So I am a Photoshop user. Have been for nigh on 6 years now. It didn’t take me long to get into the swing of it, and now I’m reasonably fluent. To me, certain parts of it are logical, and features it includes are eminently useful.
Occasionally, however, because other people I work with use PaintShop Pro, I have to work in that shithole of a program and try to emulate stuff that I have made in Photoshop. Which is nigh on impossible, and takes 10 times longer than it should have to!
Waaarrgghh! An exercise in frustration just to put a border around text! It drives me totally doolally!
I’m sure someone has some quick and easy way to do it, but it’d take me a month to figure it out myself in that non-intuitive piece of crap.
As another Photoshop user I’d chime in that I prefer it as well, though most of my frustration with PSP is probably a result of using it so rarely.
It did have a handly little feature I remember for drawing lines at a precise, specified angle; if there’s a similar function in Photoshop, I’ve yet to find it.
You’re nuts, PaintshopPro ROCKS! Its by far the easiest and easiest to learn “almost full featured” paint program I’ve ever seen, and it doesn’t cost a fortune.
I’ve turned several of my friends on to it and they all love it.
I prefer PSP 7 to Photoshop 5. It is far easier to learn and use, and still has very good functionality. It also works faster on my computer than Photoshop.
To each their own, I guess, but I’d rather save myself some good bucks than be able to have functions that I personally would never use.
Ugh. I agree with the OP. All I know is that I got a “How to use PSP” book a while ago, and could never get very far with it. I used PSP for a while, but didn’t enjoy it much.
Then I got a Mac, and as you know, there is no Mac version of PSP. So I found a cheap used copy of Photoshop on eBay. I fell in love with it. It just clicked for me. I am now fairly proficient in Photoshop. Never could get the hang of PSP. Besides, it doesn’t work on Mac, and as we know, a lot of arty people use Macs.
So, screw PSP.
(Another point—Photoshop has so many more support sites, support books, videotapes, Photoshop World conventions, Photoshop User Magazine, and so forth. If you get into Photoshop, you have access to so many more resources. PSP just can’t compete with that.)
Erm, this isn’t really a like for like comparison. One is a full featured industrial product for professional/demanding users, the other is a cheap, value for money product.
I lioe Photoshop, but when I was a student PSP was a lifesaver, and dirt cheap.
GuanoLad, I feel your pain. I spent two years of high school working with Photoshop for the yearbook, and when I would help my buddies in newspaper out I had to endure PSP, just because my “computer-geek” friend liked PSP better than Photoshop.
I still can’t stand to use it for 99% of my image-editing needs. Do keep it around because it’s the standard for painting cars in NASCAR Racing games by Papyrus/Sierra.
I got PS and PSP, the newest versions (early Christmas), because a friend of mine was singing the praises of PSP to the heavens. I hates it, I do!
So much of Photoshop is easy to figure out all by my lonesome but PSP requires too damn much effort and time for what I can do in a helluva lot less time in Photoshop. I swear the only thing I have used it for are the frames since I got PSP. Everything else, Photoshop.
I prefer PSP, but mostly because I’m not doing anything with it as intricate as correcting photos. It suits my needs very well, and everything onthis site was done using it. Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff is from before I learned lots of fun short cuts I’m thinking of re-doing some of it…
Used them both for years. Love both, but in different ways dontcha know! In the same way as I don’t use an power-drill to unscrew my computer case, or my watch, I don’t use PS for all of my day-to-day image manipulation needs. I always have both installed on my computer. Apart from anything else, PSP just does some shit faster and easier.
Personally, the only time I use Photoshop is when I’m making textures for models in 3D Studio Max. Everything for my website, and most quick image editing is done in PSP.
I taught myself PSP, primarily through trial and error.
Then when I got my hands on Photoshop, it was a totally alien and unworkable environment.
Sorry, but I’ve yet to come across something that I couldn’t do in PSP, and I’m not going to teach myself how to use a new program just because it’s “the thing” to use.
All I want to do is simple things in PSP, but they seem to me to be outrageously difficult to do.
Can someone tell me the easiest way to have a sentence of text, each word in a different colour and font size, that can be editable, to select it, and to add a stroke around it?
because that’s what I have to do with it most often and it’s like pulling teeth, it’s such a nightmarish struggle!
FWIW, PaintShopPro is all I’ve used and I think it’s pretty user friendly. Plus I got it for free from Amazon.com when the new version came out and they were giving away the old version (with reduced price and manufacturer’s rebate).
I use Paintshop as well. No major graphics manipulation or 3D rendering, just small web graphics, cleaning up photos of work to post, and my comic strip. Does everything I need it to and more.
I paid an outrageous $100 for the boxed package at a CompUSA, as I recall, since I desperately needed a graphics app at the time and I didn’t know of other options.
Photoshop was something like $350.
I got a reduced app called Photoshop Elements with my recently-aquired Wacom tablet (the little, cheap one) and I’ve already noticed a few tricks that PSP doesn’t have (or I haven’t figured out how to do yet.) But nothing earthshattering- Paintshop works quite well with the tablet.
As posted above, they’re two different applications. One’s perfect for us lo-tech users, the other one’s designed for higher-end graphics crunching, and is priced accordingly.
I use PSP for all my little image jobs (adding text, resizing, cropping images etc) mainly cos it’s a hell of a lot faster at doing these quick jobs than Photoshop. If I’m doing something particularly intensive, then I’ll probably use Photoshop. I used PSP first, so I guess I’m just more used to it.
I’m thinking of re-doing some of it…