Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]OK, so I guess Adobe are just bullshiitting here: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/about/ And WTF is ACR? I know, it is some RAW conversion engine deep in the bowels of both Photoshop and Lightroom. The beauty of it all is that I don't have to care about it!!! All I have to worry about is whether the picture is any good! That is how photography should be. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Photoshop is the great image cruncher with a half assed DB tacked on to act > as a digital contact sheet. > Lightroom is a great DB digital contact sheet with a half assed image > cruncher tacked on. > They are Apples and Oranges as the old LUG used to say. > Or Apples and Pears as the French say better. > > The only mystery to me is the timing on the thing. > I like most photographers and serious photo enthusiasts I know who went > digital without waiting too long got Photoshop when they got their first > digital camera. If not before. Actually many had Photoshop way before they > even had their digital first camera. > It was not a super easy program to learn but the weeks turn into months and > before you know It you've got it at least so its doing what you need it to > do for you. But next month you'd be better. > By the way its a long way from Photoshop to Elements but most people in the > 80's and 90's just got a copy of the real big boy Photoshop from a friend. > Every kid had a copy. It was more popular than pin ball games or the jungle > Jim. > When you'd meet up with your photographer friends or talk to them you'd > talk > about the latest trick you'd learned on Photoshop. And how your early Epson > prints were looking which paper you were using which setting. > > No So all of a sudden you supposedly don't need it. > I can tell you I am very familiar with what ACR can do and its a start off > point on image crouching. Not an end to itself. > What you have learned on Photoshop this week? > Every time I've put Photoshop aside and gotten distracted by other programs > I've certainly had to pick it up again and make up for lost time. > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >