I;ve h ad but a little experience with U point, in the Nikon software, which
is at best regrettable. It can be imprecise and confusing.
But I have a friend that loves it!
Bill Pearce
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From: "Fernando Gonzalez Gentile" <fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Recommendations for compact digital camera
>I was aware that it didn't look like something profitable to be learned
> to you.
> Somehow, I didn't catch the underlying reasoning: I was trying to follow
> Chuck and you then, and missed some points - the U-points perhaps :).
> Now that you've put it clearly and in short, I do understand better than
> when the discussion was dispersed among different posts and mixed with
> other discussions. *Now* I can put into perspective why did Chuck teach
> me a simple exercise using masks to make a portrait.
>
> Nik software guys advertise your point just the other way round: layers
> and masking are too complicated, why bother, here is our award winning
> soft.
>
> Well, I'm still not up on using masks and layers as Chuck or you or
> anyone else here might be - but maybe I will be, if I catch what's the
> whole thing about; and have the time to practice a little.
>
> Rest assured you had not lost your time repeating an explanation. It's
> much more clear for me now, Moose.
>
> :-)
>
> Fernando.
>
> Moose wrote:
>> I think you know I didn't like Viveza. I find the U-point approach far
>> too imprecise, with effects spilling over and/or not getting all of the
>> desired area. I seem to recall posting some examples where I thought it
>> did a much poorer job than simple PS tool applications? I disliked the
>> interface a lot too.
>>
>> It appears that this same technology is at the heart of Dfine. Some of
>> those on the DPreview retouching forum who liked Dfine seemed to do so
>> on the basis of U-point. I'm simply not interested in that part. I can
>> see where someone who isn't up on using layers and masking might find it
>> useful, but that's not me. :-)
>>
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Clear Boundary Moose
>>
>
>
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