Well...it's not an elitest thing at all...its about raw power. And about a long-time industry standard, designed by color professionals for a specific industry. It's about stability across a wide platform.

Color correction and press work is a VERY specific science. When you have a $50,000 job on the press, you DO NOT want something to screw up because your program was not designed to handle it. Or because your printer is unfamiliar with it. That's what Photoshop is designed for, which is why the industry swears by it. The main issue here is the quality of color management and calibration across the industy.

I couldn't hire anyone with ONLY PSP experience, because I would have to re-train them number one, AND I wouldn't have the software as a standard in my shop, number two.

I've never tried opening a huge file in PSP, but some of my latest work is going at the rate of 425 MB for a single 2 page spread. Photoshop CS doesn't even blink. It does slow down a bit if my HD is full, though. And Caly is right, Adobe products are designed as a suite, to work seamlessly with each other and speed up workflow. If I had to use PSP and Word to do my work, I'd have quit long ago, simply because they don't have the proper horsepower/design for what I do. Jasc has some neat features....it can do a lot of cute things Photoshop doesn't do automatically, but for professional work, one wants the total control and DOESN'T want the program thinking FOR you.

I mean no offense here, but I've been doing this work for 20 years now. If something works...it works. It's not as simlpe as the hairs in a brush. It's entire algorithms that manage your color space and determine how ink goes on paper at quite high prices for press runs. Photoshop masters in color correction and manipulation are paid upwards of $100 an hour...

For the price, yes..PSP is outstanding, for what it does. For rock solid performance...my vote still goes to Photoshop..

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