No Need To Worry About Future Paint Shop Pro vs Photoshop Debates

"Uni" wrote in message

Just an obvious question:
What has that to do with Photoshop?
Or are you just trolling for a response?

I assume it is the latter, in which case there is no need for follow up.

Bart

Yes, Corel bought Jasc. No Paint Shop Pro isn’t going any place. What they plan to do is continue to sell it but copy some of its features to Corel Photo-Paint and some of Corel Photo-Paints to Paint Shop Pro.

John

"Uni" wrote in message

http://corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel2/Section/P ress/Release&sid=1047022959204&cid=1047023901915

Uni

Bart van der Wolf wrote:

"Uni" wrote in message

Just an obvious question:
What has that to do with Photoshop?
Or are you just trolling for a response?

Behave, Bart.

Uni

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:34:50 GMT, "John Doe"
wrote:

Yes, Corel bought Jasc. No Paint Shop Pro isn’t going any place. What they plan to do is continue to sell it but copy some of its features to Corel Photo-Paint and some of Corel Photo-Paints to Paint Shop Pro.

And when they’re both exactly the same they’ll dump the one that’s making less money…

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That will be Corel Photo-Paint. For a long time now it has been consider a freebie in the Corel Graphics Suite package. I think Paint Shop Pro has a much larger paying user base. I doubt most people by CorelDraw Graphics Suite for Photo-Paint. It does have some things to offer over Photoshop and Paint Shop but it isn’t as close to a Photoshop replacement as Paint Shop Pro is. If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

John

"Hecate" wrote in message

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 00:34:50 GMT, "John Doe"
wrote:

Yes, Corel bought Jasc. No Paint Shop Pro isn’t going any place. What they plan to do is continue to sell it but copy some of its features to Corel Photo-Paint and some of Corel Photo-Paints to Paint Shop Pro.

And when they’re both exactly the same they’ll dump the one that’s making less money…

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"Corel: where good software goes to die."

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Andrew

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 04:12:31 GMT, "John Doe"
wrote:

That will be Corel Photo-Paint. For a long time now it has been consider a freebie in the Corel Graphics Suite package. I think Paint Shop Pro has a much larger paying user base. I doubt most people by CorelDraw Graphics Suite for Photo-Paint. It does have some things to offer over Photoshop and Paint Shop but it isn’t as close to a Photoshop replacement as Paint Shop Pro is. If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

<g> I use PhotoPaint as my image viewer – nothing else 🙂

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John Doe wrote:

That will be Corel Photo-Paint. For a long time now it has been consider a freebie in the Corel Graphics Suite package. I think Paint Shop Pro has a much larger paying user base. I doubt most people by CorelDraw Graphics Suite for Photo-Paint. It does have some things to offer over Photoshop and Paint Shop but it isn’t as close to a Photoshop replacement as Paint Shop Pro is. If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

Jasc couldn’t kick Photoshop’s behind. Let’s see how well the gurus at Corel will do….. *SNORE* -L-

🙂

Uni

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:49:21 +0200, "Bart van der Wolf" wrote:

Re: Uni
Or are you just trolling for a response?

Without a doubt.
He has been trolling the PSP group for ages, and is now seeking a new audience after being killfiled by nearly the entire world (well, the ones that read graphics/PSP newsgroups, anyway).

If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

No, actually, it couldn’t.

If Paint Shop Pro had a better interface and more third-party support, it could cause damage to Photoshop Elements, but it’s still so far away from Photoshop it’s not even funny.

Problem is, most people have no clue about 80% of Photoshop’s capability. It’s literally invisible. An average home user does not know what spot color is, does not know anything about selective color correction or color separation, does not know to use the Curves command (or knows only very little)–in other words, does not know Photoshop.

So another program comes along that can do about 20% of what Photoshop can do, and that average home user is all "Oooooh, look out, Adobe! This program does everything Photoshop does!!!"

Well, no. Compared to Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro is a toy;it does not implement *any* of Photoshop’s advanced capabilities. But since Photoshop’s advanced capabilities are invisible to you, you don’t know that.

Paint Shop Pro is completely useless for prepress, produces godawful poor color separations, offers no support for spot color, and so on, and so on…

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If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

As awesome a program as Corel Draw is, Photo paint is just a totally useless program if you have PS.

Tacit wrote:

If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

No, actually, it couldn’t.

If Paint Shop Pro had a better interface and more third-party support, it could cause damage to Photoshop Elements, but it’s still so far away from Photoshop it’s not even funny.

Problem is, most people have no clue about 80% of Photoshop’s capability. It’s literally invisible. An average home user does not know what spot color is, does not know anything about selective color correction or color separation, does not know to use the Curves command (or knows only very little)–in other words, does not know Photoshop.

So another program comes along that can do about 20% of what Photoshop can do, and that average home user is all "Oooooh, look out, Adobe! This program does everything Photoshop does!!!"

Well, no. Compared to Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro is a toy;

I don’t know about that, Tacit. Amish Mehta, CEO of Corel, feels otherwise: http://www.jasc.com/aboutjasc/?

Never argue with a MBA!

🙂

However, it is the absolute, primary goal of some folks to make their wallets thicker while thinning yours.

🙂

Uni

it does not implement

*any* of Photoshop’s advanced capabilities. But since Photoshop’s advanced capabilities are invisible to you, you don’t know that.

Paint Shop Pro is completely useless for prepress, produces godawful poor color separations, offers no support for spot color, and so on, and so on…

Tacit says,
"Well, no. Compared to Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro is a toy;it does not implement *any* of Photoshop’s advanced capabilities. But since Photoshop’s advanced capabilities are invisible to you, you don’t know that."

It’s like the old joke of the guy buying a chain saw to replace his grandfather’s buck saw. The salesman says he will be able to cut much more wood. A week later the guy brings the saw back saying he can only cut one quarter the amount of wood he was cutting with the buck saw. The salesman says, well let’s test this saw to find out what’s wrong and goes out back to the wood pile. The salesman starts up the chainsaw to test it and the customer says, "What’s that noise?"

For the metaphorically impaired, Paint Shop Pro is the buck saw, Photoshop is the chain saw.

Oh….Corel is the hatchet, but I think that was a different story.

Peadge 😀

"Tacit" wrote in message

If Paint Shop had a little better interface and a lot more third party support it could cause some major damage to Photoshop.

No, actually, it couldn’t.

If Paint Shop Pro had a better interface and more third-party support, it

could

cause damage to Photoshop Elements, but it’s still so far away from

Photoshop

it’s not even funny.

Problem is, most people have no clue about 80% of Photoshop’s capability.

It’s

literally invisible. An average home user does not know what spot color

is,

does not know anything about selective color correction or color

separation,

does not know to use the Curves command (or knows only very little)–in

other

words, does not know Photoshop.

So another program comes along that can do about 20% of what Photoshop can

do,

and that average home user is all "Oooooh, look out, Adobe! This program

does

everything Photoshop does!!!"

Well, no. Compared to Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro is a toy;it does not

implement

*any* of Photoshop’s advanced capabilities. But since Photoshop’s advanced capabilities are invisible to you, you don’t know that.

Paint Shop Pro is completely useless for prepress, produces godawful poor

color

separations, offers no support for spot color, and so on, and so on…
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