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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> While it *is* truly amazing - to the point of being frightening - the
> thing I can't figure out is how a normal human manages to get near a
> copy of Photoshop in the first place. Last time I checked, it's
> jaw-droppingly expensive...
Well, there are cheap student versions, and not everybody is as honest
as you are...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> jaw-droppingly expensive...
$69 is jaw-droppingly expensive?
Even $600 for the full pacakge isn't jaw-droppingly expensive.
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On Mon, 03 May 2010 19:16:01 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> the
> thing I can't figure out is how a normal human manages to get near a
> copy of Photoshop in the first place.
£361.58 on buy.com.
Not really jaw-droppingly expensive; Windows Server 2008 by comparison is
£631.22 on buy.com for a 5-user CAL. People manage to get near that
quite readily, including many people studying for their MCSE at home.
Jim
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> > jaw-droppingly expensive...
>
> $69 is jaw-droppingly expensive?
that's one sexy price tag. :)
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Warp wrote:
> Well, there are cheap student versions
Oh yeah - I hadn't thought of that...
> and not everybody is as honest as you are...
Yeah, apparently. That's slightly unsettling, actually.
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>> the
>> thing I can't figure out is how a normal human manages to get near a
>> copy of Photoshop in the first place.
>
> £361.58 on buy.com.
I thought it was a lot more than that. Hmm, maybe I'm thinking of the
whole "creative suite" rather than just Photoshop.
Even so, this would still make it considerably more expensive than any
piece of software I've ever purchased in my life. (Although, when you
think about it, most *computers* cost more than this...)
> Windows Server 2008 by comparison is £631.22 on buy.com for a 5-user CAL.
Fortunately, unless you run a server, you don't need this product. (In
other words, your employer is going to pay for it, not you.)
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> jaw-droppingly expensive...
>
> $69 is jaw-droppingly expensive?
That's only for the cut-down version with all the features removed.
(Even *I* own that...) Presumably the futuristic stuff Mike is talking
about isn't in that version.
> Even $600 for the full pacakge isn't jaw-droppingly expensive.
Usually if a piece of software costs more than about £70, I don't buy it
- unless it does something really, *really* good. I just don't have that
kind of money laying around.
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On Mon, 03 May 2010 22:24:03 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> the
>>> thing I can't figure out is how a normal human manages to get near a
>>> copy of Photoshop in the first place.
>>
>> £361.58 on buy.com.
>
> I thought it was a lot more than that. Hmm, maybe I'm thinking of the
> whole "creative suite" rather than just Photoshop.
That was the pricing on Creative Suite 4. Photoshop on its own is less
expensive - I figured you were thinking of the most expensive option, so
that's what I looked for (the most expensive version of Photoshop I could
find).
How much did you think it was?
> Even so, this would still make it considerably more expensive than any
> piece of software I've ever purchased in my life. (Although, when you
> think about it, most *computers* cost more than this...)
That they do, and they frequently come bundled with software. You can
get Photoshop Elements for fairly cheap - it even came bundled with my
Wacom tablet.
>> Windows Server 2008 by comparison is £631.22 on buy.com for a 5-user
>> CAL.
>
> Fortunately, unless you run a server, you don't need this product. (In
> other words, your employer is going to pay for it, not you.)
That's frequently the case for users of Adobe Photoshop as well -
especially CS: The people who tend to use it are the pros, not the
hobbiest user.
Jim
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> That's only for the cut-down version with all the features removed.
> (Even *I* own that...)
Is it good for anything more than touching up photos? Can you draw things
with it? Can you do things easily like take four square photos and make a
bigger square out of them, or cut a photo exactly in half?
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On 5/3/2010 12:12 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> jaw-droppingly expensive...
>
> $69 is jaw-droppingly expensive?
>
> Even $600 for the full pacakge isn't jaw-droppingly expensive.
>
It is when you can buy PaintShop Pro and get 95% of the same features.
In fact, until it got bought up by Corel, it was far more comparable,
with very few things missing at all. Then they decided to make it the
"cheaper" sister product of their main application, which is another of
those damn $600 things...
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