And that's precisely why I am less than thrilled with Adobe and their double whammy of switching to a rental license with a significantly higher price.
I could probably go n for quite some time, but here are some more:
7) Painting on a layer mask with an opacity of my choosing (typically 30% or less)
8) Adding blur to a layer mask
9) Applying a curve to a layer mask
10) Viewing channels of a pixel layer
11) Creating precise selections and saving them
12) Paths
14) Color Range selections
15) Creating a selection and then inverting it
On closer examination, Acorn appears to convert files to 8-bit, even though the documentation suggests otherwise. Am I missing something ? Why go to the trouble of making an otherwise lovely application and not provide support for decent bit depth ? I could understand if they were trying to build the application on different platforms, but OS X only should make that easier, no ?
There's always Pixelmator on OS X as another option but again that doesn't support 16 bit and converts files to 8 bit, however it is a pretty and quite functional image editor. Although doubtful it would be up to the job that many of you require of it. I'm quite amazed that no one, even prior to Adobe's recent announcement, has ever stepped up to build a legitimate competitor to Photoshop.
I am not surprised at all. Adobe was the early entry into this field, and for a long time the product was readily available to most people. At universities it was basically free to students and professors at on-campus labs, and relatively inexpensive to buy for students and professors.
But with the CC marketing strategy Adobe has left a gate wide open to competition, and I have no doubt but that in a relatively short period of time someone will drive a big truck right through that gate.
Sandy
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...and then they'll have to deal with customers who want to know why they haven't implemented Feature X from Photoshop. "I need Difference Clouds for my overly complex workflow!"
Time will tell... I anticipate many things like Pixelmator, but nothing with 16 bit, paint, filters, layers, actions, etc. That's a lot of development time just to make something that will ultimately compare unfavorably with Photoshop.
I will probably go back to PWP when I've run out the string with CS6. Details here:
http://dl-c.com/content/view/47/74/
And if thats not enough then you can get silver efex pro.
David Cary
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