> > Actually, this very much depends on the country you're in - something
> > I should have noticed before. It seems to me that in the UK at
>
> Thats interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that anywhere else would
> be significantly different to the UK.
Yeah, I'd forgotten that when I started writing in this thread too. :)
> >and schools. These clients are placing huge orders for machines which
> > I'd be proud to play games on :)
>
> I think I'll move to Australia :-)
Argh, not another one! Er -- I mean, uhm, Hi!!! Welcome!!!! :)
> > (But, I do like Photoshop still :))
>
> Yeah. There is a serious lack of any decent 24-bit drawing programs on
> the Miggy. Photogenics is still too much the image processing tool to
> be usful for art, imho, and XiPaint falls over every 5 mins on my
> machine :(( I've never used Photoshop - I hope its better than
> CorelDraw, which I can't stand ;-)
CorelDraw and Photoshop are significantly different. CorelDraw is a
structured drawing package, while Photoshop is when it comes down to
it, a bitmap art package with knobs on. CorelDraw comes with Corel
Photo-Paint nowadays, which is more Photoshop than Draw ever was. It's
actually quite a good program (its user interface is very Office97-
influenced) but for those of us who know Photoshop there's no point in
learning another.
As for Amiga art packages, Art Effect is a program I'd have high hopes
for if Haage & Partner would just employ someone with a brain for the
user interface design. Simply put, its UGLY. There are some real
braindead ideas in there (judging by the screenshots in the AF
review), ideas that were obviously *influenced* by Photoshop but
didn't have anywhere near the time and consideration neccessary for a
decent GUI applied to them. It's also rather crash happy :-\ And
although it supports layers it can't - to my knowledge - load
Photoshop PSD files (so, whats the point?), and the program needs
custom-written font support for TrueType fonts since the Amiga's
ageing font system simply sucks.
A few tips for any H&P staff reading this, that last paragraph was. :)
ImageFX is actually the most Photoshop-like that I know of on the
Amiga. And I don't have it. :-\ But I know it has layer support, and
loads PSD files. I'm also not sure exactly how it works, but I believe
it can use Photoshop plugins, which would be mighty interesting. Could
someone actually tell me if that's true? If I can use Eye Candy on my
Amiga, I'd love it to death :)
The one thing I haven't had enough time to use though, is Photogenics.
>From what I've seen, I like. It's a bit nonstandard (okay, a LOT), but
I'm hoping to pick it up at WOA, and maybe ImageFX too.
Hey, if I can justify it, they might buy me an Amiga @ work. :)
Jason
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