[Ti] Photoshop 8 (Was):Which to Buy?

[b]

mac2 mail paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>I presume you are using a photoshop 8 beta?

Yes.  There are probably a few versions in different developer's beta 
releases right now, I'm not sure how many. But, after testing it with 
KPT Collection, Retouch, DreamSuite, AlienSkin, AutoFX, and all the 
nik and Extensis plugins from the Version 7 Photoshop, I pronounce it 
all-the-way-ready-for-Prime-Time.  :=)

I have not always been exactly a huge fan of Adobe.  I heard they 
were ending Mac development for After Effects, and...so what 
<laughs>.  We have Final Cut Pro, and the only thing more powerful 
than that is the full 40 to 80 grand version of Avid. And 
Illustrator? I'll take FreeHand any day of the week. And the 
Quark-haters can have my copy of InDesign, with my blessing, it'll 
never replace Quark. I wouldn't use InDesign on principle (in 
addition to its inability to truly import highly technical Quark docs 
properly), after what Adobe did with PageMaker. They stifle 
competition and innovation, just like a little Microsoft. Apple does, 
too, in a way.

But, Adobe came out with three things that really altered the 
landscape: Postscript, Photoshop, and Acrobat. And, as Jake said in 
'Chinatown', "When you're right, you're right, and...you're right." 
Acrobat 6 Pro is a killer app, and so is Photoshop. I just wish Adobe 
would come out with a font management utility for OS X, because there 
isn't one that actually works with pro-level numbers of fonts, yet. 
Maybe Panther's font management is better, I hope so. Postscript 
(which is taken for granted) is right up there with the Mac GUI and 
Expander :=)

this morning's $0.02

~flipper