Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:42 AM 3/11/99 -0800, you wrote: >Can anyone recommend something good in image editing software? >Hopefully something other than the $600 plus Adobe Photoshop. I just >bought a film scanner so am brand new to digitizing and manipulating >images and don't know if I could benefit from all the features of >Adobe in the foreseeable future. Let me tell you, I've found Photoshop to be absolutely wonderful! I have it at home (got lucky and ended up getting the original Windows version for $49 - what a bargain! - I traded it for something they wanted at work, and they weren't using the Windows version there any more, so it was a waste of shelf space). Two upgrades, and about $300 later, and I have 5.0. It has calibration settings that are really important for good reproduction. I just picked up an Epson printer the other day, and by calibrating the monitor in Photoshop, and using ICM in the printer driver, I get true what you see is what you get - nearly indistinguishable anyway, and easy to compensate for now) in color and black and white that looks like real prints from a photo lab. No, better than most places you would get prints done, except high-end pro. labs. Photoshop is a very good choice for accuracy in printing, therefore worth the expense. But if you don't want that, Adobe Photo Deluxe is a program to consider, but it's run by some numbskull menu, rather than like Photoshop. But it's basically a stripped-down version of Photoshop. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Today's subliminal thought is...