RE: [Leica] HAPPY HOLIDAYS - AND HERE'S A GIFT!!

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

If you haven't tried it, don't be so sure...for the $500 difference...unless
you are a digital artist....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: Thursday, December 24, 1998 4:08 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] HAPPY HOLIDAYS - AND HERE'S A GIFT!!
>
>
> "B. D. Colen" wrote:
> >
> > Having just picked up my Christmas present - an HP Photo
> Scanner and Epson
> > Stylus Photo printer - (Hey, when you're the sole earner and
> you're my age
> > why not pick up the present yourself ! :-) ) - I had to give
> serious thought
> > as to what to do about software. Obviously, the answer is Photo
> Shop, but
> > that costs more than $600 which I don't have. BUT.....
> >
> > Corel PHOTO-PAINT 8, which also costs around $600 and which is Corel's
> > pseudo Photo Shop - and works with all the Photo Shop plug-ins,
> comes as a
> > $109 "upgrade." Well....guess what guys and guyettes?
> >
> > Yes, it is the ENTIRE PROGRAM, for $109. It doesn't ask where
> the earlier
> > version is installed. The CD doesn't say it's an upgrade. It's
> got to be the
> > biggest bargain in scanning/photo printing/image manipulation.
> >
> > Okay, it's not photo shop. And I'm sure there are a few things
> photo shop
> > has that it doesn't. But...it has all the standard tools
> including dodge and
> > burn. It comes with a full set of encyclopedic manuals. And it
> comes with a
> > second CD loaded with about a million fonts, photo images, and
> gimmcrakies
> > of one sort or another.
> >
> > SO...If you're giving any thought to getting into digital
> printing, but were
> > hesitating because of the software investment on top of the scanner and
> > printer - hesitate no longer!
> >
> It's my opinion that Photoshop is more important to doing digital
> photography than any and all hardware and software combined. It all
> starts and ends with Photoshop and its mainly Photoshop in-between.
> After you've tweaked and mutated your images use your next paycheck for
> a printer, have a photo CD made before you get a scanner to have images
> to play with.. After Photoshop Comes Painter and Illustrator. Coral
> software is a big dubious ? with the exception of WordPerfect; a
> word processor.
>