On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 14:50:19 -0500, Timothy R. Cook wrote:
> Ron Parker wrote:
>> That's a pretty provincial attitude.  I can't see it being a useful
>> attitude for anything but the IRTC or the digital photo contest or
>> something like that.
> 
> Useful?  Huh?  *blinks in confusion*

The idea that any one program should be good enough to make an image is
pretty provincial.  It's only a useful restriction to hold yourself to 
if your goal is to illustrate your skill with that one program, as with
the IRTC or some other contests that restrict or disallow the use of post.
Otherwise, it might get in the way of what you're trying to express.

So, for example, if I want to make an image for whatever purpose, I will
freely use whatever features of POV, netpbm, Photoshop, and Illustrator 
are best for the job, and I'll often use all four on the same image (yes,
believe it or not, there are things that netpbm does better than Photoshop.
Batch processing and compositing such as that used to make my big O'Hare 
image are among them.) 

In any case, the "one image one program" philosophy falls down in the face
of using Poser to create scenes for POV anyway.

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