Actually Photoshop is only $600.

In the US..... but not in Europe.

somebody see if gimp or psp can import textured, uv-mapped obj files. if not, there's no competition. FAIK, e-f gets a commission for every cs3e sale referred from their site. 

As if photoshop has been able to do that for ages.... that's a very recent addition ,besides, I could care less if a photoshop kind of application can do that or not, that's not what I need and expect from such a program at all. It would be the last feature to get me spending $1049 (english download version) or $1346 (boxed dutch version) on. I can get a photoshop like application for much much less with all the features of photoshop, expect the obj file import, but I'm sure that will change in the near future. Am I really going to pay between $600 and $1000 (if I want a boxed version) more just to be able to import  import textured, uv-mapped obj files? I don't think so.

By the way, does MangaStudio EX count? It can imported  import textured, uv-mapped 3D files in a lot of formats. MangaStudio has been able to do this a while now and I'm sure that others will catch on if there is a need for this kind of technology, but I do have my serious doubt there really is, I hate to think what would happen if you try to open complete 3D scenes in a photoshop like application. To me being able to import  import textured, uv-mapped obj files is just a gimmick with no use, one of those shiny features that sounds cool but has way to many limitations to even be used seriously.

But I wouldn't even consider buying Photoshop, no matter what features it offers. I'm not going to pay $400 more then someone else, just because I do live somewhere else then they do. Also Adobe is one of the companies that charges tax when no tax is due at all, in Europe download version are tax-exempt, yet Adobe persistantly charges 21% tax on a download version on the European versions, putting the money in their own pockets.

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Food for thought.....
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