Comparing the strengths of Photoshop and Painter

…Painter and Photoshop are both world classed applications in their categories.…Photoshop excels at image manipulation. Painters forte is expressive brushwork.…I use both apps in a workflow, I refer…to as a Photoshop sandwich with Painter in the middle.…And, I'm going to go through exactly where each of these applications…has it's strength and show you why I like to have Painter…in the middle and use Photoshop before and after my painting activity.…

So the first slice of bread in our sandwich is Photoshop.…And this is the image preparation phase.…Use Photoshop for things like resizing the image in advance for the intended output.…Also, in some projects, you may need to add a border.…Particularly if you're sending an image out that has…a, what's called a gallery wrap, where the…image actually wraps around the edges of a canvas.…You need to add that border and Photoshop is just better for measurement purposes…and making sure that you get the right dimensions that you're going to need.…

Also, and this is very critical, use…