COREL - You're blowing it with the Mac Users
bujones
With every new release Adobe's Photoshop is moving farther and farther away
from the needs of professional digital artists and closer to what they seem
to think is their core-audience - Photo Manipulators and Webauthors.
Considering this new trend Corel has a true opportunity to mold PAINTER into
THE leading tool used by digital artists across the board. However, with
the truly atrocious performance that this program shows in the MacIntosh
environment (I've tested 6.0 on a G3 250MHz/256MB and the lag is
UNBELIEVABLE), I can't see you succeeding in this market. I truly feel that
you are dropping the ball on this point and missing a gigantic opportunity
to establish yourselves as the market leaders. Adobe has become bloated,
and they are too slow to realize it. However, using digital means vs. real
paint requires acceptable performance at publishing level resolutions. I
couldn't get even remotely acceptable performance with a 7MB file in a 200MB
environment. That is sad considering the immense potential of this program
and the lack of any true alternatives in the market place.
-Chris
Jinny Brown
Have you contacted Corel directly about this? There are a lot of Mac
users (I'm not one, and can't give you tech advice) who seem to be
working with Painter just fine. I wonder if there's something besides
just Painter that needs to be fixed or something that can be set
differently to help you get decent performance.
Your situation just sounds too extreme to be the normal performance for
a Mac user. Per Tanya Staples, Corel Painter Product Manager, here's
some contact and tech support information:
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Canada
613-274-0500
Support for Canadian customer (Classic support) First 30 days free.
US support
716-871-2325
Support for US customers (Classic support) First 30 days free.
Toll free support
877-662-6735
Toll free support for all Corel Graphic customers. $25 per incident or
5pack of incidents for $99 and $199 for 10 incidents.
Email Support
http://www.corel.com/support/options/email_trial.htm
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If that doesn't get you the help you need, try contacting Tanya directly
at:
Good luck,
Jinny Brown
http://www.pixelalley.com
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Bob Lyons
I think Mac users have had it pretty
cushy for a very long time. Mac users
didn't have the trouble PC users had
because Painter was originally written
for Mac and simply converted for PC.
But since the market has shifted from
Mac to PC, so must Corel shift Painter.
So, maybe it's about time that Mac users
enjoyed all the fun problems the rest of
us have. And maybe soon, we'll finally
have a great PC version of Painter. And
the Mac version can be a conversion.
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AEFFECTS
Ahh.... what are you talking about? It would appear you've got problems other
than Painter ... ZAP your PRAM and rebuild your desktop. If your not on OS9.0
or better get on it ... defrag your drives, reseat your Graph'x board AND see
how big your Painter Portfolio folder is, over time that folder can get huge
and unload all those fonts your not using. You'd be better off having another
128 meg of Ram, allocate 250 meg of RAM to Painter ...
You got more going on than just Painter problems