Seems like only yesterday these two giants were battling it out on my hard drive for a place in my heart!! Now, after working in both and getting used to the certain highs and lows that both have to offer, I find myself romancing two great ladies instead of one, hehehe. (Mind you, to you females of the forum, I am sure you have recieved the "male" version of these programs so not to worry, hehehe), a joke people,......a joke. Anyways, getting back on topic, I find that there are some things about both I do like, but on average I do tend to sway much more towards Adobe Photoshop than Corel Photopaint. Anyone else here use both?? ~3D ;-)

Well, in my case Corel Photopaint is the reason I use Adobe Photoshop. When it came down to serious photo enhancement for presentation work back about four years ago, Photopaint just wouldn't cut it. I bit the bullet and jumped on the Photoshop learning curve and never looked back Just my opinion, of course. Gromit Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

A little more explanation: I was compositing scanned aerial photographs and enhancing them. No one here had ever done that. To be able to composite the photos, I had to make the colors match, and the easiest way to do that was to dodge and burn on the RGB color separations individually. Photopaint wouldn't let me do that, Photoshop did it in a walk. I also needed precise geometric control at the pixel level, and Photoshop was a clear winner in that area. There wasn't any art to that, strictly technical imaging. Gromit

......but you just can't beat that awsome cloning tool that comes with Corel Photopaint! It's a winner with that one.;-)

They must have added that since I used it. I have to wonder what it can do that the cloning tool in Photoshop can't though. I use it a LOT and you can get an awful lot of different effects and such by varying the opacity, brushes, image sources, aligned/non-aligned, etc. What does the cloning tool in Photopaint do that is different/better? Gromit

I am referring to Corel 8, which is what I use, I don't figure much has changed for the worse in version 9?? I find that the "cloning tool" is much more user friendly and versatile in Corel Photopaint which is rather dissapointing to me. I would much rather do without having another big fat Paint program taking up room on my hardrive just for this reason. I could use that space for more Poser files, geez, they are big eh?? ~3D ;-)