Thanks, Bruce. I'll download the disc (came with the K20) and take your advice as to my approach. Mainly curious as I realize I'm not Geek enough to be unhappy with PE8. ;)
Jack --- On Mon, 1/18/10, Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bruce Dayton <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: SILKYPIX > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 10:49 AM > Hello Jack, > > I use it. Started with Capture One from Phase One - > it was good, but > a bit pricey. I tried Bibble and Lightroom and > settled on SilkyPix. > > For me, because of my ExpressDigital Darkroom software > working with > labs and online storefront, I found Lightroom to be too > much - it was > doing a lot of what I already had things in place > for. And the > penalty in speed to simply do raw conversions wasn't worth > it for me. > > These tools all work best when you use the workflow they > were > designed for. So you might first examine your general > workflow of > how you do your pictures and then look at each tool to see > how well > it fits what you do. > > As far as an editor goes, Silkypix is much like most raw > converters > where it doesn't offer control beyond the entire > image. So it is > used to set things up and convert from raw. If you > need to do > further editing on a smaller portion of the image, then > some other > editor would be employed. I think most raw converters > work this way. > I believe the latest Lightroom does have some more powerful > editing > on smaller portions of the image. > > The best approach is to examine your desired workflow, get > the trial > version of each product and see how it fits for you. > > -- > Best regards, > Bruce > > > Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:27:22 AM, you wrote: > > JD> Anyone using SILKYPIX (S-SW74)? Have an opinion as > to its competency as an editing tool? > JD> Am currently using PE8. > > JD> Thanks, > > JD> Jack > > > JD> > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
