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Sep. 16th, 2007 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashLike most people who use an old, many-featured program, I use about 10% of Photoshop's features beyond the most fundamental basics. If that. There's a certain set of things I do with it, and certain tools I reach for again and again. I don't need 90% of Photoshop and probably never will - but my required 10% is pretty different from your 10%.
Acorn is not going to replace Photoshop for me - my scan-processing workflow relies way too heavily on adjustment layers and macros - but it runs a hell of a lot better on my machine than Chocoflop ever has.
Although I really don't think that any of the people working away on Core Image-centric image processing apps are targeting a 1.25Mhz Powerbook.
One thing that every single Funky New Mac Art Tool seems to consistently lack (now that there's enough to make generalizations) is a swatch palette. Everyone just relies on the fact that OSX's color picker has one. Which is all well and good - but it's only got so many slots, and it's shared between every single program that calls up the picker. Not so good when you might want to associate a palette with a particular image.
(Meanwhile, idly reading about Acorn and the choices its author made lead me to Magma Effects, which plugs Core Image effects into Illustrator. Woo! Unfortunately for my CMYK-preferring ways, it only seems to work on RGB documents. Foo. It also started complaining about being an expired demo copy after just one trial, and refused to bring up its interface.)
Acorn is not going to replace Photoshop for me - my scan-processing workflow relies way too heavily on adjustment layers and macros - but it runs a hell of a lot better on my machine than Chocoflop ever has.
Although I really don't think that any of the people working away on Core Image-centric image processing apps are targeting a 1.25Mhz Powerbook.
One thing that every single Funky New Mac Art Tool seems to consistently lack (now that there's enough to make generalizations) is a swatch palette. Everyone just relies on the fact that OSX's color picker has one. Which is all well and good - but it's only got so many slots, and it's shared between every single program that calls up the picker. Not so good when you might want to associate a palette with a particular image.
(Meanwhile, idly reading about Acorn and the choices its author made lead me to Magma Effects, which plugs Core Image effects into Illustrator. Woo! Unfortunately for my CMYK-preferring ways, it only seems to work on RGB documents. Foo. It also started complaining about being an expired demo copy after just one trial, and refused to bring up its interface.)
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Date: 2007-09-17 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-17 02:36 pm (UTC)...i was only off by one power of ten...
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Date: 2007-09-17 03:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-19 05:36 am (UTC)Also, it would be awesome to have a smart system-wide colour picker, one that could be upgraded as a module or tweaked to different purposes, but not many operating systems are so conveniently modular.