[Leica] Anybody heard of Affinity!

[John McMaster]

It has improved a lot since then. As Geoff asked,  what steps do you carry out in PS for a typical photograph?

john

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner

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> 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> 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> 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>
>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>