Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My comments and suggestions that I am overwhelmed by the flexibility of the normal plain vanilla adobe camera raw interface and its black and white conversion parameters which I've been extolling for weeks now. I've been loving it for a few months now doing its thing it does with black and white conversions. Very few of the captures I've been doing in months now have been in left color. A piece of third party software like plug inn's or filters for Photoshop or as a stand alone is created and used when they perceive that that aspect of photoshops interface is weak. Well I can tell you that this facet of Photoshops interface is not weak at all. Its been the center of my life for months now and I can't be more excited about it. I'm not all frustrated that things need to be easier or better or faster or anything. Wouldn't a more obvious approach to doing anything digitally is to see what your normal Lightroom or Photoshop software can do first? Just try it out? Find out if for you its broke. Becuae if it ain't broke then why try to fix it? I think plenty of us confuse doing photography with throwing money at it. The boring truth is once we accumulate our choice gear and software to back it up its then time to just start using it that gear. The spending phase is over and its time for the grind. I've in my deep dark past spent tons of bucks on plug ins for Photoshop most of those companies have gone under long ago staring from Kai's Power Tool on down from about the very first version of Photoshop. They are a diversion. A distraction. When any of them do anything worthwhile Adobe just absorbs it like the sweet Borg that it is. Don't mess with Mother Adobe. Learn Photoshop. Keep your Photoshop chops sharp. Adobe is not going to go under. On the LUG photoshops is constantly criticized for having to much stuff in it. But then peoples favorite thing to do is to throw money at it as if its missing something important. Mark William Rabiner Although I just checked KPT is still with us I just don't know anyone who uses it anymore. I think they went under for a while then came back. > From: Kenneth Frazier <kennybod at mac.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:07:11 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] OT: Lightroom and Nik Efex > > Folks, > > I recall someone mentioning using Nik Efex Pro, with Lightroom. > > Any users have any comments or suggestions? > > Ken > --------------------------- > Kenneth Frazier > kennybod at me.com > kennybod at mac.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information