What graphics software title do you use for your images at church?

[Sysmom]

I'm curious (my curiosity has an ulterior motive, but I'm gonna write Tim first about that...) which graphics programs you use to prepare your church graphics.

If I do this right, there will be a poll with thread this time.

deb

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

I am curious as to your ulterior motive

[Sysmom]

There, this is the correct topic and I managed to get the poll up.

I apologize in advance for everything I don't know about Mac software. Every Mac graphic artist I know uses Photoshop.

I use Photoshop CS2 -we'll get CS3 next year, hopefully during the first quarter.

Although there are things I use Paint Shop Pro for, and Digital Image Pro, but for 90% of the rest, I use PSCS2.

deb

[Sysmom]

Phil ... I promise it isn't commercial, profane, occultish or, hey, even cultish.

But let me write Tim first.

deb

[kbob]

Right now, back on Photoshop 7...from PSE 3. I'd love to upgrade, but love my Photoshop regardless. Nothing else really has that kind of control, or the incredible availability of add ons, both free and paid. Same goes for the amount of tutorials and availability of help and support from others.

Don't get me wrong-I started out on PhotoPaint, and also used Paint Shop Pro quite a bit back in the day-but kept coming back to Photoshop.

[Don C.]

You forgot Corel Graphics Suite (Photo-paint, Draw, Rave, trace and etc.) which is what I use. Pretty cross compatible with any of the the Adobe stuff.
So I guess I will be in the other catagory

I added a poll write-in option.

[voyager529]

Whether Photoshop is industry standard because it's the best or it's industry standard because it's industry standard, it is what it is. My church has a copy, and it's been wonderful to use.

I have a copy of PSP, and I must say it's very capable - just not Photoshop. There are some nifty features on it that justify its installation on my laptop, but I simply don't use it as much as I'd like (I barely have enough time to get stuff out the door; being able to dabble is a luxury I don't have).

At Staples where I work, I find it to be the most annoying thing that in the Copy Center they use Ulead PhotoImpact instead of Photoshop (Elements). I can understand not having a $700 copy of Photoshop in every copy center across 1,700 stores, but at least Elements. I'm sure that they got a sweet deal in licensing Photoimpact, but being as every task I've ever been asked to do in PI took me twice as long to figure out how to do as opposed to if I had done it in Photoshop, I'm wondering if they actually factored in the possibility that copy center employees (and a few Business Machines people) already know Photoshop walking in, so from where I stand lost productivity in having two people stand there fumbling around for 5 minutes trying to figure something out * 363 days a year * 1700 stores...something tells me that if they paid a price greater than free, they spent more in lost hours than if every store took a copy of Photoshop Elements off the shelf and loaded it into the Copy Center PC...It's Late...when I'm tired I rant...

Joey

[Sysmom]

I forgot Painter, too ... although that's one piece of software I keep putting off learning.

Thank you for the write in fix. I'm lucky to have even gotten the poll up.

Can't wait til the Mac guys see it and shake their head over no choices. Alas!

deb

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

Originally Posted by Sysmom

Can't wait til the Mac guys see it and shake their head over no choices. Alas!

Don't worry deb, all I use on my Macs is Photoshop

[[Director] Joseph B]

My main program is Photoshop CS - I was very big on CorelDraw years ago. Someone gave me a "copy" of PS7 to try out and I loved it (as Corel didn't do layers at that time) so I bought CS (didn't want to keep the illegal copy on my system so it was buy it or give it up).
In addition to CS I also use Picasa.
My son-in-law is the Corel King - he can pretty much do anything in Corel I do in photoshop.
The main advantage I see to PS is that so many other people are using it too.

[ncmacasl]

I most often use a great web-based program with a great collection of ready-made pics and videos that need little, if any, editing:

CMN's MXC!!!!

If I need to tweak anything, I use PowerPoint's drawing tools, Paint, or Picasa. Then I run it all in MediaShout.

(I logged my vote as Paint since it is quick and easy and I use it most often.