My $.02 Cleaning up graphics is one of Photoshop's target tasks. If you have the money, Photoshop is the way to go.
Creative Suite is worth the price, since it includes Photoshop, Illustrator, *and* Acrobat Pro. You will find that any sufficiently powerful bitmap editing application is difficult to use. More power usually means more options, which in turn means more ways to accidentally do something wrong! Fortunately, Photoshop is one of the world's most popular packages, so all sorts of help is available. Does everyone understand the difference between vector and bitmap graphics? I can elaborate if necessary. Joe Joe Malin Technical Writer (408)625-1623 jmalin at tuvox.com www.tuvox.com The views expressed in this document are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of TuVox, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jmalin=tuvox.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Michael O'Neill Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:11 PM To: 'Cris Reeser'; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Which should we purchase, PhotoShop or Illustrator Based on what you wrote, and assuming that the graphics you have to edit are not Vectors, I would say Photoshop is the tool for you. You are describing editing pixels, and Photoshop would likely be more appropriate than Illustrator for these tasks. If budget is a concern, you can also try: PaintShopPro $79 US http://www.corel.com/PaintShopPro Free evaluation version available Win only the Gimp **FREE** http://www.gimp.org Win, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc.. -Michael -----Original Message----- From: Cris Reeser [mailto:c...@magma-da.com] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:58 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: OT: Which should we purchase, PhotoShop or Illustrator Does anyone in the group have experience with either of these tools? My writing group is planning to buy either PhotoShop or Illustrator. We need a tool to edit graphics that have been added to PowerPoint or MSWord files. We get PowerPoint slides to edit and clean up for delivery. In places, artwork has been pasted into the slide, but contains white boxes that cover bits of the drawing or text. This method doesn't work in grayscale because the hidden lines or text show up again. We need a tool that lets us remove text in the graphics where we do not have the source file. Are either of these the right tool for this? Which tool would you recommend? Cris Reeser Sr. Technical Writer _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as moneill at meta-comm.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/moneill%40meta-comm. com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as jmalin at tuvox.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/jmalin%40tuvox.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.