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From: thaler@shorty.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler)
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Subject: Re: PhotoShop for WIndows
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Date: 25 Jun 91 05:12:10 GMT
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In article <160255.24418@timbuk.cray.com> dre@sequoia.cray.com (Dennis Ellis) writes:
>In article <1991Jun24.162051.6860@serval.net.wsu.edu> ckinsman@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun21.212534.6319@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
>>>Can anyone shed any light on a rumour I heard about a WIndows
>>>version of Adobe Photoshop? This would be great.
>>>
>  It's not Adobe PhotoShop per se. It's a clone by a company called U-something
>and is called PhotoStyler. It runs under windows and is supposed to provide
>many (all??) the features of PhotoShop. I THINK I read somewhere that Aldus (?)
>had acquired marketing rights.
>
>  I'm not so sure what 24-bit has to do with it. PhotoShop runs (and looks)
>great on a Mac with an 8-bit card.
> IMHO (of course).
>
>
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>* Dennis Ellis (dre@sequoia.cray.com) *                                       *
>* Cray Research, Inc.                 *                                       *
>* Eagan, MN 55121                     * All the normal stuff about opinions.. *



I recently received a copy of PhotoStyler with my Microtec 300Z scanner.
The software works very nicely AS FAR AS I CAN TELL WITHOUT A MANUAL.
Yes, they shipped it without the manual. When you register the software,
they say they will send you the manual, but I have had the scanner for a
while and still have no manual so...

At any rate, reviews in Publish magazine and other places compare it
favorably to Photoshop. I don't have access to Photoshop to compare, but
Photostyler runs very nice on my 486/33 (8 meg ram, 330meg ESDI) and the
color editing is very nice. I am using a Tseng 4000 (STB ERGO) card and
have read that if I install the Sierra DAC, I can get 16bit color which
goes a long way towards the 24bit color "required" by photoshop. I have
been informed that CorelDraw and Photostyler both support 24bit color.

I will make efforts this week to get the new DAC and will report back in
a couple weeks if I have succeeded in 16bit color editing...


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