Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Again, quite so, Frank! Here is the predecessor software, announced in 2005: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/0484340472/rawshooterprem And here is Adobe's FAQ after announcement of their acquisition of Pixmantec in July 2006: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressmaterials/pdfs/FAQ-Pixmantec. pdf As you can see from the FAQ, Adobe intended from the very outset that Lightroom would handle "the entire workflow". Perhaps Mark did not express himself clearly? Piers -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Dernie Sent: 14 October 2015 16:26 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] (SPAM: ?) Re: If not Lightroom, ... Importance: Low Not so Mark. Even the first version of Lightroom had most of the photo-relevant manipulation capabilities of the then current version of Photoshop. It did have these functions organised differently, and added a cataloging system suitable for photographers, but it was by no means just a browser. Who told you that it was a browser with add-ons as an afterthought? Somebody has been really pulling the wool! cheers, Frank > On 14 Oct 2015, at 15:37, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > As LightRoom was designed to be a browser which as an afterthought had some > picture "editing" as in processing: cropping etc capabilities put in as an > afterthought and then developed with later versions. > > Photoshop itself was first designed as a program to make it so you could > change a Tiff file to a Jpeg or other file formats back and forth. > When you do that the image would sometimes darken or lighten. > So they had to put controls in there to tweak that. > Hence Photoshop. It had another name at first. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information