03 Oct 2011
I've started to use Autodesk Composite instead of Photoshop in my daily work and have to say that it works really good. When you have to deal with many variations node-based process is a heaven after Photoshop layers.
Support of 32-bit images, nice set of tools (though somewhat limited, but anyway), animated vector masks, animated curves, all this makes Composite really decent replacement of Photoshop. Aditionally it supports Python scripting and this is the best part of it (apart of that it comes with 3ds max for free).
I've started to deal with Composite scripts and here is my first attempt to implement the commands that I'd like to have in that program - Open Containing Folder command. Just copy the script into your "Composite 2011\resources\scripts\actions" folder and that's all. Right-click on the Image Import or Ouput nodes and choose Open Containing Folder - explorer window will be opened on the location of the files from clicked node.
Enjoy and good luck with Composite! Yes, really, you have to give it a chance!