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Re: [OM] Linux/PhotoShop question

Subject: Re: [OM] Linux/PhotoShop question
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:45:59 -0400
You're right.  My brain is not well in gear.  I hadn't thought about ACR
and I am critically dependent on it.  In particular, I would need ACR to
get past the 16 bit stage.  Only then am I willing to go to 8 bits which
is supposedly a limitation of GIMP.

I haven't investigated in much detail but I believe that CS5 has 
improved HDR support as well as image stacking which I hope is useful 
for DoF increase on macro.  But in any case, I don't have CS4 and 
upgrading to CS5 is no more expensive.  At this point I don't even 
remember what was in CS4 over CS3.

Chuck Norcutt


On 9/19/2010 5:25 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/19/2010 10:08 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Thanks.  Sounds like I should start by downloading the Windows
>> version of GIMP so I have some first hand information.
>
> I did that recently. It's way better than it was a few years ago. I
> can see how some people who use PS could find it meets their needs.
> It will depend a lot on what tools you use. I just couldn't see where
> it would do all I do in PS and could see a whole lot of time spent
> learning how to do the parts it could replace.
>
> BTW, I can't see much big improvement in CS5 over CS4. The big deal
> is supposed to be content aware healing and fill. So far, I haven't
> been impressed. The healing brush seems to me to work better the old
> way for many uses.
>
> We use ACR/PS in quite different ways. You use ACR pretty extensively
> for post, while I mostly do it in PS. What would you use for RAW
> conversion on Linux? There are RAW converters, but I'm not aware of
> anything with the range of functions you use in ACR.
>
> Moose
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