I haven't used PWPro in quite a while but I believe I'll upgrade as well
since the cost is so low. It does do some things better than PhotoShop
and Ctein uses both when doing restoration work depending on what he's
doing. But it would be very hard to abandon PhotoShop at this point.
I'm too thoroughly wedded to layers at this point.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/19/2011 10:30 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
> DL-C has released PWP 6.0. I haven't personally upgaded YET, but will
> over the next couple of weeks.
>
> Taking a cue from Adobe on upgrade pricing.. The upgrade price for 5.x
> users is a whopping USD $44.95. Of course, if you don't already have
> it, the full version is $89.95.
>
> OK, scratch the Adobe reference. You'd have to slide the decimal point
> over one digit to the right.
>
> PWP isn't for everybody. If you are married to the layers approach to
> life, you'll find the program rather disagreeable. But for those who
> work more linearily and value time, this program is simply terrific.
> It is extremely fast and doesn't pork out the RAM of your computer. In
> fact, 6.0 is either 64-bit or 32-bit. Oh, and it takes advantage of
> multi-core processsors. No complaints here with the old version,
> that's for sure. Also, for those who suffer from the Adobe 8-bit
> curse, the imaging engine is entirely 16-bit.
>
> As an Olympus user, you know that I'm a fan of the underdog. Well,
> DL-C/PWP is definitely an underdog, but for those of us who have
> adapted our editing lifestyles to the this chosen editor "religion",
> we are usually true believers.
>
> AG
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