Yeah, colour management is an area where PSP is really letting itself down.
However I still use it because although I have tried hard with several incarnations of Photoshop on several occasions, I just cant stop loathing it. It is slooooow, unfriendly and has some bad issues with non-dockable toolbars and control usage. PSP is an absolute joy, although I think it has lost some of its 'niceness' in the move up to version 8 and I prefer to stick with version 7 still. One of the best things in PSP is the magnifying glass tool (left click zooms in and right click zooms out, whereas PS needs a shift left click which is far less intuitive and is quite annoying if you like zooming in & out quite a lot). I find Photoshop really poor at displaying images on screen too. When not viewing at 1:1 magnification you get REALLY bad Jaggies all over the place whereas PSP is fantastic. I just this last weekend has another go with Elements 2.0 because I REALLY want to get somewhere with using colour profiles etc, but I just couldn't make head nor tail of how to do this in Elements - do you need full CS to do it properly? >From what I can deduce, I think David's preference for PSP is that the tools for grain reduction are perhaps better than his version of Photoshop. Personally I only look at grain reduction when scanning and then use the ICE/ROC/GEM built into the Nikon Scanning interface because it is partly hardware based. I am interested to hear more of David's (and anyone elses) thoughts and comments having used both pieces of software. > -----Original Message----- > From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 February 2004 11:22 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Grain Surgery for PS > > > then i don't get the point of the reference to or the use of > PSP 7 and grain in your original msg. PSP 7 is a lot worse > than Photoshop at color management and that means it's not > very useful for photographic work. it only color manages to > the monitor and not to the printer. > > Herb... > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Miers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:22 PM > Subject: RE: Grain Surgery for PS > > > > I'm not using Photoshop or grainsurgery for scanning itself. But > actually > > the scanning program does make a difference IMHO. VueScan gets much > better > > shadow detail then the Minolta software that comes with the > scanner no > > matter how manually I've tried it. VueScan also focuses > the scanner > > much faster then the Minolta software and I've yet to > notice any loss > > of sharp focus there. To a point the scanning program can make a > > difference as > well > > because of some compensation built into the manufacturers > software for > > the hardware created noise. I think I do get a bit more > noise out of > > VueScan, but usually better overall results in the end. But as for > > this post it > only > > refers to after scanning processing, not scanning itself. > > >
