That just goes to show that your highly vaulted "pre-press expert" is *****VERY***** limited … in his viewpoint and in his capabilities. His "marketplace," while it is at times quite demanding and complex, is very limited, very shortsighted, and usually employs people who become very good at following a very restricted *menu* of "socially acceptable practice" … and literally snubbing anything else just on "general principles." A couple of the choices on that very restricted menu are:
(1) PhotoShop is the **only** image editing program …
(2) Adobe Illustrator is the **only** vector graphics program
(3) PostScript Type 1 fonts are the **only** fonts you can use …
(4) Quirk Depress is the **only** page layout program …
(5) Macintosh is the **only** computer …
Those particular menu choices are now history … and no longer apply, even to the "high end" portions of the graphics marketplace. In fact … they are particularly obsolete in the High-End Photographic Imaging portion of the marketplace.
Corel PhotoPaint has been as capable … if not MORE capable … as PhotoShop for something like ten (10) years, as has Corel Draw (the vector component) has been thoroughly the equal (or superior) to Adobe Illustrator. In fact, in 1995 I was working at a high-end advertising photographer’s studio in Southern California, doing **16 bit** photo manipulation of images taken on a direct digital camera, using Corel PhotoPaint
PhotoShop could only ‘Open’ the images … but the full job could only be done by PhotoPaint! Including "Separations" and "Color Management."
Just remember when you invoke "the highly vaulted pre-press expert" that you are trying to idolize someone who really, truly, thinks "graphics can not be ‘done’ on a PC" … and who’s output is strictly limited to what can be printed on a four-color printing press. He/she may know how to perform miracles on "that press" … but usually he/she is completely limited to that device. Not all images are destined to be printed that way, and high-end imaging now goes way beyond the four-color printing press.
You might find it very educational to spend a week working on each of the following programs … each of which offers capabilities that Adobe PhotoShop can only dream about.
Corel’s PhotoPaint
Corel’s Painter
Digital Light and Color’s Picture Window Pro
Disclaimer:
I own licenses for, and use **all** of the programs mentioned above (with the exception of Adobe Illustrator), and do not profit from, or have any interest(s) in the companies that furnish them.
"jjs" <john@xstafford.net> wrote in message
"Brian" wrote in message
I beg to differ on your comment about Photopaint not being in the same universe as Photoshop. You clearly are not proficient in Photopaint. I
have
yet to find a person who could sit next to me with Photoshop open while
I
had Photopaint open and demonstrate to me why Photoshop is better…
Do that again, but this time march over to the pre-press expert. It’s
likely
he will throw you out the door.