![]() It isn't a clone of Photoshop, but its user interface is about as close as you can get to Photoshop without a lawsuit, I think. If PhotoPlus has a strong suit, it would be that it is the most successful of Photoshop work-alike editors. Also, there were quite a few more amateur tutorials (of varying quality) on Youtube for PSP. But I felt that Corel had more free and paid training aids available, and if you look at the 3rd party training sites, while there isn't a LOT of training aids for PSP compared to PS, there are SOME as opposed to none for Photoplus (at least that was the way it was the last time I looked, about 10 - 11 months ago). PhotoPlus does support Photoshop plug-ins BTW. It had nothing to do with their "perceived ethics" (which is just fine in my opinion), but with my feeling that cost and 3rd party support is better with PSP. ![]() Ultimately I selected PSP X5 as my companion editor to ACDSee Pro 6, (now 7). Over the years it looks like they like to copy a lot from Paint Shop Pro, including product naming schemes, to confuse consumers. ![]() I don't think Serif is an ethical company. Maybe someone who actually uses it can give us an opinion on its value? The only issue is that I do not know if it takes photoshop plugins, but if you don't use those, this may be worth a look. The price is less than 100 dollars for the Photoplus. The feature list seems comparable to CS PS6 and I have another Serif program, for document editing, that works very well. But glancing around, one that interests me, aside from GIMP, is Serif Photoplus X6. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.I have CS PS6 until it does not work with an operating system (that may be a while -0 ). At Starbucks, he succeeded longtime leader Howard Schultz, who came out of retirement last spring to serve as interim CEO while the company searched for a new chief executive.Ĭopyright 2023 The Associated Press. Narasimhan is a former PepsiCo executive who most recently served as CEO of the U.K.-based health and nutrition company Reckitt. Tuesday’s earnings report was the first presided over by Narasimhan, who took over as Starbucks’ CEO at the end of March. Shares in Starbucks fell 5.5% in after-market trading. That also beat analysts' forecast of 65 cents. Adjusted for one-time items, the company earned 74 cents per share. ![]() Starbucks' earnings rose 35% to $908 million. "There is more work to do in our stores for the demand that we see." “Our performance is strong, but our health could be stronger,” he said. But he said Starbucks must do a better job simplifying its supplies and operations he noted that the company currently has 1,500 cup and lid combinations around the world. Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan said the company also continues to introduce new equipment - like hand-held cold foamers - to improve execution and speed. As part of a larger plan to reinvigorate sales, Starbucks has been closing underperforming locations and replacing them with stores in higher-traffic areas or smaller stores that are focused on pickup or drive-thru business. Starbucks said it opened 464 net new stores during the quarter, including 100 in North America. For the full year, Starbucks expects North American same-store sales increases in the 7-9% range, Ruggeri said. The double-digit gain was partly due to comparisons with the same period last year, when sales were impacted by the omicron variant. In North America, same-store sales climbed 12%, and the company reported more store visits as well as higher spending per visit. "We’re very encouraged by many of the signs that we see, but there’s a lot that we’re navigating," she said on a conference call Tuesday with investors. Ruggeri said Starbucks expects the pace of weekly sales' improvement to moderate in the second half of this year. But the company is still uncertain about post-pandemic customer patterns as well as the resumption of international travel to China. Starbucks Chief Financial Officer Rachel Ruggeri said traffic is strong in the afternoons and on weekends at stores in China. It was the first time Starbucks had seen positive same-store sales in China since 2021. Same-store sales in China were up 3%, reversing a 29% decline the company saw in its October-December period due to a spike in COVID infections. That also beat analysts' forecast of a 7.3% increase. Same-store sales - or sales at stores open at least a year - rose 11% as traffic picked up in stores. That was better than the $8.41 billion Wall Street had forecast, according to analysts polled by FactSet. The Seattle coffee giant said Tuesday that its net revenue jumped 14% in the January-March period to $8.72 billion. Starbucks posted stronger-than-expected sales in its fiscal second quarter as demand in China began to recover, but the company said that sales growth could moderate as the year progresses.
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