Keith Whaley wrote: > Paul Stenquist wrote: > > > > The PhotoShop tutorials are quite adequate. You just have to see them > > through from start to finish. > > Paul > > All facetiousness aside, I do believe you. > My single objection to PhotoShop is it's massiveness & complexity, > similar to latest versions of Microsoft Word (or Office, if that > pertains...) > In a word ~ "Bloated!" So very much more than almost any normal person > would or could ever use!
I snipped a bit from Keith's post but I sure agree with his sentiments. Even Photoshop LE is sufficiently more complex and more of a RAM hog than what I use now which is Photo Deluxe 4.0 - which it seems is just a paired down more user friendly version that appear to follow the same rules as the full blown versions. Ive been able to just tinker with it for the most part to get it to work for me. I've never been good at reading tech manuals and, heaven forfend, any type of Video Professor or audio tape would drive me nuts. I've been able to learn stuff about it from the discussions here about Photoshop, too. Photodeluxe 4.0 and Photoshop LE were included with my Epson 1640 SU Photo scanner - That is, free. the best of all possible reason for using it :) annsan the thrifty
