Expensive, especially if you feel the need to upgrade often.I’d have to duplicate layers, paint the shadow in myself, position it. Doing simple, yet daily things like adding Drop Shadow would take me 30 minutes.If there were blending options, I couldn’t find them.Gimp has a very unique interface and, if you are used to Photoshop, you will probably be very frustrated with this. I’m usually a fan of open-source, but not really in this case. Honestly, I’ve been soured on it and don’t see myself trying it again. That being said, I’ve -heard- that the new version of Gimp is better. My experience with it was filled with frustration, delays, and a horrible UI- to the point where projects were being completed slowly. 2) for a 3 month period because my company had some licensing issues. I use Photoshop daily for my job (web design) and had to use Gimp(v. Photoshop does not do this! This blend if option has been a part of Photoshop since v4, btw. In Photoline this option is also available (right-click a layer, choose “color filter”), but it also offers HIS colour mode, which means it is relatively simple to target colour ranges - great for isolating areas of colour. Very handy to quickly remove the white or black background in a layer, for example. In Photoshop one can blend based on greyscale and R/G/B, and holding down the alt/option key divides the small sliders into a “more or less” slider, so smooth transitions can be made. When you open the layer properties (these days “layer styles”) by double-clicking the layer icon, there is an advanced blending category - in it you will find “blend if” sliders that control the blending behaviour of the current layer and the layers below. Is the feature called ‘blend-if’ or ‘blend’? And… what does it do? Please excuse my failure to connection with your explanation. Sorry, I’m having trouble figuring out what this feature is.
Today I discovered by accident that Photoline offers blend-if layer blending in HIS: brilliant! Photoshop can only do grey and rgb (right-mouse click a layer in Photoline, and select “color filter”. Photoline’s main issue for me was the different workflow compared to PS - it’s just a slightly different approach: selections are called ‘lassos’, levels adjustment “histogram correction”. When I mention Photoline to anyone I tend to get blank stares thrown back at me - I guess because a religious belief in Ph exists, and how it is ingrained that nothing can even touch it for image editing. Such a shame about the website and overall bad marketing, because it is the only tool I know of (except for ImageMagick) that outperforms/is on par with Photoshop in regards to pure image editing. And unlike Photoshop all filters (that make sense at high colour) can be used in 16/32bit per channel mode.
WARNING: DF012: File/Folder does not exist at C:\Adobe.CS5.5.\Adobe.CS5.5.Master.Collection\payloads\AdobeFireworks11.1.Finally someone who also recognizes the power of PhotolineĪnd btw, it supports 32bit per channel, but you will have to open the View–>Panels–>Attributes panel to access this functionality (or Layer–>Convert Layer Type). WARNING: DW024: The payload: Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Core Adobe Fireworks CS5.1_AdobeFireworks11.1.0es_ESLanguagePack 11.1.0.0. 0 fatal error(s), 12 error(s), 18 warning(s)