are they the same ?
Virtually identical. Almost all the program features are the same; the tools, commands, and so on are all identical.
I use Photoshop on both PCs and Macs (I have three Pentium 4 systems and four mac systems I use with Photoshop). Because I make my living on Photoshop, I prefer Macs, for a few reasons:
1. The Mac has OS-level, systemwide color management built in. Windows does not.
2. The Macs are generally faster–not just in terms of overall Photoshop speed, but also in terms of productivity (less downtime, fewer problems with publishoers and vendors, and so on). At the end of the day, I make more money on my Macs, and that’s where it’s at.
3. The Mac has a niceity that the Windows version lacks; Hold down the Command key and click on the titlebar of an image and you will see the path to where the image is saved on disk. Scroll down that path and the folder the image is saved in will open for you. In terms of file management, especially when working on a large number of files from different jobs, this is really, really, *really* nice.
The Mac version can also save one image format–PICT resource–the Windows version can’t, though that’s a very, very minor issue; the PICT Resource image format is most useful to developers of Mac software.
for 99% of everything you’ll do save for those things involving color management, you’ll see absolutely no difference whatsoever between the two.
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