Environments and Landscapes

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I noticed a lot of environments/landscapes are done completely in photoshop instead of using painter or photoshop and painter. Is there a reason why? I know there is something that is in the photoshop brush system thats not in painters, but I don't quite remember what it was exactly. Does anyone know why it's mostly photoshop? Or the benefirts of using photoshop over painter or vice versa?

[Farvus]

I think it's beacause Photoshop has many tools that make it easy to play with textures and adjust different things like contrast, colors.
For example there are layer masks, transform tool for putting some elements in perspective, adjustment layers, different selection tools and so on.

[CyberGhost]

It's proabably just a matter a taste. I'm sure you could make the same landscapes and enviroments in Painter. Most Pros use custom brushes like a dog uses his sense of smell. So, they probably are use to making custom brushes and things of that nature within Photoshop. Hope I helped answer your question.

Also, if you want to know more about Painter. I would suggest maybe googling some things like Painter vs Photoshop or something like that. I think it's better than asking here only. I'm not saying asking here is waste of time, but you'll have better luck if you did both. Hope I helped.

[Trefle]

I think it's probably between:
a) personal taste
b) technical reason
c) economic reason (maybe it's too wasteful/expensive to use money to buy two of them right now?)
d) two of them
e) three of them
f) others.