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In article <1992Dec13.205727.20660@fcom.cc.utah.edu> yf5990@u.cc.utah.edu (Yan Fang/Humanities) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.212746.1895@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
>>In article <1992Dec10.141950.9223@chromagrafx.com> msb@chromagrafx.com writes:
>>>after they buy Image.  When I saw it at Seybold they had most of the features
>>>of Photoshop but were greatly lacking in speed and it seemed that it crawled
>>>when making changes to the image.  
>>
>>The new beta of Image is significantly faster than the previous ones.
>
>The new beta of Image is fast and highly Photoshop competitive, feature
>for feature as well as performance-wise. When Image hits the streets this
>thread may never again surface--it's really that good. Just don't try to
>edit CMYK images on a 16MB color slab--RGBA screams, however.

I still wouldn't call it "fast"........  It is faster, though.  But
for CMYK images editing, yes, it's slower since it must separate the
RGB values as you put them into the image.  However, it only does half
the job by not doing any sort of CMYK display emulation.  Instead of
doing a back-transform to get viewable RGB values for display it just
fires the CMYK values to the window-server which does a piss-poor job
of CMYK display.  Also, it's RGB->CMYK seperation is a bit on the
cheezy side.  When you select an RGB color with the color panel and
put that into a CMYK image, it generates a CMYK combination that is
visually the same on screen as the RGB you picked in the panel.  This
would be great if it were doing CMYK display emulation, but it's not,
so that color is going to come out totally wrong (especially compared
to the rest of the image) when you go to press.  It also couldn't open
most of my CMYK image files...


andrew
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