Well, I'm of the opinion that if I can avoid using Photoshop for
image adjustment, being as I start with a RAW file, then I've gotten
the best possible capture.
That's not to say that there aren't times when I must turn to
Photoshop to finish an image. Some dodging and burning is sometimes
inevitably necessary, and I prefer to use the crop tool in Photoshop
to correct my horizon but minimize the loss by fabricating sky or
water or even some more adventurous stuff at the edges than to
discard some of that in PS CS 2. In addition when I should have
taken the camera in for sensor cleaning before I went to the shoot
then I have to use Photoshop to clean up the dirt.
And I'm still using Photoshop to set up the IPTC info that's common
to a whole folder of images, but then batching the insertion of the
info in the browser.
My ideal would be to have a RAW converter that did not pass through
Photoshop on its way to the saved file. As I understand it, PS CS 1
is the closest. PS CS 2 has screwed around with the way the files
are batch processed from Bridge, and Lightroom also dumps the file
into Photoshop before it can be saved.
Maybe when I have the money for an MacIntel, I can find out what
Aperture actually does.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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