My latest musings about photography

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
VicTek wrote:

Wayne J. Cosshall wrote:

Hi All,

I've posted a new column article, called "Why Do Some Fear Photoshop
and Others Think Digital Photography is Something Special?" to my
site at:
http://www.dimagemaker.com/specials/dimw.php

Cheers,

Wayne

My fear of Photoshop is what it may do to my wallet, so I'll stay
with PhotoPlus (and it's companion product PagePlus).
Dave Cohen


Yes, Photoshop does cause one's wallet to be overexposed g. There
are many photo-editing programs that are quite capable that cost a lot
less than PS. I imagine there are jobs that only PS can do well, but
as a hobbyist I've managed without it.


In many ways a hobbyist is *more* at risk there; we don't mostly have
the production rate, and hence the need for a really efficient workflow,
that professionals do. We can afford the luxury of hand-tuning each
exposure (just like we used to do in the darkroom).

Personally, I'm addicted to non-destructive editing, and hence
adjustment layers. Again, this is more an amateur problem in some ways
(and high-end professionals of some sorts). People doing wedding work,
say, will never look at a picture again after their first hit at it (if
they even consider hand-adjustment at all, with that kind of volume), so
doing destructive editing is fine. But I'm always going back to old
photos (I've re-edited scans of old negatives, so I've adjusted that
photo *at least* three times). Only Photoshop has adjustment layers,
that I know of. Sigh.


Ihear good things about gimp... and it's free!
application made for linux, it has many parralells to ps.

I have ps, so have not spent too much time with it, but a skim thru
themenus looked quite promising.

kosh