surfin2u - 5:43 pm on Mar 12, 2007 (gmt 0)

It's interesting that Photoshop is so highly regarded for print CMYK work. The name Photoshop implies its main purpose is photography, but I do some print work with it too. I'm getting ready to run a print ad in which I need to convert an RGB photo image to a CMYK halftone to print in a newspaper ad - something that I've never done before...

Regarding open source - some software has reached the stage where it is more of a commodity than new, cutting edge development. I think that's where open source can do well. Vendors, who need to make a profit by selling commodity-type software will try anything to slip in something that will lock you into their proprietary solution, whereas open source won't do that. Operating systems, and more recently databases come to mind as examples of commodity-type software where open source is offering more benefits than just price - namely, interplatform support, wide acceptance, large user base, ...