Re: Fireworks2 (was Trial Programs)
by Reywob(at)aol.com
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In a message dated 10/19/99 10:21:40 PM GMT Daylight Time, randy(at)kapaa.com
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> As you can probably tell, I am a firmly entrenched PSP user, now
> upgraded to v6. There are *tons* of PS plugins that work with PSP, many
> of them free. My feeling is that if you can't do it with Paint Shop Pro
> it's _probably_ not worth doing (for web graphics) wg as opposed to
> print graphics--.jpg for photos, gif for text effects and logos, png if
> you want to be at the cutting edge.
What about compression? I'm a great supporter of this, being on a 28.8bps
modem! What is this like in PSP6? Will it compress pngs?
IMHO, FW is overpriced and overrated
> and most stuff done with it has a kind of 'canned' look. Of course,
> that's me. PhotoShop does do a few things, notably, lighting effects,
> that PSP won't, but it's not worth the bucks. If you have an unlimited
> budget, buy everything, personally I'm a big time 'best bang for the
> buck' guy!
'fraid not! Although I might run to PSP6 and FW2 - the combo is still
cheaper than PS5.5. Still need Dreamweaver though, as its not much good
having loads of art and no website!
Peter.
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