PW Pro is excellent software from Jonathan Sachs (creator of Lotus
1-2-3) who cares very much about quality. PW Pro was my first photo
editor and I used it regularly for a couple of years before being
trained to use PhotoShop. I consider PhotoShop masking with layers to
be superior to PW Pro's masking without layers but it certainly does do
masking. Even so I still continued to use PW Pro for extensive cloning
work since I considered the PW Pro cloning tool much better than
PhotoShop. If you're not deeply into layers and masking then you might
very will find PW Pro superior to PhotoShop or certainly at least as
good. What I cannot comment on is PW Pro's raw file conversion. I
never used it in the past since I shot only JPEG in those days. That
could be critical to me since I now depend so heavily on ACR.
I haven't upgraded my own copy of PW Pro since version 4.0. It's now at
version 7.0 so must have a lot of new function I've never seen. I see
that I can still upgrade from PW Pro 4.0 for about $46.
Either one of us can download the latest version and give it a try for
free for 30 days. I think I may do just that to check it out and maybe
you should do the same. Ken will no doubt be along shortly to tell you
it's the cat's meow. You can download it here.
<http://dl-c.com/content/view/47/74/>
Norman Koren has always been a big supporter of PW Pro and he has an
intro here. <http://www.normankoren.com/PWP_intro.html> But be aware
that the intro goes all the way back to version 3.0 and I don't know how
relevant it is to 7.0.
While supposedly easier to use than PhotoShop the PW Pro user's manual
is still 538 pages long (which doesn't include special documentation
files available for in-depth tutorials on some subjects)
I also own a fairly recent copy of Corel's Paint Shop Pro (version X6).
It does 64 bit processing and also does layers. But I haven't spent
any time with it to evaluate it.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/12/2014 12:50 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
After several weeks of problems with Adobe PhotoShop Elements 12, with
no solution in sight and no interest on the part of Adobe, I am
examining other options. The cloud is of no interest to me, nor is
cataloging. I am currently checking out Picture Window Pro 7.0. Any
comments on this and other options that may be available?
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