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dude.......this is wild...i can't trust my eyes anymore!!

hmmph...another good reason to use corel. I got two disticntly different rgb values for it. ( not much difference but two clearly different values. ) ~g~ the second time through the first time they were identicle.

Both Corel Photo-Paint and Adobe Photoshop show an RGB value of 107,107,107. The other light square (with no shadow) shows a value of 200,200,200.

Photo-Paint does have some nice qualities that Photoshop is lacking but then Photoshop has some that Photo-Paint are lacking. If you want to compare support then Adobe wins hands down. Corel's support is little to non-existant. It's really too bad. Corel could have been the standard if they didn't put everything in one package then sit on their hands and do nothing. I'm still quite pissed off at Corel. I paid (in full by credit card) for the Corel Magazine a couple/few years ago. Never received one copy of my year's subscription. E-mailed many times. Got response saying 6-8 weeks then they said another month delay. After that it never came and they stopped e-mailing me.

yeah, my only real complaint about ps is the interface, I hate the roll-up boxes that jump open when you are working near them, then won't stay out of your way when you move them. corel's docking control boxes work better for me. hmm, I've never had any problems with corel's support. and, until adobe ported from mac, corel was the standard for pc. ~g~

Um...
What am I missing?
They aren't supposed to look the same shade?
They look the same shade to me.

Visually A and B look like they are the same color?

You all have good eyes, if you mean the boxes the letters are in look like the same shade. Forget the letters, they are meaningless. They don't look the same to me, but I checked and they are indeed the same.

Yeah, seriously. They look obviously to be the same value.

But I do draw in pencil a lot so maybe my eyes are trained to see things for their actual value? I dunno. I can't remember before I could draw, so I don't remember how different things looked. I do recall at one point in my lifem ages ago now, when I learned to 'see' negative space, and how different that seemed. Now when I look at an image I do actually have to adjust to see the picture for what it is a representation of, not just a picture, if that makes sense. I see the shapes that represent the picture before I see the picture. I kind of live in drawing-mode now, and have for years. It does help my programming though.

I do know that when I get on a kick for a certain style, I start seeing things in the style. For instance, when I did a bout of ink stippling, I as seeing thigns in stippling. Not really, but like an almost-hallucination on the edge of my vision, like a really strong imagine-ation. Whatever the word is. When I started 3-D modelling it was really strange and made me a bit dizzy because I was imagining things from multiple sides and stuff.