Who is  Adobe's competition?
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Paint Shop Pro rivals photoshop
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I am pretty sure Adobe software works on both. I know for sure Photoshop and Imageready does. You can chekc the disc or disc case or the Adobe web site:\nhttp://store.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catCreativeSuite
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Adobe Premiere (Professional Users)\nFire and Smoke (High End Studios use this)
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http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/theampersand.html
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Adobe Photoshop and all Adobe products are not open source so it's impossible to tell in which language it is written. It most surelly is C++, since it's the industry standard but this doesn't mean other languages hadn't been used.\nIf you want to see some sample source code, try gimp. It's open source and at some extent is similar to photoshop.
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It is about 400 US dollars for the Adobe Creative Suite which includes Photoshop. You can get Photoshop by itself for as low as $175 and Photoshop elements for less than that. You may have to pay more if you are not a student. Proffesionals must buy registered copies from Adobe.\n\nI would recommend that experienced designers get the entire "Creative Suite" and novice users get just the "elements".
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also try adobe premier pro
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Unfortunately, you legally have to "buy the software" twice for the second person to use it. When you're paying the absurd amount of money for whatever it is you're buying from Adobe, you're not actually paying for the software but for a software license, and in most cases it's a single license for a single computer. \n\nWhat you might want to look into is buying a volume license for that specific software, which would allow you to install the same software using the same license on a number of machines (depending on the size of the volume license). \n\nBest way to get one of these volume licenses is probably through an authorized reseller like www.asap.com or you can look for other ones here:\n\nhttp://partners.adobe.com/resellerfinder/na/reseller.jsp?nav=alc_na
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If you want a free utility, do a search for "Cute PDF".  It's simple, free and easy to use.  Highly recommended.  Just don't tell Adobe!!!!
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I know that Adobe Elements is pretty similar to Adobe photoshop, but I don't know if it has the clone toll or not. If it does, then that  would be one of the options.
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after effects? it's adobe.
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Macromedia was bought by Adobe. They are now one company, and because of that, have one website.
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As a Windows XP user, I can only confirm that Adobe programs open perfectly well in that environment. \n\nIf you are refering to Mac computers (iMac for example), you must download the program "for Mac users" (which is often slightly different).\n\nSo if your programs don't work, it's very lickely you downloaded a PC version of these softwares....
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Are you running Mac, because FCP is only available for Mac, as I'm sure you know, Varun. I just got Adobe Premiere, but have yet to try it out. \n\nIf you have the choice, FCP is better but in the Windows arena I hear Avid is pretty good and used by a lot of professionals.
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Depends on what you want to do. Adobe Photoshop for pictures. Lightwave for special effects. Adobe Audition for music editing and mastering. Reason if you are a musician. It just depends. All of these things are production quality software that the pro's use.
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If you're doing professional work you need to invest in Adobe products plain and simple.
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My own experience with Photoshop on multiprocessor machines has been very positive. While I don't have actual numbers from my own tests, you can look at these Photoshop/Dual Core articles and benchmarks:\n\nFirst source: "Adobe Photoshop CS is a graphic artist's übertool: Hardly any graphic art work can get done without it. We tested the Opteron whitebox with Photoshop CS, and it shows some improvement over the already speedy Pentium EE 840. Out of the eight filters, the Opteron wins three of the tests, and on the others is only a second behind. The Pentium EE 840 took 2.5 times longer to complete the wave filter which skews the results, but excluding that time, the results are nearly identical overall. Both the dual-core Pentium EE 840 and dual-core, dual-CPU Opteron workstations are formidable PhotoShop platforms, and both would service a graphic artist well."\n\nSee the benchmarks on this first source's link.\n\nSecond source: "There is no doubt that a program like Photoshop will be much faster on a dual core system than its single core counterpart. The majority of operating systems do recognize and support at least two processors. There is some load balancing of non-SMP applications but not as efficiently as those written for multithreading."