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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 169262" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>I'm confused how is it you're "keeping your fingers on the pulse of photo software" without knowing what products are available but, that aside, I think what digital photo editing application is best for someone should be based on what they need to do and where they need to go. Not everyone is busting to be a full time professional studio photographer. Not everyone works in RAW. And that's okay. And if you don't like learning software that's fine, some of us don't mind. Personally I'm semi-fluent in a few different applications of this nature which I find rather convenient.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Well I'm glad you feel comfortable in Lightroom. No one seems to be saying it's a bad option but it's certainly not the only option. Personally I've never had an issue with learning Photoshop. Yes it's a huge application but so what? I mean, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I'm not sure how Photoshop could manage to become the standard of the industry while being such a beast to learn; that just doesn't really make sense to me. What <em>does </em>make sense to me is that that concept gets passed on by people who have never really tried to learn Photoshop and once it gets repeated often enough it starts to take on a life of it's own. I'm curious what it is about Photoshop, specifically, that is so damn difficult?</p><p></p><p></p><p>As someone who runs a 64-bit OS let me assure you Adobe is not immune to issues with RAW codecs. Codecs are an unfortunate and apparently necessary evil, at least for now, and are all OEM based. Obsolescence, I hardly think is an issue when we have so many well established formats available. Do you really think TIFF is going to disappear overnight? Compare that to putting all your digital eggs in the basket of Adobe's DNG format which is, of course, supported solely by Adobe. And now suppose Adobe "bean counters" decide the DNG format isn't worth supporting any longer... You could argue it's not likely to happen, but you can't argue it could happen.</p><p></p><p>As for substitute applications see ACDsee Pro 6, Corel PaintShop Pro and/or Serif PhotoPlus.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 169262, member: 13090"] I'm confused how is it you're "keeping your fingers on the pulse of photo software" without knowing what products are available but, that aside, I think what digital photo editing application is best for someone should be based on what they need to do and where they need to go. Not everyone is busting to be a full time professional studio photographer. Not everyone works in RAW. And that's okay. And if you don't like learning software that's fine, some of us don't mind. Personally I'm semi-fluent in a few different applications of this nature which I find rather convenient. Well I'm glad you feel comfortable in Lightroom. No one seems to be saying it's a bad option but it's certainly not the only option. Personally I've never had an issue with learning Photoshop. Yes it's a huge application but so what? I mean, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I'm not sure how Photoshop could manage to become the standard of the industry while being such a beast to learn; that just doesn't really make sense to me. What [I]does [/I]make sense to me is that that concept gets passed on by people who have never really tried to learn Photoshop and once it gets repeated often enough it starts to take on a life of it's own. I'm curious what it is about Photoshop, specifically, that is so damn difficult? As someone who runs a 64-bit OS let me assure you Adobe is not immune to issues with RAW codecs. Codecs are an unfortunate and apparently necessary evil, at least for now, and are all OEM based. Obsolescence, I hardly think is an issue when we have so many well established formats available. Do you really think TIFF is going to disappear overnight? Compare that to putting all your digital eggs in the basket of Adobe's DNG format which is, of course, supported solely by Adobe. And now suppose Adobe "bean counters" decide the DNG format isn't worth supporting any longer... You could argue it's not likely to happen, but you can't argue it could happen. As for substitute applications see ACDsee Pro 6, Corel PaintShop Pro and/or Serif PhotoPlus. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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