Does Painter separate colors into CYMK. Photoshop will do it - just wandered if painter would too. Kimberly krbtv@home.com

When you "save as" TIFF there is an option for RGB or CYMK.

Is Photoshop better to use than the version of Painter that comes with Poser?

Painter is a great program but for 4-color process work you can't beat Photoshop. Painter 6 can open psd 4-C tiffs but not if it's seperated into chanels. Painter will save to 4-C process but the output preview isn't too, you can't be sure of your final color. Greens in particular are problomatic. In Photoshop you have much finer control over ink gain, undercolor removeal and gray componant replacement, Painter has none of these.

Is Photoshop LE okay. I'm getting a new printer - one of the printers comes with PhotoShop LE. You write "Painter will save to 4-C process but the output preview isn't too". Thanks for telling me. I want to know exactly what is going to print.

Ment to say that the on-screen color preview isn't too good in painter. It boils down to your printer, colors that it prints with (4 or 6) and the color profiles you have set up. If you can, you may want to set up the icc profiles for your printer, either through ColorSynce or Kodac CMM. Kodak's site should have a link to profiles to your printer or it may have come with your software. In either case, each desktop style printer is different & it takes a littlr experimentation to know how your image will turn out.