Speaking of Steamhammers...and piledrivers, I am still using PSE3. I am
limited to adobe Camera Raw 3.6 (which I have installed)by PSE3. I have
not seen any picture processing tools in any of the subsequent PSE or
Camera Raw releases that warrant their purchase. It appears that the
subsequent Camera Raw releases have added newer cameras, but I can't
tell if any features or improvements have been added there and 3.6 opens
the .pef file anyway. Has anybody upgraded to a newer PSE version for a
tool or improvement?
My practice is to preserve the .PEF file and pass any corrections to PSE
which I save as .tif files or .jpg if I am putting them on the web.
Comments and suggestions are not only welcomed but solicited.
Cheers...It's April
John Graves
WA1JG
[email protected]
Bob W wrote:
> Anyway, here's a
better one. You need a steamhammer for your work which
involves driving
enormous piles into the ground. You also occasionally need
to tap a tack
into a piece of wood. You complain because the steam
piledriver is no good
at tapping little tacks into wood.
That's still wrong: Lightroom isn't anything as crude as a
piledriver.
No one would reasonably expect to be able to use a piledriver for
tapping little tacks. A reasonable photographer *would* like
to be able
to use a tool whose desirable features are raw conversion and image
optimization for... just raw conversion and image optimization.
These are just analogies, they're not meant to be taken literally. You don't
want me to get all literal all yo ass now, do you? The point I'm obviously
struggling to make is that the right tool for one job is not necessarily the
right tool for some other job, however similar they seem. It's largely a
matter of scale - a spreadsheet versus SAP for doing accounts perhaps. If
every software development organisation tried to please everyone all the
time, no software would ever get released, and if it did it would please
nobody - anybody with experience in software development should know that.
Lightroom was designed in consultation with an awful lot of professional
photographers to do a particular job. As far as I can see it would make a
good case study in how to develop software. But like any other project it
had a scope - limits on what it would and wouldn't do. They've issued it to
great acclaim, and made changes in response to market use and further
experience. No doubt they will continue to do so, adding useful functions,
which might include what you want, but complaining about it not being able
to do something that it has never claimed to do and was apparently not
designed to do is an exercise in futility.
Bob
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