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I have a brochure on Retouche, and saw it at Seybold, but that's the  
extent of my knowledge of this product. Does anyone know if it is  
currently in production, or is it still beta? Is anyone using it right  
now? 

I'm trying to understand how the features and capabilities of Image,  
Retouche, PixelMaster, Compose In Color, PhotoStylist, etc. will  
compare and to what extent they overlap. I haven't gotten involved with  
image editing tools on the Mac or PC, so I don't have any baseline to  
use in judging what these apps do and how well they do it.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has had the opportunity to do an  
evaluation of some of these apps, and learn what features are critical  
vs. nice-to-have, etc. Disregarding the cost of the packages, which one  
would you want if you could only buy one, and why would you choose it  
over the others?

Until now, there really hasn't been much choice other than using Icon,  
so I don't think I have a good picture of what real commercial image  
editing apps should be able to do, and how much they should cost.

If anyone has any thoughts on this, I'm sure that a lot of people would  
like to see them posted.

John Bartley
john@wpa.com