ABSTRACT
Photoshop was originally written as a Macintosh only application back in 1990 and became available for PC with the release of version 2.5. Photoshop now happily works out of either platform. Most commercial image-makers, who have to deal with the printing industry however, are still using Apple Macintosh computers. Macs dominate the industry but they are not necessarily any better than PCs at image making tasks. Commercial image-makers tend to purchase them because their colleagues within the industry are using them. It is really just a communication issue. Macs and PCs can talk to each other if required, e.g. Photoshop operating on either platform can open the same image file. The bottom line however is that small, but annoying, communication issues can often arise when files are passed ‘between’ the two platforms. Image-makers who are thinking of choosing the PC platform need to think carefully how, if at all, these communication issues will impact upon them. The biggest communication problem that exists to date is that an image file on a Macintosh formatted disk cannot be accessed easily, or at all, by a PC user.
