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In 25 years of Digital imaging some of it commercial, and sending a lot of work for Litho printing etc, I've never really used Photoshop.
I started with Aldus PhotoStyler and CorelDraw 3 which includes PhotoPaint. I quickly switched to Micrografx Picture Publisher it had Layers and many other features well before Photoshop, it was a brilliant program but Corel bought the company and killed off their products. I'd be using it still but it's no longer compatible with modern Windows 64 bit OS.
These days I use an old JASC version 9 of PaintShop Pro - a program I first used as PaintShop circa 1993 It's ancient but still good, I have tried the later Corel versions but don't like them at all, instead I prefer to use GIMP. More recently (last two weeks) I've moved to CorelDraw X8 and PhotoPaint X8 and I'm very impressed. PhotoPaint X18 can do all I need or want and at a fraction of the cost of Photoshop. These days I buy the Student/Home edition for CorelDraw itself, I was never bothered with PhotoPaint but in X8 it changed.
Ian
I started with Aldus PhotoStyler and CorelDraw 3 which includes PhotoPaint. I quickly switched to Micrografx Picture Publisher it had Layers and many other features well before Photoshop, it was a brilliant program but Corel bought the company and killed off their products. I'd be using it still but it's no longer compatible with modern Windows 64 bit OS.
These days I use an old JASC version 9 of PaintShop Pro - a program I first used as PaintShop circa 1993 It's ancient but still good, I have tried the later Corel versions but don't like them at all, instead I prefer to use GIMP. More recently (last two weeks) I've moved to CorelDraw X8 and PhotoPaint X8 and I'm very impressed. PhotoPaint X18 can do all I need or want and at a fraction of the cost of Photoshop. These days I buy the Student/Home edition for CorelDraw itself, I was never bothered with PhotoPaint but in X8 it changed.
Ian