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Firstly i am going to compare two software packages, these being photoshop and paint. Photoshop is an extremely in-depth graphics utility.

It is used professionally by graphics designers worldwide. The possibilities with photoshop are fairly endless and pretty much any image can be edited. Images can be edited in a number of different ways, these include colour correction, special effects, lighting, and background changes.

Lasso tools and magic wand tools can be used to cut out images so they can be placed elsewhere, these go on colour so certain bits of images that are the same colour can be cut out. Layers are also present in photoshop, this allows the user to place different parts of images on the same canvas.

One limitation of photoshop is that it is difficult to learn, some of the tools are complex.

Another limitation of photoshop is that images need to be rasterized to be altered and changed

Photoshop can also be used to export images to different adobe programs such as fireworks. For example, a graphics designer creates images on photoshop, he then exports the bmp files to fireworks so they can be animated. Resizing and compression can also all be done within photoshop.

Comparing photoshop with paint is extremely easy. Paint is a very simple program, the amount of features do not even compare to the vast quanitity of photoshop.

The idea of paint is for simple editing, such as cropping and resizing. No special effects can be used, and it isn't a professional program. Paint is a free utility that is free with any edition of windows. There are no complex tools within paint only simple drawing tools such as pen, paint, spray and a different array of colours.

In paint you can save files as BMP, JPEGS, PNG's and GIFS.

Another limitation of Paint is that it doesnt include layers, this means everything is drawn on the same canvas with and cannot be split into sections.


512RAM VS 1024 RAM

I am now going to compare having 512 ram in a system and then a system in 1024 ram. The difference between the two is quite profound. The computer with the 512 ram would run quite slow compared to the other, images would take longer to load and render and some of the tools would take longer to process.

One example of this is the magic wand tool, this would take longer to work than the computer with 1024 ram. 512 ram is not really suitable for a graphics design computer using a complex program. Aside from this though, it would be fine if the computer was running on paint instead of photoshop.

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor(3.0GHz,6MB Cache,1333MHz) VS
Intel® Core 2 Quad Q9450 Quad Core Processor(2.66GHz,12MB Cache,1333MHz)

The processor is the heart of the computer, it is the component that sorts out all the processes with all programs, thus, is key for graphics design. The duo core has more clock speed per core, but only two as opposed to four cores. There is also double the cache on the quad core. With the more powerful processor, more processes can be used at once. One example is photoshop, with the more powerful processor the tools load quicker and can manipulate the image quicker.