Well not long ago I had a question about Photoshop. I just got a Canon 50D and low and behold CS2 wouldn't open the raw files. Looked and couldn't find a way to make Photoshop to open them, so I called Adobe. I would have understood if they told me that the 50D came out after CS2 and I would have to upgrade. I would have greatly appreciated an update that would allow CS2 to open the current files. They told me neither. Instead they just said we don't support CS2 anymore and I would have to ask someone else, ie not our problem so go away. I took that as Adobe telling me that I was indeed Number 1.
Now I am already on the Photoshop train an there really isn't a practical way off, but it will be a long time before I get Lightroom. I would hope someone at Adobe would read this and know that I think Adobe is Number 1 too and am going to keep my money in my pocket till I have to. Frankly an apology would be nice but that's dreaming.
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Subject: RE: Digital Asset Management options
From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, January 12, 2010 2:06 pm
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
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On Tue, January 12, 2010 13:23, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Which Corel product are you using? I am old school too, but a good
> capture even back in the day was just the start. From altering developing
> times, print exposure times, filter packs, ect most of the same things we
> do in digital post processing were done back in the day too. It just the
> photographer didn't always do them their self.
Back then, it was a major step for an amateur photographer to start doing
their own darkroom work (at least in B&W). And a part of all professional
training that I saw. Most labs did very little beyond straight prints,
though I believe if you paid "exhibition printing" prices and were a
frequent customer, you could end up with a personal relationship with the
person who printed your work. Some top artistic professionals cut out the
middleman by employing their own printers. I think they went from doing
their own printing, to hiring an employee to do it to their
specifications.
I hardly ever did split-filter printing (on variable-contrast paper).
Never made contrast masks (useful even in B&W, I hear tell).
And then there were extremes like dye-transfer color printing, if you
REALLY desperately wanted control (and amazing colors, and incredible
shadow detail, and great permanence). Never did that either, though I own
a number of dye-transfer prints of my friend Ctein's work.
This modern idea that you shouldn't post-process is amusing. I suspect it
of being an interesting combination of artistic rejection of some of the
extremes of Photoshop abuse, and ignorance of just how much alteration was
done in top-grade printing in a darkroom. Some people, I suppose, may
also use it to excuse their laziness.
> I have forgotten about Bibble, but the Thumbs plus looks promising too.
Hope you find something you like. I'm not, it sounds like, as anti-Adobe
as you, but I'm always willing to help somebody trying to avoid doing more
business with them.
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