i find lens correction to work pretty well. actually, i had never used it until about five minutes ago after reading this. took a pretty gnarly fish-eyed picture of a skyline (with a lot of would-be right angles to gauge the filters effectiveness) and it did fine. it was a low res image so the results got a little blurry, but with a proper size image i think that would be less of an issue.
If I'm working on a design project I routinely have indesign, illustrator, photoshop and bridge open. one task, four applications. web design? dreamweaver, flash, firefox, ie (granted with ie view) kinda the same deal. not to mention random text editors, im clients, word, vmware fusion, email app etc that all facilitate me getting my 'task' done.
I have verrrryyy limited experience with the GIMP (used it for about 5 minutes before deeming it useless from a professional standpoint) but here's some other stuff, it needs, and may or may not have...
vector support (smart image, paths, etc) aspect ratio support trapping robust color management integration with other applications (page layout, video, illustration, web) robust color channel support (monotones, duotones, multi-channel)
Now the GIMP may have functionality in some of these areas, but I become too frustrated to investigate it further.
And its pretty ridiculous for people to rag on Photoshop's UI so much. With an application that complex its going to be impossible to create an interface that works for everyone, beginner to advanced. But in my opinion the best part of the interface is the ability to go to full screen mode, drop the majority of the palettes and use keyboard shortcuts.
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i find lens correction to work pretty well. actually, i had never used it until about five minutes ago after reading this. took a pretty gnarly fish-eyed picture of a skyline (with a lot of would-be right angles to gauge the filters effectiveness) and it did fine. it was a low res image so the results got a little blurry, but with a proper size image i think that would be less of an issue.
If I'm working on a design project I routinely have indesign, illustrator, photoshop and bridge open. one task, four applications. web design? dreamweaver, flash, firefox, ie (granted with ie view) kinda the same deal. not to mention random text editors, im clients, word, vmware fusion, email app etc that all facilitate me getting my 'task' done.
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I have verrrryyy limited experience with the GIMP (used it for about 5 minutes before deeming it useless from a professional standpoint) but here's some other stuff, it needs, and may or may not have...
vector support (smart image, paths, etc)
aspect ratio support
trapping
robust color management
integration with other applications (page layout, video, illustration, web)
robust color channel support (monotones, duotones, multi-channel)
Now the GIMP may have functionality in some of these areas, but I become too frustrated to investigate it further.
And its pretty ridiculous for people to rag on Photoshop's UI so much. With an application that complex its going to be impossible to create an interface that works for everyone, beginner to advanced. But in my opinion the best part of the interface is the ability to go to full screen mode, drop the majority of the palettes and use keyboard shortcuts.