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Cheaper alternatives to Photoshop? (1 Viewer)
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craig whitmore
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hey Mick: Also got a new burner recently and have Nero Express 6 bundled with it. Is this the same as Nero 6, cause I can't find "photo snap" anywhere in my program?Mickymouse said:
Craig :h?:
Mickymouse
Ubuntu Linux user
I found it by accident one day (I am still running W98 if that's relevant) I clicked on start>programs looked down the list and there was Nero with a little arrow next to it, hovered on that and some more sub menus appeared and Photosnap was amongst them, I just draged it off there and dropped it on the desktop, hope it works for you, this is what it looks like.
Mick
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Gramayr
Slightly barking..
Also, have you considered a computer fair? Sometimes you can get older versions of Photoshop quite cheap and then you can upgrade it to the latest version (as long as it isn't registered that is). I saw a CS2 upgrade, boxed, the other day for just under £90
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
SiG
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I've just begun using Gimp, and decided to put it on my workstation at work, so I emailed my IT Manager ~
Hi Ben,
Not sure if you know this programme, Gimp, but I'd like to install it on my work laptop. It's a Linux programme, I'm going to have to install a runtime environment too, apparently.
Is this ok? Anything I need to know or am I safe to go ahead and do a local install?
Ben replied:
It's an excellent programme, we have it installed on all the graphics machines at the campus building. Out of curiosity, what are you using it for?
I replied:
Thanks for that, Ben.
You know I do a bit of birdwatching from time to time; well, I've just bought a camera and have been taking some photos through the telescope - a technique called digiscoping. Given that I'm using a 3x zoom on the camera, and usually 30x on the scope, many of the images aren't that sharp and need a bit of tweaking. So I was looking for a programme that has a function similar to the Unsharp Mask in Photoshop that was open source.
Ben replied:
Sir,
Can I just make sure I've got this right: YOU WANT TO TOUCH UP BIRDS USING A GIMP MASK?
Ben's now unemployed
Hi Ben,
Not sure if you know this programme, Gimp, but I'd like to install it on my work laptop. It's a Linux programme, I'm going to have to install a runtime environment too, apparently.
Is this ok? Anything I need to know or am I safe to go ahead and do a local install?
Ben replied:
It's an excellent programme, we have it installed on all the graphics machines at the campus building. Out of curiosity, what are you using it for?
I replied:
Thanks for that, Ben.
You know I do a bit of birdwatching from time to time; well, I've just bought a camera and have been taking some photos through the telescope - a technique called digiscoping. Given that I'm using a 3x zoom on the camera, and usually 30x on the scope, many of the images aren't that sharp and need a bit of tweaking. So I was looking for a programme that has a function similar to the Unsharp Mask in Photoshop that was open source.
Ben replied:
Sir,
Can I just make sure I've got this right: YOU WANT TO TOUCH UP BIRDS USING A GIMP MASK?
Ben's now unemployed
RAH
Well-known member
John,
LIke most PSP users, it appears that you have used version 7 for so long that you are very comfortable with it and still use it. I do too. However, I do think that version 9 is a marked improvement, and you should try to use it more and more, because you will find it to be more powerful and just as easy to use once you get used to it.
I know that PSP 8 had some stability issues, but I think version 9 fixed that. I say I "think" because I have switched to using version 10. I can report that version 10 is extremely stable. As I mentioned on another forum, I spent weeks editing a very large image with as many as 30 layers, working on it for hours at a time, and PSP 10 didn't crash or even hiccup even once during this whole operation! I know Corel has a reputation for delivering somewhat unstable programs, but not in the case of PSP10.
LIke most PSP users, it appears that you have used version 7 for so long that you are very comfortable with it and still use it. I do too. However, I do think that version 9 is a marked improvement, and you should try to use it more and more, because you will find it to be more powerful and just as easy to use once you get used to it.
I know that PSP 8 had some stability issues, but I think version 9 fixed that. I say I "think" because I have switched to using version 10. I can report that version 10 is extremely stable. As I mentioned on another forum, I spent weeks editing a very large image with as many as 30 layers, working on it for hours at a time, and PSP 10 didn't crash or even hiccup even once during this whole operation! I know Corel has a reputation for delivering somewhat unstable programs, but not in the case of PSP10.
PSP XI was announced on 9/12, the same day Adobe announced PSE 5.
