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Subject: [OM] Re: PhotoShop curiosity
From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:28:20 -0500
Jan (bytemesmiths) Steinman wrote:
<rant>I don't steal software, and I won't do business with any company
that treats me like a thief. Aperture does 85% of what I used to use
Photoshop for, and only requires a serial number keyed in on first
install. The extra 15% of stuff that I fire up Photoshop for just
isn't important enough for me to stay on their upgrade treadmill. At
last count, I've saved close to $1,000 in upgrade fees. I wonder if
the CSA counts me among the sales lost due to oppressive copy
protection, when they report all those gawd-awful statistics about how
the poor starving software companies are losing all sort of sales to
illegal use.</rant>


You and I must be twins seperated at birth--except my ponytail is on the
back of my head. ;)

FLAMES ON:

Frankly, I'm not sure that Photoshop really gives you that 15% more.  There
are other alternatives, including the most exellent Picture Window Pro and
GIMP to take care of those 15% tasks.  I was a Photoshop 1.0 user and then
jumped off of that bandwagon a few thousand dollars back.  Now Adobe has the
extreme audacity to seperate out features into different packages to get you
to spend even more.  No, folks, there is NOTHING cheeper about that scheme.

Adobe is the same as Microsoft in my book of evil companies.  Sure, they
have "given back" a smidge of things to the imaging community, but frankly,
not near enough and their generosity pales in comparison to the "satanic"
Microsoft.  Even their DNG format is a closed format (licensing may be free,
but it is NOT open) designed to control the imaging world--not to improve
our lives.  Want proof?

How about this:  You want to have DNG-able RAW files of the latest/greatest
camera?  Guess what--you have to BUY the latest Adobe raw converter.  This
raw converter is "free", right?  Nope, it comes bundled in with the latest
versions of editors, but is NOT backwards compatible to the earlier versions
of Photoshop or Elements.  That's right--that version of PS or PSE that you
bought which understood and worked with DNG?  Toast.  Junk.  Only good with
the cameras supported initially.

DNG is a very very cruel hoax foisted on the imaging community by a very
very greedy company that has lied to us by making people think that their
lives are better off supporting this dead-end, proprietary format.  This
"improved" RAW format isn't even compatible with itself!  There are TWO
versions of DNG raw files now.  And NIKON was evil because they stuck
proprietary information in the RAW header?  Good Grief!!!!

Personally, I have no desire to spend ANY money with that company and try to
avoid it at all costs.  Lightroom?  Please.  That slug of a program has
sucked us right again and onto another upgrade treadmill.

Long Live Open-Source!

FLAMES OFF:

Ken Norton
ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.zone-10.com


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