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Its great PI is an alternative to Photoshop. But I found the complex interface a putoff. Even after watching a tutorial on using it for mosaics it still did not seem to do as advertised.
I am sure it does with a lot of mucking around. I managed to get a 4 panel luminance mosaic to work after a lot of back and forth on tutorials etc. I could've gotten the same result from Photoshop CS4 in 2 minutes. Its a bit like driving a car with no car body and you can see everything doing its thing versus a slick well put together and matured piece of software in Photoshop.
Dynamic Background Extraction tool is the best thing about it. But that's not foolproof either and I can get a better result in Photoshop and every time. It requires a lot of user input to get a result.
But there is nothing PI can do you can't achieve in Photoshop which is also a big learning curve but an easier one. Also there are more users of Photoshop so its easier to get advice, 3rd party plug ins and tutorials on how to do things.
In a way you have a choice. You are unlikely to want to learn 2 ways of doing the same thing and will end up using one or the other.
They are too different from each other. Knowledge of Photoshop does not help you that much with PI.
Its like the writer of PI is one of these brilliant guys who sits in a room all day with a computer and does not interact with people much!
It shows in the lack of user friendliness. If it were a car it'd be a Porche but with no steering wheel, dash board or bonnet! And definitely no cup holders.
PI is a lot cheaper so that is a plus.
Horses for courses really.
Greg.
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