I'd disagree - Photoshop is very customizable, and can be optimized for many systems and work flows. It's not a "one size fits all" program. There are many ways to do any one thing in Photoshop, so with a little knowledge a user can find a way that works best for his or her style and workflow. I like the idea that I can do my work in a manner that's most comfortable to me rather than having to adapt 100% to the program. And, as Godfrey pointed out, there's a LOT of information and support available for it, both on the Adobe sites, through their very helpful User-toUser forums (of which there are several), many, many on-line tutorials, hundreds of books, and so on.
To use what may perhaps be a poor analogy, it's like getting into a car and being able to adjust all the controls to your body size and type, and driving style - of course, that sometimes requires reading the manual. It's a very richly featured program, and for it to allow such freedom in the way it's used seems to make it a very well designed program, able to handle the vagaries of the thousands of system combinations that it has to work with. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 8/30/2005 1:37:37 PM > Subject: Re: Gimp, Anyone? > > Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > >Mac OS X handles memory differently than Win XP, however, that said, there > >are plenty of people working in Photoshop using 1gig or less of memory. > > > > > >The key is in knowing how to set up the memory, allocating the proper > >amount to Photoshop and making sure the OS and Photoshop features have > >enough memory to function properly. > > > I think perhaps my point was that if you have to know this, the software > is not very well designed... > > Also (like I said), this is usually where I boast about having processed > 2Gb files with 32Mb of memory, or something like that... > > - Toralf >
