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@Phil Clevenger Power Tool and the other Kai products removed the constraints that limited, or perhaps inhibited, a lot of existing users. Yeah, maybe the pre-press guys or the hard-core image manipulators hated it, but a lot of creative and artistic types were suddenly able to do incredible things with Photoshop, not because the functionality wasn't there but because they now had a tool they "got" and was more conducive to their "artist" brain. During my brief foray at design school I saw classmates who couldn't get anything out of vanilla PS suddenly blow everyone away with inventive and, to me at least, almost unimaginable stuff once they had Power Tools installed. To me that is the true power of a UI.
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