Reasons why I hate Photoshop:
Jan. 9th, 2006 04:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolari1a) To fill a color in a black bordered region with Paint Shop Pro: Click in the region you want filled.
1b) To fill a color in a black bordered region with Photoshop: Select the region you want filled. Click Color Select Tool. Deselect all black areas. Go to Quick Mask Mode. Fill in all the areas you don't want colored. Go back to normal mode. Click the region you want filled.
2a) To replace WHITE with BLUE in Paint Shop Pro: choose Blue as your foreground color, White as your background color, and use the Color Replacer brush to paint over all the areas you want changed.
2b) To replace WHITE with BLUE in Photoshop: DO NOT CHOOSE THE TOOL MARKED "COLOR REPLACER." DO NOT CHOOSE THE ADJUSTER MARKED "COLOR REPLACER." Select the area you want replaced. Use the Select Color Tool to select just white within that area. Make a new layer. Flood fill one spot, which will fill all the spots. Merge the layer back.
3) The Magic Wand, The Dodge Tool and Magnifying Glass use nearly the same icon, and often I end up using one for the other
I guess I was just stupid to start using Paint Shop Pro over GIMP or Photoshop, but they're needlessly complex, and counter-intuitive. And it fails for me on so many levels that I'm so close to giving up on it (it's taken me three hours to get almost no work done on the comics).
It prolly doesn't help that I've been using PSP for 10 years, but after seeing what I need to do to get what I think are simple tasks done in PShop, I'm beginning to see why I stuck with it.
1b) To fill a color in a black bordered region with Photoshop: Select the region you want filled. Click Color Select Tool. Deselect all black areas. Go to Quick Mask Mode. Fill in all the areas you don't want colored. Go back to normal mode. Click the region you want filled.
2a) To replace WHITE with BLUE in Paint Shop Pro: choose Blue as your foreground color, White as your background color, and use the Color Replacer brush to paint over all the areas you want changed.
2b) To replace WHITE with BLUE in Photoshop: DO NOT CHOOSE THE TOOL MARKED "COLOR REPLACER." DO NOT CHOOSE THE ADJUSTER MARKED "COLOR REPLACER." Select the area you want replaced. Use the Select Color Tool to select just white within that area. Make a new layer. Flood fill one spot, which will fill all the spots. Merge the layer back.
3) The Magic Wand, The Dodge Tool and Magnifying Glass use nearly the same icon, and often I end up using one for the other
I guess I was just stupid to start using Paint Shop Pro over GIMP or Photoshop, but they're needlessly complex, and counter-intuitive. And it fails for me on so many levels that I'm so close to giving up on it (it's taken me three hours to get almost no work done on the comics).
It prolly doesn't help that I've been using PSP for 10 years, but after seeing what I need to do to get what I think are simple tasks done in PShop, I'm beginning to see why I stuck with it.
