RE: [Leica] Re: Photoshop educational discount (was B/W digital printing options)

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

Further responses to the complaints about Photoshop's cost:

No one has to pay inflated prices for software. Instead, they can climb into
their $22,000 cars - that ought to cost about $8,500 - and drive home to
their $350,000 houses that ought to cost $90,000, where they will go through
the $220 week's worth of groceries - that ought to have cost about $50 - and
then relax after dinner cursing Adobe while they clean the finger prints off
their $5000 to $10,000 worth of Leica equipment - a modest investment if one
had a couple of modern M or R bodies and a small assortment of lenses -
which they use to take photos of their kids, flowers, and the places they
visit on vacation - all of which could easily be photographed just as well
with a high quality point-and-shoot.

Next, isn't there something positively oxymoronic about people who would
even, in their wildest dreams, consider $7,000 35-70 2.8 zooms, or dumping
their M6 TTLs to run out and spend more money to get M7s at $2395,
complaining about a $600 software program - particularly when that program
can replace a $2,000 enlarger.

Further, there are much less expensive ways to buy the most essential parts
of Photoshop: There is Photoshop elements; and, if you get a stripped down
version of Photoshop when you buy a computer you can upgrade to the full
version for a very reasonable price.

Third, there are good alternatives to PhotoShop = one of which is Corel
Photo-Paint, the full version of which costs under $200. For the first year
I was doing digital printing I used the Corel program and it had everything
I needed. It is so close to Photoshop that one has to wonder how Corel gets
away with it...;-)

So rather than beat up on Adobe for charging a high price for a
state-of-the-art product, why don't we go back to beating up on lawyers
charging $300-500 per hour for drafting fill-in-the-blank documents. ;-)
(JUST KIDDING...NO MORE LAWYER TRASHING!...:-) )

B. D.





- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Allan
Wafkowski
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:40 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: Photoshop educational discount (was B/W digital
printing options)


So everyone SHOULD pay inflated prices for software to keep you living
in the manner of you are accustom to?

Sounds good to me.

Allan


On Friday, March 29, 2002, at 10:33 PM, Pete Su wrote:
> I work in commercial software development. Developing quality software
> takes a staff of people who are expensive and a lot of expensive time
> and other processes. I haven't used Photoshop a lot, but whenever I
> have used it it has worked well, which is more than I can say for a lot
> of software.

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