New Photoshop competitor

[Tony West]

ahhh, that looks pretty awesome.

Could this have factored into Apple’s decision to step away from Aperture?

[Oliver Peters]

[tony west] “Could this have factored into Apple’s decision to step away from Aperture?”

Apple doesn’t really make development decisions based on other companies. Especially not an unknown entity. So I would highly doubt that. This is a competitor to Photoshop and not to either Aperture or Lightroom. Different tools and different functions. This does a lot of the same thing that Pixelmator does, except that it supports more than 8-bit images.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] “This is a competitor to Photoshop and not to either Aperture “

I always thought Aperture and Photoshop were competitors.

[Mitch Ives]

Looks great… thanks for sharing. PS and AI are one area that keeps people using CC. Maybe now they’ll have the opportunity to pass…

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.

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[Francois Jean]

This seems to be a promising photo editor for now I am using “Pixelmator” but this other choice is welcome. As far as an “Aperture” replacement software, this could to be a good prospect:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aftershot-pro-2/id917998614?mt=12

[Oliver Peters]

[tony west] “I always thought Aperture and Photoshop were competitors.”

Not at all. Completely different tools to address different functions. Aperture/Lightroom and Photoshop are quite complementary to each other. You can “open” a clone of an image into Photoshop from either Aperture or Lightroom for deeper editing, painting, etc.

Aperture and Lightroom are photo processing, editing and organizing tools. Photoshop is a deeper photo editing tool, but also a serious design tool, which is something the other two apps can’t touch and don’t facilitate. Photoshop also has no library functions. For example, you can’t design a logo in Aperture and you can’t sort through 1,000 of photos in a library using Photoshop. Much of the database style of FCP X seems to have been derived from Aperture.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] “Completely different tools to address different functions.”

I guess they wouldn’t be in my case. I only use Photoshop to fix photos. That’s what I would have used Aperture for, but a photographer friend of mine told me I didn’t really need Aperture if I already had Photoshop.

Designing Logos is moot to my work. The clients provide their logos. I guess that somebody else made in Photoshop. I have no interest in that end.

[Douglas K. dempsey]

You don’t just use Photoshop for logo design. An example is making any kind of alpha-channel image that can be superimposed over video channels. In documentary we use Photoshop or sometimes it’s low-rent cousin Pixelmator for the layered still photo effect — sometimes referred to as “The Kid Stays in the Picture” effect, because that docu bio of Producer Robert Evans used the effect extensively.

We open high-res photo files in Photoshop, “extract” a particular foreground, middle-ground or background person or object, carefully finish the edges to look natural, and use tools like the “Clone Tool” to paint in the hole that is left by extracting an object.

All the separate layers are then imported directly into FCP from Photoshop, and result in alpha-channel objects that can be layered and panned or zoomed at varying speeds, giving the 3D layered effect.

You can also import those Photoshop layers into Motion, and use the 3D camera tools there to create more sophisticated versions of the effect — like key-framing various focus and lens effects to occur as your “camera” moves over and through the layers.

Doug D

[Tony West]

[Douglas K. Dempsey] “You don’t just use Photoshop for logo design.”

of course. I wasn’t saying that because I don’t use it for logos myself, that I don’t use it for other things.

[Douglas K. Dempsey] “In documentary we use Photoshop or sometimes it’s low-rent cousin Pixelmator for the layered still photo effect — sometimes referred to as “The Kid Stays in the Picture” effect, because that docu bio of Producer Robert Evans used the effect extensively.”

Yes, I’m doing the same exact thing in the doc that I’m cutting now.

I have all these historic pics that it helps to use this technique with. That’s really the main reason I’m looking at this new app. I want to see if I can do this more effectively with it than Photoshop.

I love that film BTW

[Douglas K. dempsey]

Excellent, Tony! Let me know what you learn as I will be interested, too.

Doug D