Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> I'm not so sure that Lightroom uses the same code base, Frank. On the >> Mac Lightroom is a 64 bit application while Photoshop remains 32 bit. >> While a good part of that is certainly the Carbon bindings in >> Photoshop for the GUI, I'd bet that there are a lot of Carbon calls in >> the bowels of Photoshop as well. Lightroom looks to be a totally new >> product/code base so I'm thinking that while the (handwaving) methods >> are the same the code has been altered and perhaps even re-written >> from scratch. (That would make sense for Adobe to do, in my opinion, >> for a new product being released into a very new computing environment >> from the one in which Photoshop evolved.) >> I have a jacked up version of Photoshop which I may have not at all needed but it came with the suite I needed which is adobe creative suite 4 design premium. It's called Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended. " addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4 is the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer computers (only on Windows ? the OS X version is still 32-bit only.)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop So it's all different. There was a period of time where I felt like I had a real grip on the meat of Photoshop. I could have taught it. Now no. its left me in the dust. I may go back to school. As a student. Mark William Rabiner