Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Who is more responsible and get should get more credit for this amazing evolution in photography which is digital photography than Adobe?. Epson? Did I forget anybody? With Photoshop they've created not a world to work in but a universe. How many organizations, websites, cults are devoted to it? Its not a metaphor for a DARK ROOM; Its a metaphor for a BLACK HOLE with effects galactic on the crafting of photography. The suite in its many forms are an absurdly awesome enabling set of tools very well integrated. Photoshop cubed. The idea of a guy being handed this set of tools by somebody arbitrarily like its some kind of accident is amazing to me. Who would have someone buy such a critical and expensive set of tools like this? "go out and buy me a suit and wallet and a car". - and then complain about it? I sound here mildly adoring on the Adobe company cult but I have frustrations with it which I write about regularly on the LUG. Sometimes when you lay them out in the sun to close to noon they dry too fast and crack. Try building a house out of THOSE bricks!! I've have used a half dozen or more of their software for decades and I think they deserve a noble prize for excellence in wonderfulness. Starting with Pagemaker which saved Apple with the 300 laser printer right as it was getting off the ground in the mid to late 80's. It almost didn't; Desktop publishing it was called. I love their stuff. I love the packaging. I love the documentation. I love their logo. The color red they use for it. Their icons. Mainly of course I love the main Adobe INTERFACE which stays beautifully consistent from program to program - in front of some new thing with no clue was so what its for or what it does. I just start using it.. They listen to their customers like no company I've ever seen. When the Photoshop program opens and I see all those names of the people who developed this latest upgrade these people are Gods to me. Its a pantheon rolling over. I wonder what they eat for breakfast. I think I met one once at a wedding some bridesmaid or something.. I think I dropped down and kissed the floor from whence they walked. Mumbling "I am not worthy" repeatedly. Maybe not. Mark William Rabiner > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 13:11:46 +1000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Photoshop CS 3 to CS 4 Upgrade Worth It? > > > I don't understand your evil empire world domination remarks but never > mind. Of course we all have different perspectives and priorities. > I really don't understand your sympathy for Nikon, as you know. Surely if > you have say, several thousand Nikon Raw files then the data in those files > including the encrypted white balance information is YOURS not Nikons. > That has nothing to do with Adobe providing access to Nikon's proprietary > formats (and all of the others). > In fact Nikon and Adobe have released joint statements on their positions > on > this. > http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/nikonraw.html