![]() In my mind, training is the biggest bottleneck to greater success for PhotosPlus. By running a contest, qualified people could judge the tutorial's quality and they could set up an area on Youtube or one of the text/video blogging sites of free Serif approved video tutorials. If you wait to buy either during a sale, I doubt you would consider the difference in cost significant.ĮDIT: If Serif were smart, they'd run a tutorial creation contest for experienced users to improve the quantity and quality of the training aids available. And then, I'd wait until your replacement editor of choice has a sale. If you aren't in a hurry to move away, I would download free trials of both and test them out and decide which you want. This group is for the users of, and the posting of, images created or modified with Serif PhotoPlus software. Now that I think about it, the cost of either isn't that far apart from the other. Image quality is very high with PhotoPlus, and THAT issue had nothing to do with my decision. That being said, I think the PSP user interface is superior to Photoshop's UI. So transitioning to it from Photoshop would be easier than transitioning to PSP. It isn't a clone of Photoshop, but its user interface is about as close as you can get to Photoshop without a lawsuit, I think. If PhotoPlus has a strong suit, it would be that it is the most successful of Photoshop work-alike editors. Also, there were quite a few more amateur tutorials (of varying quality) on Youtube for PSP. But I felt that Corel had more free and paid training aids available, and if you look at the 3rd party training sites, while there isn't a LOT of training aids for PSP compared to PS, there are SOME as opposed to none for Photoplus (at least that was the way it was the last time I looked, about 10 - 11 months ago). PhotoPlus does support Photoshop plug-ins BTW. It had nothing to do with their "perceived ethics" (which is just fine in my opinion), but with my feeling that cost and 3rd party support is better with PSP. Ultimately I selected PSP X5 as my companion editor to ACDSee Pro 6, (now 7). Over the years it looks like they like to copy a lot from Paint Shop Pro, including product naming schemes, to confuse consumers. I don't think Serif is an ethical company. Maybe someone who actually uses it can give us an opinion on its value? The only issue is that I do not know if it takes photoshop plugins, but if you don't use those, this may be worth a look. ![]() The price is less than 100 dollars for the Photoplus. The feature list seems comparable to CS PS6 and I have another Serif program, for document editing, that works very well. But glancing around, one that interests me, aside from GIMP, is Serif Photoplus X6. I have CS PS6 until it does not work with an operating system (that may be a while -0 ).
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