At 06:25 PM 9/25/2005, James B. Davis wrote:
Speaking of the Adobe Bridge and Adobe Raw converter. I recently had a
chance to install PSCS2 and check out the RAW conversion. I have been
using Capture One LE for some time now and all I can say is "Adobe Raw
sucks, C1 rocks."
I've been disappointed with the new Adobe Camera Raw and the
Bridge. The Raw converter isn't even as good as the free Rawshooter
Essentials, which is a great program if you don't use a Mac,
especially for the way it handles batch conversion. Adobe is still
way behind on this.
The Bridge is incredibly slow and not particularly flexible. It has
really odd behavior when generating thumbnails, like when they are
all there but it won't do anything because it says it's still
processing the images. I use Irfanview (once again, PC-only and
free) which goes through full-size Raw images in a folder faster than
the Bridge can deal with thumbnails. And you can go from the
full-size image (or the thumbnail view) to Photoshop faster than the
Bridge can.
I think Adobe really struck out on the new version of Photoshop,
these were the big "enhancements" and they do nothing for me since
there are better products out there for free.
Jeff Spirer
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