image editing software design idea

Hello,

first time poster here...


I work for a retouching company in Sydney (http://www.electricart.com.au) using photoshop to do 90% of our editing work and realised that as time goes by Photoshop is becoming a bloated beast... too slow, too many useless features etc (sorry lens flare filter fans).

For the remaining 10% of our work we use a now discontinued program called Livepicture.

We work with LARGE files... drum scans from 100mb up to about 500mb... multiplied by 50+ layers and you got 10GB photoshop files that can't be worked on in real time. (Our office size record was a 16bit CMYK, 250mb base size photoshop file which quickly bloated to 40GB).
Photoshop can't cope with such sizes.
As far as I know (and technically I don't know much) Livepicture works at screen res and utilises fits file format which lets it work on any resolution source files in real time.., smudges, warps and 1200px size brushes all work on 500mb scans with the same speed as they would on 1mb scans all at 16bit/channel. But it's not without limitations either.

So basically I'm looking for anyone interesed in developing a better alternative not just a photoshop clone like gimp.

I have a good idea of the user end design required for the and I think I have some unique solutions for interface, just need someone who can turn those into reality.

Anyone interested?


Regards,
Peter.
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