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by pkmays
5170 days ago
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Photoshop Elements is actually a totally different product. Someone who's very comfortable with the Photoshop workflow might not like Elements at all. There actually was a Photoshop Light: Photoshop LE. I got a free copy of Photoshop 5.5 LE along with a Wacom tablet. It really was a stripped down Photoshop. Imagine someone had sprinkled #ifdef PHOTOSHOP_LE everywhere and then said "Ship it!" It was nearly the perfect product for me. The only really annoying limitation was working with a single step of undo/redo. I taught me to be very deliberate with my brush strokes. :D |
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This is a surprisingly common strategy for shrinkwrapped software. I interviewed at Chief Architect once. (http://www.chiefarchitect.com/). They have one codebase. They have about a dozen products overall though, which are all selective builds of the same codebase. Now instead of just selling $2000 software to professionals, they can sell $60-$600 software to hobbyists. Kind of funny thinking about how much money the humble #ifdef has made the software industry, eh?