Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I assume you jest! ACR is Adobe Camera Raw. Google it as "Adobe ACR" to get the full picture. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom > OK, so I guess Adobe are just bullshiitting here: > > http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/about/ > > And WTF is ACR? I know, it is some RAW conversion engine deep in the > bowels of both Photoshop and Lightroom. The beauty of it all is that I > don't have to care about it!!! All I have to worry about is whether the > picture is any good! That is how photography should be. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Photoshop is the great image cruncher with a half assed DB tacked on to >> act >> as a digital contact sheet. >> Lightroom is a great DB digital contact sheet with a half assed image >> cruncher tacked on. >> They are Apples and Oranges as the old LUG used to say. >> Or Apples and Pears as the French say better. >> >> The only mystery to me is the timing on the thing. >> I like most photographers and serious photo enthusiasts I know who went >> digital without waiting too long got Photoshop when they got their first >> digital camera. If not before. Actually many had Photoshop way before >> they >> even had their digital first camera. >> It was not a super easy program to learn but the weeks turn into months >> and >> before you know It you've got it at least so its doing what you need it >> to >> do for you. But next month you'd be better. >> By the way its a long way from Photoshop to Elements but most people in >> the >> 80's and 90's just got a copy of the real big boy Photoshop from a >> friend. >> Every kid had a copy. It was more popular than pin ball games or the >> jungle >> Jim. >> When you'd meet up with your photographer friends or talk to them you'd >> talk >> about the latest trick you'd learned on Photoshop. And how your early >> Epson >> prints were looking which paper you were using which setting. >> >> No So all of a sudden you supposedly don't need it. >> I can tell you I am very familiar with what ACR can do and its a start >> off >> point on image crouching. Not an end to itself. >> What you have learned on Photoshop this week? >> Every time I've put Photoshop aside and gotten distracted by other >> programs >> I've certainly had to pick it up again and make up for lost time. >> -- >> Mark R. >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >