I'm gonna have a good look at pwp - but it's the organizing of those 15000+
images more than pixel-level editing I'm looking for. Is it any good at that?
Jez
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From: Ken Norton
Sent: 04/11/2009 20:14:01
Subject: Re: [OM] Lightroom?
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> This is the part I don't get. Folks on theis list are always shooting barbs
> at Adobe for the upgrade treadmill
Absolutely!
We're so concerned about "backwards compatibility", and that drove the whole
DNG fiasco which was Adobe's scam to... oh, never mind--I'll save that beef
for another day.
But anyway, "backwards compatibility" with Adobe isn't the problem. "Forward
compatibility" is the problem. In a nutshell, if you buy a new camera you
must buy the upgrade to Adobe software. ACR is locked down to the current
camera list at the time of release and they refuse to make ACR forward
compatible, which is the driving reason why most of us MUST upgrade the
software. There are some exceptions to this, but for the most part, if you
buy a new camera you are hosed.
As to PS, well, the program is an absolute disaster in the memory/processing
department. It takes a huge amount of memory and processing power to have
an editing experience that is anything but hair-tugging weeping, wailing and
nashing of teeth. And it only gets worse and worse.
So, you buy a new digital camera. You have to buy an upgrade to your Adobe
software. To run the new Adobe software you have to buy a new computer. That
new $1200 DSLR just cost you $3500.
Meanwhile, there are alternatives which sometimes are actually better.
Olympus Studio2, for example, gives outstanding colors in the conversions
without strange artifacts. ACR? Not so much. Picture Window Pro 5.0 runs
circles around Photoshop in functions like resizing, cropping and other
full-image adjustments on a fraction of the memory and processing
horsepower. The entire program costs LESS than just an upgrade.
Anybody who grouses at Microsoft for being evil is totally misguided. Adobe
makes Microsoft seem angelic in comparison. When was the last time that
Adobe GAVE AWAY a service pack update to their software?
Sure, there are some good things that Adobe has done, but I suspect those
were caused by somebody's mistake than by a corporate decision.
AG (Bought Adobe products once--never again) Schnozz
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