Reply With QuoteOMG the sales pitch was right....and here is where in terms of non-destructive editing this thing excels: You can make 'filter layers' these are adjustment layers with filters applied where you can go back and edit the filters...I think I'm in love!
Practice map going really well. This thing has a look and feel so close to PS it's almost uncanny. This is great for me as I don't have to go through a whole new learning process so the learning curve is shallow.
The only thing I'm missing are the keyboard shortcuts so far.
Filters:
The filters that come with it mirror PS filters pretty much - there are a couple of different ones (e.g. page curl - which Paintshop Pro has) - may be useful if you want a map with a page curl I guess. Native filter list in the image below.
My version shipped with a third party filter set called 'Machine Wash' which specialises in producing a 'distressed' look - perfect for old maps. Haven't been this excited about a new filter since the 'jiggle' filter in Eyecandy. It has 240 effects, each one adjustable.
So far this is getting 2 thumbs up from me all the way.
It's also got a screen capture feature which I missed from my paintshop pro days. It looks like these guys have put the best of PSP and PS together....I'm now even more impressed than I was a couple of hours ago. File menu drop down list attached along with what the general interface looks like.
I'll try to stay objective but I can feel 'fanboi-dom' coming on. Must....avoid...fanboi.
Last edited by ravells; 06-21-2009 at 03:45 PM.
OMG the sales pitch was right....and here is where in terms of non-destructive editing this thing excels: You can make 'filter layers' these are adjustment layers with filters applied where you can go back and edit the filters...I think I'm in love!
Last edited by ravells; 06-21-2009 at 04:05 PM.
Yikes....it has a picture brush tool (which PSP has and PS doesn't) and you can import PSP picture tubes with it too...
You can import .psd files into it. It's not bad. It remembers PS layer styles (in that it converts them but as part of the image and not an editable layer style) and will imoport all the layers separately but not the scaling of pattern fills though.
Last edited by ravells; 06-21-2009 at 04:13 PM.
That filter layer looks pretty handy as well as the tube.
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Proof of the pudding though. I'm just making shortcuts to the Alienskin filters and then let's see what it can do.
Hmm works only for the native filters....but still pretty cool. I use noise a lot in my maps, and this way I can adjust the noise settings at any time.
Last edited by ravells; 06-21-2009 at 04:46 PM.
Yuck...it doesn't save EXIF data on a jpeg save...quickly falling out of love ... one or two other niggles as well.
Incidentally, Photoshop does have that feature now, too. A filter applied to a smart object becomes a "smart filter," which behaves much like a layer style. I'm not sure when that was introduced, as I skipped from version 7 to CS3.Originally Posted by ravells
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Ah that's interesting. I've got CS2 just tried applying a filter to a smart object and a message popped up saying if the filter was applied the smart object would lose its smart object status and turn into a normal raster layer.
One big downside for photoplus is that it doesn't have a decent cloud filter which is hugely important for mapping in a realistic style. It's got something called 'plasma' but it's quite pixelly and nowhere near as good as the PS cloud filter. So you'd have to get a third party cloud filter (like Xenoflex) which means more £££. Shame it was going so well!
Make sure all this info gets back to them. A lot of the problem with developing an app is that people use apps differently to the person who is programming it. They might not be into maps the way we are and don't see much need to generate lots and lots of clouds.
I've been feeding back the downsides on the photography parts, but I'll definitely tell them about the cloud filter. Thanks Redrobes!
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