Yikes....it has a picture brush tool (which PSP has and PS doesn't) and you can import PSP picture tubes with it too...
You can import .psd files into it. It's not bad. It remembers PS layer styles (in that it converts them but as part of the image and not an editable layer style) and will imoport all the layers separately but not the scaling of pattern fills though.
Last edited by ravells; 06-21-2009 at 03:13 PM.
That filter layer looks pretty handy as well as the tube.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps
Proof of the pudding though. I'm just making shortcuts to the Alienskin filters and then let's see what it can do.
Hmm works only for the native filters....but still pretty cool. I use noise a lot in my maps, and this way I can adjust the noise settings at any time.
Last edited by ravells; 06-21-2009 at 03:46 PM.
Yuck...it doesn't save EXIF data on a jpeg save...quickly falling out of love ... one or two other niggles as well.
Ah that's interesting. I've got CS2 just tried applying a filter to a smart object and a message popped up saying if the filter was applied the smart object would lose its smart object status and turn into a normal raster layer.
One big downside for photoplus is that it doesn't have a decent cloud filter which is hugely important for mapping in a realistic style. It's got something called 'plasma' but it's quite pixelly and nowhere near as good as the PS cloud filter. So you'd have to get a third party cloud filter (like Xenoflex) which means more £££. Shame it was going so well!
Make sure all this info gets back to them. A lot of the problem with developing an app is that people use apps differently to the person who is programming it. They might not be into maps the way we are and don't see much need to generate lots and lots of clouds.
I've been feeding back the downsides on the photography parts, but I'll definitely tell them about the cloud filter. Thanks Redrobes!
Thanks for all the reviewing. This is really good to know.
Slightly OT, but where does CS4 retail for 360 GBP? Is that the upgrade? Because the German version on Amazon sells for over 1100 EUR - that's not the extended version. Student edition comes at 190, but I'm not eligible.Originally Posted by ravells
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