PhotoS 4.0

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whome 2007-12-16 19:37:58

good value

Fairly good program, very good value

JMax 2008-03-17 10:09:11

Great value, but

At first pass this a wonderful program. I'm trying to create drawings of devices for patent applications. Only drawback for my use is the need to go back into the sketch to clean up the background and take out extraneous lines from reflections and a less than perfect (a white sheet) background. I'm still looking for something more full-featured, but this is at the top of my list and I may end up using it full time depending on how painful the editing process is.

Stexpeditus 2008-06-15 22:41:09

Not perfect, but not far from it.

For what it does, it does it very well. The only downside is that each adjustment requires a new iteration as a preview. I would prefer a quick and dirty thumbnail closeup of an area, similar to what Photoshop does. Having said that, this is in many respects better than the circuitous route one must take to make a line drawing in PS. It is certainly faster, even with all the iterations to get just the right blend of detail and darkness. One thing I would really like is for it NOT to keep defaulting to 3 in the line thickness, since most of the time I need it set to 1. Overall, however, this is a very nice little program, and the price is certainly right. I have played around with the old Streamline product from Adobe, and in many ways this program is actually better. It is far easier to use, which is probably why Adobe revamped and included StreamLine in Illustrator, and make it quite a bit more user friendly. Streamline is definately better than PhotoS, but it's also many hundreds of dollars, and it is certainly not a magnitude of times better if you had to get Illustrator just for that purpose. Yes Illustrator WILL give you better control, but with a bit of patience, you can make PhotoS do pretty much the same thing, though perhaps not as elegantly, though possibly a lot faster. I would say this is definately one of the top 3 photo to line drawing programs out there.