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To: DD ASSOCIATES who wrote (2535)	9/11/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: Murrey Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3111

As another respondent stated: Start your own thread and see what happens. I didn't take it as ADBE bashing per se. I just felt that your approach was a little strange. Apparently I wasn't alone.

To: DD ASSOCIATES who wrote (2535)	9/11/1998 12:54:00 PM
From: DD ASSOCIATES	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3111

We did a search on the NET this morning as to Adobe's new ImageStyler, here is one review we have found so far, and will be posting another later this afternoon. James Carter & Associates Re: Adobe ImageStyler goes after business graphics and competes with Photoshop!!! Hopefully I can provide the answer; Adobe ImageStyler will be introduced on September 14 and will be directed at the static image market as a counter to Macromedia Fireworks for creating image effects. A friend saw it demonstrated yesterday at the same meeting as THW's new products and said it looked like another Photoshop clone like ImageReady is that can do drop shadows etc on images very easily. ImageStyler is not directed at the Web animation market but is directed at business professionals that won't spend the time with Photoshop but want to get some cool looking static graphics with little effort. It competes with its own partner base of Photoshop plug-in makers which will surely anger some companies that derive their revenue off of adding those special effect features to Photoshop. Adobe is adding a new product to increase revenue but as they say they are only cannibalizing sales of Photoshop and confusing the end-user. Do I buy Photoshop? Do I buy ImageReady? Do I buy ImageStyler? Do I buy all three? Or do I find a tool from someone else that does all three. I'm sure ImageStyler is a valuable tool, but why so many tools to do different things. Why not an all in one solution. Macromedia has taken that approach. Totally Hip Software Inc. is said to be rounding out WebPainter 3 and adding more value. Adobe ImageStyler crashed the system three times and is a product they should have included with ImageReady. It will definitely not work on the lower end and MAC hardware as system requirements are quite critical. Over all rating 2 out of 5 stars. TechWorld