Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Alternatives (was Photoshop hardware requirements?)
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:07:38 -0800

sometime around 12/15/99 4:14 AM, Greg Locke at locke@straylight.ca was
heard  to write:

> Micrografx Picture Publisher 4:  Old WIN program I still use. Works great
> for those with old processors or not a lot of ram. I ran it
> "professionally" on an IBM 486/25 w 8megs of ram for a number of years.
> Every bit as good as Photoshop.

I've used it, and compared it to Photoshop. No competition. Photoshop is
much easier to use. Filters much better. More featuers. But it did have some
very nice features. David Brooks (former Peterson's Editor) prefers it.
Maybe I'm just used to Photoshop. But it's old news now.

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Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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