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>Just the clean feel of the thing, the color matching and handling, the
>color and tone 'marching ant' selection, all beat PSP in my opinion.
>PSP is also 'sharper', by their own admission, as a design 'feature'.
>They, and others, believe that PS introduces a subtle blur in many
>operations to keep from introducing jaggies and other artifacts.


So PS is blurring your images without your consent and PSP is sharpening? I
find that to be a ridiculous notion.


>>IMO PS is over-specified for a photographers tool and you pay a lot of money
>>for features you will never use.
>
>Until you go to print, perhaps. But even before that, you had various
>sorts of macros/automation for the longest time, when people were
>screaming to JASC to include such in PSP

Yeah but it is not included in 8 at a fraction of the cost of having to buy PS.

In article <>, Mark Johnson
<> wrote:

> bzbzb (zbzbzb) wrote:
>
> >>Just the clean feel of the thing, the color matching and handling, the
> >>color and tone 'marching ant' selection, all beat PSP in my opinion.
> >>PSP is also 'sharper', by their own admission, as a design 'feature'.
> >>They, and others, believe that PS introduces a subtle blur in many
> >>operations to keep from introducing jaggies and other artifacts.
>
> >So PS is blurring your images without your consent and PSP is sharpening? I
> >find that to be a ridiculous notion.
>
> No, I think the PSP guys, themselves, said that they really do
> nothing, and PS blurs as part of various operations.

In which case they're lying, or don't understand how image processing
works. (because Photoshop does no such thing)

Either way it's a bad claim for them to be making.

Chris

Chris Cox <> wrote:

>> No, I think the PSP guys, themselves, said that they really do
>> nothing, and PS blurs as part of various operations.

>In which case they're lying, or don't understand how image processing
>works. (because Photoshop does no such thing)

>Either way it's a bad claim for them to be making.
>Chris

I'm going to have to take that back. The only Usenet message I can
find, now, on groups.google that seems related to this, in this single
message. If I can find what I think I remember of the other messages
I'll post the URLs here. But I can't find anything, now.