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Subject: [Leica] Anybody heard of Affinity!
From: hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:08:10 +1000
References: <CAE3QcF6TaCw0_rYLtE12pspWtyFWYRK5WnkAwCrpHyNvNHyx6g@mail.gmail.com> <D0FFF0FD.3257A%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Mark I doubt that you want to be persuaded! Lightroom is up to 5.7 by the
way. I don't even remember what the first version looked like.
We couldn't have more different viewpoints it seems.
Skepticism lies close to paralysis ;-)
As I mentioned if you do want a comparison list your current processes and
I shall show you the alternatives available.






On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> I had the first Lightroom.
>
> This is the first I'd heard of image processing capabilities you can't get
> in Photoshop that you can get in LightRoom.
> Tell me what Lightroom can do that Photoshop can not?
> Please let me count the ways!
>
> Is LightRoom being marketed as a more powerful image processor than
> Photoshop? I don't think so because its clearly not and remains a shortcut
> to not using Photoshop.
>
>
>
>
> On 2/10/15 4:30 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com 
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Mark you don't sound very familiar with Lightroom's capabilities!
> > It is a better and more capable tool than Photoshop in many ways.
> > Photoshop of course has developed as an enormously capable and complex
> > program. It also has aspects completely irrelevant to many photographers.
> > Notwithstanding the digital asset management capacity, purely as an image
> > development tool, while using the identical raw processing engine, it
> > provides some faster and better options than Photoshop with some
> important
> > advantages too.
> > Try it for free (for 30 days I think) if you do want to learn what it can
> > do.
> > Or describe your typical steps in Ps currently starting with a new
> > photoshoot set?
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >
> > On 11 February 2015 at 07:05, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> I do think the top photogs and serious amateurs who use Lightroom not
> just
> >> as a starting point but as a finishing point on  all their image
> processing
> >> are not the same people who honed all their images in Photoshop since
> the
> >> early 1990's. To those photogs Photoshop is not such an easy thing to
> give
> >> up for a contact sheet program with a bunch of image processing sliders
> >> added on later.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/10/15 3:41 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Only for Mac currently it seems.
> >>> While I do use the subscription arrangements for Photoshop and
> Lightroom
> >>> bundled together, Lightroom is still also available under the
> traditional
> >>> licensing arrangement (and of course bundled with many Leica products
> >> that
> >>> way).
> >>> I find now that I am only using Ps as an adjunct to LR, that is from
> >> within
> >>> LR developing module where I need specialised tools. I would think that
> >>> many photogs never use those though.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>> Geoff
> >>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> >>>
> >>> On 11 February 2015 at 06:21, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> <javascript:;>>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Wow. I will certainly try it. I've been using Photoshop since 1990,
> and
> >> I
> >>>> absolutely love it, but I am very uneasy about their subscription
> model
> >> and
> >>>> Photoshop CC. If Affinity actually does what I need, I will try to
> >> switch.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2/10/15 11:54am, Scott Gregory wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/first-real-
> >>>>> alternative-photoshop-launched-and-its-free-21514137
> >>>>>
> >>>>
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> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mark William Rabiner
> >> Photographer
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> >>
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-- 

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman


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