On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:42:40PM -0400, Sandy Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 6:04 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm still mystified by this. Why does someone with reasonable resources > > need a Linus based photo processing system? > > I have access to reasonable Linux machines, and not to any Windows boxes. > For most applications, Linux does everything I need, and in some areas it > is obviously, at least for my purposes, superior to Windows. Photo editing > may be the exception; that's what I'm trying to discover. > > > Do you believe that software developers arent't entitled to profit and > > some protection of their intellectual property? > > No, but I believe that for much software development, you get better > results with an open model, where people publish their work for > others to criticise and build on.
Well, there's nothing stopping people doing this with image software, either. But to date the results aren't thrilling - dcraw is nowhere near as good as Adobe Camera Raw, and GIMP is pitiful when compared to just about any of the Adobe image editing products. I think Lightroom and PhotoShop Elements are well worth the money. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
