The spell checker is now multilingually useless. You can place different images on a page as well as multiple copies of the same one. The Picture Package is actually a useful tool. Making portions of images transparent for web use is easier. The File Browser is nice in that it shows both image previews and EXIF info for the digicam crowd. If you share a computer, PS7 allows you to save multiple workspaces. Along the same lines are a set of art studio brushes to simulate charcoal and pastel work. You can customize the size, shape, tilt, and who knows what all else. The new brush settings are a powerful tool for graphics designers. The results do not have the blurry look the clone tool produces. The healing brush and patch tools do a great job at knocking out scratches, dust, and zits. Which features fall into which bucket depends on your needs. The new features in PS7 fall into the buckets of highly useful, nice to have, and keeping Adobe software engineers employed. I work in the Adobe98 colour space to preserve colours from film that are lost in sRGB and the colours I see on the monitor are the same colours I see on the print from my inkjet.Īll or most of these issues may be irrelevant to you in which case PSP is all you need. I routinely use a complex action called edge sharpening to apply extremely strong unsharp mask to edges of objects while leaving smooth areas such as sky and water untouched. I might need to zap the chromatic aberration in one picture or reduce scanner noise in only the blue channel. I might selectively composite the sky from one exposure of an image with the non-sky from another exposure of the same image. Or separately adjust the magentas or reduce the saturation of the yellow leaves of a fall tree. In Photoshop I might separately adjust the sky and the rest of the image. That said, it took me a few days to learn how to ride a bicycle, but several months of serious effort to learn to drive a car. If you want to travel 300 miles in a few hours with 100 lbs of luggage, you need a car. If you want to go from home to the local library, a bicycle will get you there. PSP is like a bicycle compared to Photoshop's (and presumably Corel's) automobile. Like you, I used PSP extensively before switching to PS. PSP has a very intuitive interface with a feature set that covers the needs of casual to intermediate users.
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