Re: Reply: Photoshop 5 vs. PSP 5

Yep!

To a point:

The injury comes from the print media.  Everything high end and perfect.
The enjoyable part comes in using the skills at hand to do as well as you
can to produce the best possible product given the limitations.  The print
industry has spoiled everyone.  A good dose of Photoshop or PhotoPaint will
take care of that.  As long as your expectations are not too high!  Like
1200 dpi min, compared to 72 dpi.  People most injured are those artists
that come from print and  are expecting the same quality on the net.  Aint
going to happen right away!  This is where the transition takes place.  You
can be the best artists on earth but if you can't live with yourself given
the restrictions, you likely need to remain in the traditional setting as
long as possible.

The drop in dpi is so dramatic that it's like culture shock :-)  Oh Well!
Time to improvise :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: geoff <geoff(at)agrimark.com>
To: Daniel Arvastsson <sotilas(at)canit.se>
Cc: Greg Tracy <getracy(at)erols.com>; hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
<hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: Reply: Photoshop 5 vs. PSP 5


>
>
>Daniel Arvastsson wrote:
>
>> Well,
>>
>>    I for one am glad that the price tag put on PSP is "low".
>> How else would we, "not so gifted" artists, be able to afford
>> playing with colors.
>>
>> Answer; we wouldn't.
>>
>> Then again, it is not the price of your tools that determine
>> the way your "art" will look.
>>
>> My 2 cent + taxes.
>
>Howdy,
>
>Well actually speaking as a fine artist, the price of your tools does
matter.
>If you go to Walmart to buy a 8 pack of hoghair brushes for $3 then expect
to
>invest in a pair of tweezers to pick out the hairs that have fallen loose.
Go
>and pay for better quality brushes and no problems.
>
>My experience digitally is that PSP just doesn't cut it for my needs
compared
>to Photoshop 4. I'm one of those types that can pick up any program and
make it
>work the way I want it right out of the box...PSP all I saw were the
>imperfections and the needless work in tweaking images to their final
state.
>
>If you're a hack that just wants to play around then lesser is fine. You
could
>do that in MSPaint that comes with Win95 but even then the hacks can
realize
>that that program is inferior. What it comes down to is at what stage do
you
>feel that you are performing at. That's not to say that if I fired up PSP I
>couldn't make a decent work of art but I just feel more relaxed in the
>Photoshop environment and that reflects in the image that I'm creating.
>
>Yes, the amount and cost of  tools and plugins don't make up for
creativity....
>but the other edge of the sword is that superior products will in the end
>produce superior results for people that know how to use them to their full
>potential.
>
>As a professional web design by day on the other hand, just how good of a
>program is required for scanning and tweaking logos for the web? I'm
tortured
>by how degraded I have to present images that are web based but that's the
>limits of the web. Still though I perform at a certain level and there are
>standards that I impose on myself and Photoshop just lets me keep those
>standards in the easiest and less painful way possible (with a little help
from
>Ulead).
>
>Geoff Lussier Bfa (honours)
>Senior Designer Agri Marketing Ltd
>
>

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