Photoshop Vs. Paintshop

[bonafidetees]

I have been using paintshop since the beginning and I had a little scare because I thought I did something wrong and I went to this other forum for help. Every single person has told me to use Photoshop. I have a question now. How much better is it??

I use the pen tool on Paintshop. How do I move that information into photoshop??

[fiannasidhe]

"Although Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop are functionally similar for the majority of casual users, the more expensive Photoshop offers features important to some professionals that are unavailable in Paint Shop Pro. For example, Photoshop is available in an Apple Macintosh version, a feature which remains critical to some in the print publication industry. However, PSP supports natively both raster and vector graphics, whereas Photoshop only supports importation of vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator without direct built-in edition tools. (Adobe Systems markets Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics.) This has made PSP a somewhat popular editor for vector graphics."

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Shop_Pro

There is a pen tool in Photoshop - but its mostly a short term tool for creating smooth shapes and then rasterizing them. I don't think it would be easy to convert your existing psp files if they are mostly vector based... although I am not experienced in this - so I am just speculating.

On that note, I have and use Adobe Photoshop CS2 and I love it. I do remember switching from Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop years back and remember that there was definately a learning curve - but once I found my way around I was a convert.

The last difference of course is price. The latest version of Corel Paint Shop Pro is around $100 for Photoshop CS2 its around $650.

That being said, If you are comfortable with Paint Shop Pro, I can't see any reason for you to stop using it - unless there is something you want to achieve that can only be accomplished with Adobe Photoshop.

Not sure if this helps or not, but there ya go. :)

Ryann

[bonafidetees]

Hmm, my t-shirts aren't that high graphically wise, so I was considering sticking with paintshop but it's kinda conflicting when people i talk to are telling me to use photoshop.

I'll have to look into it more.

Thanks for the info.

[Heuerproductions]

I think she was basically telling you to stick with the program that suited your designing needs best.
Good luck!

[fiannasidhe]

Both are good programs - and you should use the one you are comfortable with. You can always try Photoshop and see how you like it - here's the Trial Downloads page from Adobe:
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/#webdesdev

Good Luck!

[bonafidetees]

Thanks for the help! :-)