On 9/15/2018 11:52 AM, Jan Steinman wrote:
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Adobe wants to be Microsoft when they grow up. "Embrace, embellish, extinguish." Like the so-called
"open standard" for PDF that Adobe blew away with their very next release of Acrobat Reader. Now,
you MUST use Acrobat Reader to fill in most "open" PDF forms you download.
It's free, it works. That's bad how? (I just filled in some forms using it.)
At every step of the way, Adobe has sought to tighten control of the
Photoshop/Lightroom bloatware.
A different perspective: A sumo wrestler is bloated, compared to normal people, baseball players, soccer players, etc.
So too are football defensive linemen. And yet, if you want those jobs done, you need the 600 lb. gorilla*
I have tried all sorts of alternatives, RawTherapee, ON1, Topaz studio, PWP, C1, DxO, PhotoReactor, Lightroom, and
others the names of which I've forgotten. Some have particular parts that are useful, but none come close to PS for
sheer image editing power. One thing I've noticed about several of the more recent entries is that they are licensing
bit and pieces and stitching them together. So one gets the same, somewhat less than great results from different apps
for Raw conversion, distortion correction, etc.
How every one wants to give me an endless selection of canned "looks", drives
me crazy - until I go back to PS.
I'm not going to start Aunt Minnie at Left Tackle, and I'm not going to waste my time and energy on crap software. If
you like yours, enjoy it. Please don't try to convert me, and save your condescension for other targets. I think my
$10/mo is one of the great bargains.
I'm willing to bet that they now spend more software development resource in
protecting their assets than they do adding value for the user.
I just don't care. You, who don't use those products, are necessarily unaware of the continuous improvements in PS, both
in new tools and in improved ones. You and many others put PS and LR in the same category. I'm one of those outliers who
dislikes LR as an editor, and loves PS.
I don't do monopolies because, well, because they ARE monopolies! Should Apple
reach a dominant position in the computing market, I'll be looking for the
scrappy innovator, nipping at their heels.
Not dominant in their markets, but scrappy innovator? :-D Shirley you jest!
I use MacOS because 1) it's UNIX underneath,
And . . . ? So what? You have your own value system. I have a pen made from moose poop, that's beautiful and works well.
I don't care if my OS is built on moose poop, either, as long as it is stable and lets me do what I want.
and 2) I'm an outlier. I drive (and make fuel for) diesel engines.
My diesel won't work with your fuel. Ah, well.
I use ON 1 (et. al.) to edit photos. And I shoot Olympus. So I'm pretty
consistent in my inconsistency. :-)
A real nice thing about going with the #2 (or #3, or #4) player is that they are very
focused on compatibility. If Microsoft or Adobe wants to change something that will break
their users' workflow, they just say, "FU!" Whereas the players further down
the line MUST ensure that their users can get their photos in or out with minimum fuss.
In decades of use of PS, that has never happened to me. To what are you
referring?
You can even create your own lens profiles for ON1, using open-source software,
so easily-corrected flaws like CA, vignetting, and areal distortion are
automagically corrected. Lightroom doesn't do that.
Well, as I say above, you don't know much about the products you dis. LR does indeed do that. In the case of 4/3 and
µ4/3, it's just the same correction that Oly and Panny cameras and Raw conversion software apply.
I'm not so much a "fanboy" as I am an "anti-fan" boy. Subvert the dominant
paradigm!
Sorry Dood, look at brand values and market value - Apple IS a dominant
paradigm.
In the case of computers and photo tools, my motto is "What Works!"
Pragmatic Moose
* If only to control one's metaphors. :-)
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