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Ok, I have Adobe Photoshop, and Illustrator, but for quick and dirty web work (90% of my graphics work), I use Paint Shop Pro, and have for years. I just find it a really simple to use prog with tons of great features that make it ideal for a lot of webwork (not to mention a quick and simple screen capture tool ten times as easy to use as anything Adobe has ever come out with).
So I'm a sad to see Jasc get bought up. First, I like the idea of "the little guy" software maker out there competing with the big boys. Second, history has shown that when a good indy software gets bought up by a bigger company, the product either gets watered down to "compete less" with the bigger companies product, or gets rolled into the bigger companies product in a manner that takes away from the products clean usefullness, or a combination of the two (look at what happened to Homesite when Allaire got bought out by Macromedia - Homesite as a standalone got neutered, and the core product got "integrated" into Dreamweaver).
On the plus side, Voit, the founder of Jasc, finally got the big payday he deserved for coming up with such a fine tool.
Any other PSP users out there sad to see this happen?
I have been devoutly resisting industry pressure to use Photoshop for more then a few years. Thinking that using Photoshop for web work is rather like using a shotgun to swat a fly.
I guess I will need to work more in Photoshop now.
Bummer,
I do like Illustrator though.
This is indeed a sad day in the history of computing...
JASC was a great company with great software. Now it's going to be ruined.
Richard
I wonder if we are coming into another period of (IT/Software) company buyouts and mergers...
Not being a graphic aficionado I refuse to pay the top Adobe $
