Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/05/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geez, guys, all I did was ask if I should upgrade.... ;-) :-) ===On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >