Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Right on. I do not even have Photoshop anymore. LR is more than enough. If I have to spend 1/2 hour manipulating an image in a piece of software to make it look decent, then I have screwed up at the time of taking the picture. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 13 May 2018, at 20:29, Aram via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > > Seldom and with resentment? I don't think so. I will wager that most > people who use LR use it as their main tool for photography. I so rarely > go > to PS now. LR is so much easier and does 99.9% of what I want to do. I > import directly into it, organize, keyword, name my photos there. Do > almost > all my processing there, with the exception of blending photos for Depth > of > Field, and the rare major editing I need to do as far as removing objects > that I could not perform while taking the photo or in LR. I do all my > printing and exporting to share in LR. Photoshop is ALMOST a waste of > time > and hard drive space. ALMOST.... > > It took a while to get there from PS, but starting with the first version > of > LR, and getting use to the mindset of nondestructive editing, there is no > resentment in using LR. The only resentment is towards the subscription > model that Adobe and others have started to use. > > Aram > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rabiner > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 12:41 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] It's all your fault > > The reason why everyone does not switch and join up right off the bat is > because we're talking about software that a large percentage of people use > seldom and with resentment. They'd rather just skip it. > What's wanted is for photography now to be like in the good old days when > you clicked it and forgot it. Just remember which drug store you brought > it > too. People want a hands off approach to photography. They want it un > touched by human hands especially their own.. > It's one thing to buy cheap software but paying for it every month seems > like one is sending off the wrong message. And the message is "I can't be > bothered". And they really want everyone who does care to hear it. Often. > The majority of photo enthusiasts could more accurately be called camera > enthusiasts who could more accurately be called money enthusiasts. > You can't really call them camera lovers as cameras just pass though their > hands like its nothing. > Making a commitment to the final result of their images is so far beyond > the > point it's not even funny. > > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer > > ?On 5/12/18, 10:55 PM, "LUG on behalf of Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG" > <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of > lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > > I still cannot, for the life of me, understand why everybody does not > switch, it is that convenient and at a very reasonable cost. Is cutting > your nose to spite your face standard practice? > > As John Maynard Keynes once replied to a reporter who accused him of > changing his mind - "If the facts change, sir, I change my mind. Pray > what > do you do?" :-) > > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 3:12 AM, Brian Reid <reid at > mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > wrote: > >> Well, I just drank the kool-aid (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >> Drinking_the_Kool-Aid if you don't know what that means), and then > bought >> a year's subscription to Adobe CC. There were too many "last straw" >> situations and I found I was wasting time trying to find workarounds. >> >> I know I can still use my trusty Photoshop CS6 and Dreamweaver CS6 if >> needed, but InDesign CS6 is generating warning messages from the > operating >> system and Camera Raw CS6 fell out of its wheelchair. >> >> Thanks for all of the commentary and opinions. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information