Good program(s) for image postprocessing

Hendrake · Post by **Hendrake** » 2002-11-10 06:03am

DISCLAIMER: I'm not sure if the right forum is this one or OT. If I'm mistaken, please move it to the more appropriate.

Do any of you know of any freeware or low-cost program for image postprocessing? I'm trying to get something out of POV-Ray and I noticed a fair bit of post processing work is necessary.

So, any suggestions?

And thanks.

Enlightenment · Post by **Enlightenment** » 2002-11-10 12:40pm

Hendrake wrote:Do any of you know of any freeware or low-cost program for image postprocessing? I'm trying to get something out of POV-Ray and I noticed a fair bit of post processing work is necessary.

http://www.gimp.org

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2002-11-10 09:05pm

Paint Shop Pro is pretty good. It used to be about $40 when it was at version 5.0, but I think it's gone up to about $70 for version 7.

http://www.jasc.com

Hendrake · Post by **Hendrake** » 2002-11-11 05:51am

Thanks. :D

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2002-11-11 01:20pm

Hendrake wrote:Thanks.

No problem. I use GIMP when I'm running Linux, but normally I use PSP7.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2002-11-11 06:58pm

If you're rich, and have a Mac, Photoshop is ace. Really.

I used to use it at work, simple enough to use, but lots of power, and a whole horde of plugins available for everything you ever need.

Works better on a Mac though, they're optimised for Media Stuff.

Hendrake · Post by **Hendrake** » 2002-11-12 07:24am

Vendetta wrote:If you're rich, and have a Mac, Photoshop is ace. Really.

I used to use it at work, simple enough to use, but lots of power, and a whole horde of plugins available for everything you ever need.

Works better on a Mac though, they're optimised for Media Stuff.

Sadly, I'm a university student, and it means all the money I can gather goes into booze. :D

Anyway, thank you for the suggestion, but the price range is a bit too high for me...

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-12 09:00am

Vendetta wrote:If you're rich, and have a Mac, Photoshop is ace. Really.

Works just as well on a PC really, there might be something with that whole colorsync thing though, but I've never had that problem.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-12 03:44pm

If you want to be legal, it should be noted that gimp is available for Windows too.

Dark Primus · Post by **Dark Primus** » 2002-11-12 03:53pm

Well there are plenty of things you can download from Kazaa too.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2002-11-12 04:15pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:Works just as well on a PC really, there might be something with that whole colorsync thing though, but I've never had that problem.

Macs have slightly better memory optimisation than Windows (The x86 is an inherently hideous architecture, due to the backward comptibility with the oldest of the old in the range). They actually worked some optimisation for packages like Photoshop (and possibly PS in particular) into the architecture.

When they were harping on about how much faster the PowerPC chip was than an equivalent x86, they based all the benchmarking on performance in Photoshop.

Gimp is perfectly good though, if you don't have a few grand in your back pocket.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-12 04:33pm

Vendetta wrote:Macs have slightly better memory optimisation than Windows (The x86 is an inherently hideous architecture, due to the backward comptibility with the oldest of the old in the range). They actually worked some optimisation for packages like Photoshop (and possibly PS in particular) into the architecture.

When they were harping on about how much faster the PowerPC chip was than an equivalent x86, they based all the benchmarking on performance in Photoshop.

I've never heard of macs as having good memory management, their speed issues where not because of the processor as a whole but because of the altivec-chipset that came into play during usage of photo-shop filters.
Ofcourse today, not even that helps.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2002-11-13 02:03am

Dark Primus wrote:Well there are plenty of things you can download from Kazaa too.

Ugh. Half the "cracks" on Kazaa or Gnutella are virus-infected. I wouldn't touch Kazaa with a ten-foot pole when it comes to something like that.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-11-13 01:12pm

Crayz9000 wrote:
Dark Primus wrote:Well there are plenty of things you can download from Kazaa too.
Ugh. Half the "cracks" on Kazaa or Gnutella are virus-infected. I wouldn't touch Kazaa with a ten-foot pole when it comes to something like that.

Remember kids: Crime doesn't pay.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-19 08:07pm

*bump* for Captain Cyran.

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