially
glad to have received it as a gift, 'cause there's no way I was gonna buy
Photoshop.
But for many of us just wanting tools to tweak photos for online/onscreen
viewing, there are many simpler, less expensive programs available. I still
use PhotoDeluxe and a Ulead Systems program for quick prepping of images for
online viewing.
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Lex Jenkins
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"Yeah. Me. Baby. Love. Dig. More. Night. All. You. She. Car. My.
Her. Top. Down." - Assemble it yourself rock song
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