Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark States about Lightroom: < ...photogs Photoshop is not such an easy thing to give up for a contact sheet program with a bunch of image processing sliders added on later. A very uninformed view of Lightroom vs Photoshop from someone who has probably never used it. Aram Langhans (Semi) Retired Science Teacher & Unemployed photographer ? ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.??? James D. Watson -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark at rabinergroup.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 1:05 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Anybody heard of Affinity! I do think the top photogs and serious amateurs who use Lightroom not just as a starting point but as a finishing point on all their image processing are not the same people who honed all their images in Photoshop since the early 1990's. To those photogs Photoshop is not such an easy thing to give up for a contact sheet program with a bunch of image processing sliders added on later. On 2/10/15 3:41 PM, "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote: > Only for Mac currently it seems. > While I do use the subscription arrangements for Photoshop and > Lightroom bundled together, Lightroom is still also available under > the traditional licensing arrangement (and of course bundled with many > Leica products that way). > I find now that I am only using Ps as an adjunct to LR, that is from > within LR developing module where I need specialised tools. I would > think that many photogs never use those though. > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > On 11 February 2015 at 06:21, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > >> Wow. I will certainly try it. I've been using Photoshop since 1990, >> and I absolutely love it, but I am very uneasy about their >> subscription model and Photoshop CC. If Affinity actually does what I need, I will try to switch. >> >> On 2/10/15 11:54am, Scott Gregory wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/first-real- >>> alternative-photoshop-launched-and-its-free-21514137 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/