Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wade, I bow to your expertise and experience with Lightroom. I have neither. Regarding PS, I'm often surprised that people have a different threshold regarding paying for software than say, good camera gear. Personal choice, I know. Photoshop, for me is like a very well set up darkroom, where as an amateur, I can invest significant time, if needed, in an individual image with fabulous control. This follows careful and individual scanning treatment of my film originals. Naturally the equation is different for volume handling, say of large quantities of files such as a pro would deal with. Guts call regarding not needing to do major work some times ;-) Of course everyone in this group always shoots with perfect or nearly so, exposure and composition. Cheers CS2 Hoppy -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Wade Heninger Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 08:19 To: LUG Leica; G Hopkinson Subject: Re: [Leica] Elements 5.0 Versus Lightroom 1.0 On 1/30/07 1:35 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Regarding the pricing, if it is for non-commercial use, and you have a > qualifying member of your household within the education > system, you can purchase an academic version very much cheaper than the > retail > version. The software is identical, only the licence > differs. Our resident Adobe rep (Wade) may step in here. Yeah, PS is a bit of cash, but not compared to purchasing pretty much any Leica doohikey that is chump change. Consider my M8 batteries ran $140 with shipping and my new 30 year old Summicron 35 was about a grand. It runs the same as the cost of a low-to-middle of the range PS digital camera these days. Speaking for myself, I am spending most of my time in LR and not Photoshop. I've never spent any time in PSE for obviously reasons. Lightroom is so much more efficient than PS or PSE and some of the new tools (targeted adjustment, curve manipulations) are so liberating after years of goofy adjustment layers and the like...well, I don't look back much except when some major work is needed. Honestly, IMHO, if major work is needed, one really should pay more attention when taking the actually the picture.;-) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . w a d e h e n i n g e r u s e r e x p e r i e n c e a d o b e s y s t e m s , i n c _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information