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Subject: [Leica] Photoshop CS 3 to CS 4 Upgrade Worth It?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 07:23:04 +0530
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Geoff,
I will take the reverse view - the evil empire trying for world
domination in graphics is Adobe, and I have no idea how they have not
had the antitrust book thrown at them yet. I have the CS3 suite,
bought for me by my son's friend who used to work for Adobe here in
India - I had asked for the standalone Photoshop, but he landed up
with this. To upgrade it to the CS4 suite here they want only the
equivalent of US$1200. I use mainly Photoshop, but they refuse to
upgrade the one program, and insist that I have to upgrade the whole
suite (90% useless to me)! No other company in the world can get away
with this sort of pricing and gouging. I have decided to skip one
generation.

I have total sympathy with Nikon and Canon, and am firmly on their
side that their proprietary data is their own. Ask Adobe to make the
code for Photoshop open source - will they do it?

Leica, Pentax and Hasselblad use DNG because they have no money to
support any thing else.

Cheers
Jayanand



On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Bob if the camera manufacturers weren't so fond of inventing new 
> proprietary
> Raw formats, Adobe wouldn't have to keep reverse engineering and decoding
> their new formats to provide the upgrades free for owners of Ps. I think
> they currently support more than 170 Raw formats. Madness!
> That's why we have a DNG format. Thank you Leica and Hasselblad and Pentax
> for using it.
> Don't blame Adobe for Nikon and Canon's policies!
> On hardware any computer that you were happy with for CS3 will work the 
> same
> for CS4. They have just added openGL support for the smooth new scrolling,
> zooming, flick panning teatures. Any modest half way modern video card will
> work. You can see a list of tested ones in Ps support. In fact you don't
> want a card with the most on board memory (unless you play games) because
> you'll have less RAM available to Ps when the video memory is mapped to 
> RAM.
> Remember that if you use LR2 rather than ACR you will have the same Raw
> upgrades available.
> 2009/5/20 Robert D. Baron <rbaron at concentric.net>
>
>> Thanks, all, it sounds like the upgrade may turn out to be worth it.
>> It does disturb me that I need to spend $200 on this upgrade so I can
>> work on the latest raw files (Canon G10 and so forth) and then I'll
>> probably need to upgrade my computer as well.
>>
>> Does it ever stop? ?No, of course not.
>>
>> In the meantime I'll look for the best price. ?Chris, I'm not a member
>> of PPA....I was a member of NAPP but I let it expire. ?I know they
>> offer a discount but I can't remember how much. ?I'll give them a call
>> tomorrow and maybe they'll tell me as an enticement to re-up.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Geoff
> 'Life's not B&W, except at both ends'
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>
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