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Subject:Re: PhotoShop and Corel Suite compatibility From:Max Wyss <prodok -at- PRODOK -dot- CH> Date:Wed, 6 May 1998 20:14:47 +0200
Cheryle,
It depends a lot on what you want to do with the graphics.
First, a correction: The GIF format is an indexed 8-bit graphic file
format. This file format does not support anything like layers or channels.
In the Photoshop world, the only file format supporting layers and channels
that I know of, is the native Photoshop format. A graphic consisting of
layers can be compared to a stack of overhead transparencies. Channels are
comparable to cutouts (but can do a lot more...).
If you produce a GIF in Photoshop, you "flatten the layers", which means
that you take the whole stack of transparencies and bring everything onto
one single sheet.
So, if the graphics make intelligent use of the layers, they may be very
easy to modify, if you have them with the layers, but can be extremely
tedious to change when flattened.
As I don't know how your graphic files look like, I can't say how much more
time you would spend fiddling around with them in another software than
Photoshop. It could be that for modifications taking you 5 minutes in
Photoshop, you would spend an hour in another software. Multiply that with
the number of graphics and with the internal hourly rate, and look at the
results.
Hope, this can help.
Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering AG
Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
Fax: +41 1 700 20 37
e-mail: mailto:prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch or 100012 -dot- 44 -at- compuserve -dot- com
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>Hi,
>
>I'm one of two writers in my company who has been tasked with developing
>our Intranet site. We have a lot of good information on the site, but
>our marketing-type bosses want it to be more "splashy" and
>"graphical."
>
>The other writer is using PhotoShop to create and modify images for
>his pages, and since he is the more experienced graphics person, we
>agreed that I would just use his graphics for my pages with slight
>modifications.
>
>He is using PhotoShop to create and modify his images -- all mostly
>.gifs with several "layers" in them. He works with both Mac and Windows
>95.
>
>I do not have PhotoShop on my system, but I do have the CorelDraw
>Graphics Suite (6.0). I am using Windows 95 only.
>
>QUESTION: Do I need to try to get my boss to approve a $600 PhotoShop
>purchase, or can I use Corel to manipulate the PhotoShop files? I
>played around with this a little bit and it didn't seem to work, but
>maybe I'm missing something.
>
>Your help is greatly appreciated!
>
>Cheryle Wiese
>cjwiese -at- hotmail -dot- com
>
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