CS 2 is causing great concern among pros because it has incorporated
a Royalty Free licensing and searching module which is filled with
images from the two big stock houses (Getty and Corbis) and a few
others. This will greatly improve workflow for publishing houses and
advertising firms while possibly destroying the Rights Managed model
of image usage licensing. It may be the coffin nail in Rights
Managed licensing, and thus also the end of making a good living from
licensing stock photography in lifestyle and outdoor.
Among the largely amateurs on my Canon 10D list the massive
improvements in the File Browser, now called the Bridge, are cause
for great rejoicing. I find navigating the File Browser extremely
cumbersome, and keywording through it also somewhat clumsy, while its
features for preliminary image processing in conjunction with Adobe
Camera Raw are fabulous. With ACR there is no reason to shoot jpegs
at all.
Adobe could have introduced a few other improvements, like a really
excellent keywording system to facilitate their new RF search, but
they seem to have decided to leave that to the RF agencies and just
make it simple for buyers to locate well-keyworded images from them.
And of course, they could have formed partnerships with more than the
few agencies they have, although noone on my lists has any scoop
about how the current set of alliances were forged, or the terms of
them.
--
Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx
508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography
http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf/
