Photoshop is mighty interesting if just for its wide adoption. It is taught in probably 120% of art and design schools and everybody uses it. Maybe only for cropping, but everybody uses it. It has its cemented place in the workflow for print and video and anything, and through this blob called Creative Suite it is cemented even more, dragging all the other Adobe apps with it.

This is why you cannot really have an opinion about Photoshhop, because it looks like it doesn't look as if there is an alternative. But there is for example:

• IrfanView, a freeware image viewer, but it grew so many plugins that you can crop and stuff with it.
• Paint Shop Pro, the real amateur's tool. Comes free with some ISP contracts. Awesome effects like lightning and fire.
• Cool3D, the phattest font rendering tool on the planet. Completely different approach to pixels!
• Tile Studio, freeware to make nice patterns and tiles.
• Don't have to tell about MSPaint i guess!

etc etc ... You can always copy-paste from one app to another to get all the cool functions!
- drx 3-31-2006 10:29 pm





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