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Software evaluation
Photoshop
Price: £667.20
System requirements:
Minimum System Requirements:
Mac
§ Multicore Intel® processor with 64-bit support
§ Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7
§ 1GB of RAM
§ 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation
§ 1024x768 (1280x800 recommended) resolution display with 16-bit color and 256MB (512MB recommended, required for Photoshop Extended) of VRAM
§ OpenGL 2.0 capable system
§ DVD-ROM drive
Windows
§ Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor
§ Microsoft® Windows® XP* with Service Pack 3; or Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
§ 1GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation
Basic Features of Photoshop
Selection tools - we have here several tools for selection:
· Shape selection – you can choose between basic geometric shapes such as circle or square
· Lasso selection – you can draw your own shape using different Lasso tools. Normal lasso allows you to draw any shape. Polygonal creating little points and connecting them. Magnetic one is similar to normal one but it creates many points which allow user be more accurate.
Magnetic lasso
Polygonal Lasso
Lasso
· Quick selection – it contains only 2 tools; magic wand which select similar pixels and quick selection which allows you to select chosen part of the picture. Size of quick selection depends on brush size and it will also select similar pixels around.
Quick Selection
Magic wand
History Brush - This tool allows you to back the picture to original state.
Little destroyed graphic Repaired graphic
Healing brush– it is similar to history brush but it just deleting scars and retouching images.
Before: After:
And everything is just using healing brush.
Healing tool also include some other useful functions such as red eyes tool and a patch tool which allows you to import one part of the picture from another place. Now I’ll remove this plum under the eye using the patch tool.
This looks much better now and almost can’t see difference between normal skin.
Clone stamp - this tool allows me to clone an eye and put it on forehead but it can be also used to delete logos or different marks. To take a sample of part of the picture in this case an eye, hold the alt key and right mouse click. Now you can move an eye to forehead.
When you click then you’ll put this eye onto forehead.
Photoshop isn’t only software this type on the market, there is a lot different products with similar functions to Photoshop e.g. CorelDRAW Graphics suite or Gimp
Corel
CorelDRAW is commercial software created by Corel for Windows OS. Minimum system requirements for CorelDRAW:
• Windows® 7 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), Windows
Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows® XP
(32-bit), all with latest service packs installed
• Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ 64 or AMD
Opteron™
• 1 GB of RAM
• 1 GB of hard disk space for installation without
Content (up to 6GB with extra content)
• 1024 × 768 or higher monitor resolution
(768 × 1024 on a Tablet PC)
• DVD drive for installation by disc
• Mouse or tablet
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
CorelDRAW is cheaper than Photoshop, CorelDRAW price is £478.79 and Photoshop’s is £667.20. Corel is also creating free tutorials and putting them on their website. They are also guarantee 30 days money back if you are not enjoyed using this software.
CorelDraw description:
“Whether you’re an aspiring artist or an experienced designer, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X6 is your trusted graphic design software solution. With its content-rich environment and professional graphic design, photo-editing and website design software, you have everything you need to express your style and creativity with endless possibilities. “
Features:
“New Features! Corel® CONNECT™ X6
Speed up your workflow with Corel CONNECT, a built-in content search tool that helps you find graphics, templates, fonts and images instantly on your computer.
· New! Multiple trays allow you to work with several trays concurrently; giving you increased flexibility for organizing assets for multiple projects. These time-saving trays will help you efficiently gather content – photos, graphics or bitmap icons – from various folders or online sources, and share them between CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Corel CONNECT.
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· New! Search capability allows you to extract images instantly from a client’s web site by simply typing a web address in the Search box. Corel CONNECT immediately gathers all the defined images with an HTML <img> tag from the website. Based on search terms or a folder path, Corel CONNECT can also scour your PC, network, or other online resources for content.”
Source: http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?storeKey=gb&pid=prod4260069&trkid=UKSEMGGLGR#tab3
http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?storeKey=gb&pid=prod4260069&trkid=UKSEMGGLGR#tab1b
Corel is also creating a lot of different software such as office suite, design, video editing and digital imaging.
Gimp
Gimp -General Image Manipulation Program was first release for a student project created by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis. They has putted GNU license for this and software has become open source. Today they are not developing this software but groups of users. Every user who knows something about programming can develop this software. They are doing everything for free and they are groups of volunteers who wants spend their own time to develop this software. They are doing great job for others users for who Photoshop or CorelDRAW are too expensive. People could say that Photoshop is the market leader, this is particularly true; Photoshop is leader of the commercial market if we include also Open Source software then gimp will be the leader. People are using Photoshop because their companies pay for it and they must use it, they can’t use Gimp because Gimp can’t be used for commercial things. Gimps doesn’t include only standard installation packet. Gimp has many patches which makes it more like Photoshop e.g. CMYK patch. Gimp is working with RGB but you can download CMYK patch. Next plus for gimp is that most Photoshop’s tutorials will work with it. Gimp also is created for all popular operating systems; you can use it on linux, mac and windows.
Gimp also needed less system resources than Photoshop or CorelDRAW e.g.
Hard Disk space: 20 MB
RAM: 128 MB
Gimp is very portable; you can install it on your pen-drive and take it away and you can open and edit Photoshop’s files.
Summary: Photoshop is commercial software used for commercial purpose.
Gimp: Open source software for non-commercial purpose i.e. home users, computer graphics artist and people starting their “adventure” with computer graphics.
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