[RKDinOKC]

Yep, i started using photoshop before it was called photoshop or photostyler, think it was called digital darkroom and only worked in B/W. Look and interface has not really changed much since.

Did some color posters I took to Glen to have printed on the mylar poster stuff. The images were 100 dip, but were 36 x 48 and it took several hours to add a 1/2 inch margin and fill it that margin with black on the biggest fastest computer you could buy at the time and Macintosh IIfx. That was back when the fastest pc was a 486. No such thing as even Pentium or multiple cores. And I remember driving to Dallas to pick up 2-1 meg memory sticks for $700 each and was happy to do it because the going price was $1400 per meg.

The Adobe subscription thing is really cheap compared to buying and updating the software every couple of years. Especialliy if you use more than just photoshop or indesign, or illustrator.

The really great vector graphics program was Freehand. It was much easier to use and faster than illustrator. Especially when monkeying with spot colors. All the drawing was bezier curves like the Paths in photoslop.

Think the hot tool for editing lots of photos is either elements or bridge because you can batch edit and large number at the same time if they need the same filter applied.

I recently downloaded a plug-in from Kodak that does a wonderful one click color restoration of old faded color slides after scanning them in. Out of 500 slides I've done recently only a couple were so faded the plugin couldn't help them much.

I've been doing computer graphics **** way too long.