Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Photoshop?
From: pasvorn at boonmark.net (Pasvorn Boonmark)
Date: Mon Dec 15 10:01:20 2008
References: <200812140550.mBE5oDYG017292@server1.waverley.reid.org> <4F8810A2-9136-494F-ABAB-398794C3DE41@optonline.net> <3cad89990812140839s1855aca4h1a592a8a3480423c@mail.gmail.com> <49455426.3010401@summaventures.com>

I agree with Peter.  GIMP works great for casual user (non-pro) like myself.

The advantage of PhotoShop is that is works a little bit more
efficiently.  From my experience, it can handle much larger files than
GIMP.   A couple of years ago I did a comparison.  PS CS2 handles
24-bit 4x5 scan with ease.  Whereas GIMP was slow to a crawl on the
same machine.

I also use PSE.  The only feature that I use is auto-stitching.

I personally can see myself using GIMP + PSE for awhile

-Pasvorn

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> 
wrote:
> Jayanand,
>
> I disagree. If you don't want to spend anything you can use RAW with GIMP 
> for
> which there are appropriate RAW plugins.
>
> The basic problem with PS is that (i) it is expensive; (ii) if you only 
> want to
> do straightforward manipulations then a large proportion of what you are 
> paying
> for is not relevant to you. PSE is adequate on a Windows-based PC.
>
> Peter
>

Replies: Reply from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest) ([Leica] Re: Photoshop?)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Photoshop?)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Re: Photoshop?)
Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] Re: Photoshop?)