On Wednesday 03 October 2007 04:35:36 David Southwell wrote: > IMHO photoshop is NOT a tool designed for the "average user".
"Average" can mean "typical" & it can mean numbers (as in mean/mode/median), either way, PS fits the bill. So if you want to struggle with an "average" creativity ceiling & suffer "average" problems, you would choose CS. A lot of people (can't offer you numbers on this one, have to settle for "many") regard "average" as the only reasonable alternative to "failure." They won't necessarily _say_ this when discussing it, but that's how it operates in Real Life. The essence of this approach is that it makes them allergic to true success & to attributes like innovation. When "marketing" to these users (or their bosses) I suspect you'd have to figure out what they're hedging against in specifying PS, then show how GIMP clearly offers them better results _in_their_terms_. This is doubly hard because opening discussion on the very topic which subtly terrifies them simply raises internal horror & shuts down communication. So you have to be subtle about it, & probably approach it under the guise of "the fabulous new gadget I found which seems to solve X, Y & Z" rather than "this PS replacement that we're going to bet the boat on." Cheers; Leon _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
