Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/3/01 6:24 PM, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com wrote: > I don't LOVE Photoshop I AM Photoshop!!! I'm with Mark on this. I've been with PS from the beginning too. The massive strength of photoshop over its competitors is simply its depth and its history. Photoshop is sort of the Turing machine of image manipulation in the sense that if its possible, you can do it. PS 6.0 was a huge step forward, but what is so great is that you know that Adobe are still pouring r&d into the program. Yeah, we'd like 16-bit layering but we don't really need it. Anyone who has checked Corel's balance sheet and market performance (as well as its history of how it deals with acquisitions) has to know that whatever the strengths of its products might be you are ultimately buying into a dead end. Everytime I sit down to use Photoshop I am conscious that even more than with most computer stuff I am living in a future I couldn't have imagined as a child. Photoshop isn't hard. It's no harder than you Leica. If you can use the levels, curves, selection, clone and unsharp mask tools you are fully qualified to make world-class BW prints. Add color balance and you can do color too. Each of those tools will take you 1 hour to learn. What you can do with them is unlimited. If I had one request to the Photoshop Gods (apart from 16-bit layers, that is) it would be for an extended 'custom' filter that would let you create new filters based on the matrix model, but with a lot more control. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com