By the prices that have been thrown out here it seems as though I am in the wrong business haha. I have also worked as a programmer, the language of choice, java. I have done programming for a long time and would charge somewhere in the range of $20-$25k to write a Photoshop plugin that just has the dither conversion portion with more controls. If you're doing it for fun, then it's pretty expensive.Īnd I agree with Gary. If you are doing it for profit, $400 is expensive, but compared to spending $10k-30k for a laser, it's not that bad. But if you use the interactive adjustments in Photograv you can go further than is actually possible in the paint programs.
So, yes you can get close with PhotoShop or PhotoPaint, and certainly get better than the default setttings in Photograv. But most paint programs have no specific controls at the point of conversion to dither, while Photograv does. Half of the steps in Photograve are simply optimizing levels and running filters, which Photoshop or any good paint program can do. But there is more control over the process with Photograv. Photoshop can get you diffusion dithered images that are fairly good, and with a bit of work can come close to Photograv. I have programmed for years and I don't think most people understand what it takes to do something you consider simple. It would only take about two photos to pay for photograv if you have any value of your time at all. If you did find someone who could/would create it why do you think they should give it away free? If you spent any time trying to do yourself what photograv does you would see the value.
Trust me, it would take you several thousand dollars to give you the functionality you have in photograv for $400. Then this plugin could be available MUCH cheaper if not free? Has anyone else thought of this?Ī programmer capable of creating such a plugin would probably command $200, or more, per hour to create the plugin for you. I mean, it gets the job done, but it's definetly not $400.00 asthetically pleasing ( the gui that is haha ) Anyway, just a thought. I would be more than willing to find and pay somebody to develop a plugin for photoshop that will do what photograv does. Is there no way to get close to photograv's results in corel or photoshop? A plug in that is available or can be designed. Photograv, I know it works well, but the price is quite rediculous as has been discussed in this forum before.
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