[thelist] Differences in capabilities of design

[Phil]

At 02:36 PM 7/27/2001 -0500, Bob Boisvert wrote:
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>Comparisons to make:
>Dreamweaver 4 & FrontPage 2002(or other)

There simply is no comparison! FrontPage is a lame, Microsoft specific page
writer. Furthermore it is deliberately designed to maliciously create
defective web pages that will only work in Internet Explorer or on Windoze
machines.

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>Fireworks and Photoshop(or other)

Fireworks is a newcomer in the "also ran" category. Photoshop is the
industry standard, state of the art image manipulation tool for the print
and graphic arts industry, but it has many, many web site graphic (vs PSP)
deficiencies:

No support for gif animation (no animation shop, poor gif support)
No image archive-browsing features (it does not have image thumbnail browser)
Poor jpeg image compression support (10 steps vs 100)
Poor painting (drawing) support (no drawing tools)

It is really powerful and excellent in the way it and it's many plugins can
prepare, layer together and edit high quality graphic or photo images, but
rather slow and buggy (bloated) on Windoze.
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>Photoshop and PSP

Paint Shop Pro is one of the oldest and best all around image editing,
drawing, animating and browsing package for the PC. It is an all in one
solution with only a few minor shortcomings (vs Photoshop):

lacks color profile support/management 
( - essential for display/monitor color preview match to print work)
lacks gamma calibration features 
( - as above, for the web PC-MAC color/contrast variations)
photo retouching features not quite as subtle, or versatile as Photoshop
(lacks Photoshop's lovely image "variations" preview/selector)

It does however support almost all of the Photoshop plugins that allow
special text insertions, or layer selection effects etc..

There are very few things, other than photo retouching, that Photoshop is
superior at. PSP is a real workhorse where publishing to the internet is
concerned. 

IMHO Both are equally easy to use, but Photoshop is inferior, solely due to
it's bloat, lack of essential features, and price. If you are not doing
print work, it is plainly inadequate as a PC image management solution.

PSP is the successor to the legendary GWS (graphic work shop) in the soup
to nuts category, and it is a tour de force with only minor shortcomings.

The only other thing you need with PSP is a copy of "Lview Pro" to
fix/decompress the odd busted jpeg that will not open on either of the
other two.

Phil
webdisplays



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