I'll have to give it a try. I haven't done so in a long time, but I have the ilife 08 version. Paul
On Nov 27, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Nick David Wright wrote: > iPhoto has levels control just like Photoshop, though it doesn't allow > quite as fine control I think. It also does color temp. There's not > much else you need. > > > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Nov 27, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Nick David Wright wrote: >> >>> An image editor for me doesn't have to be fancy. I'm really, honestly, >>> mostly happy with iPhoto. >> >> It' not a matter of being fancy. It's about being able to control factors >> like midrange contrast, color temperature and those white and black points. >> While iPhoto is much better than it used to be, it can only limit you in >> comparison to even an inexpensive rendering tool like PhotoShop Elements. >> Paul >> >>> >>> But I've really come to like the curves control. And I miss unsharp >>> mask. iPhoto and Aperture only have "sharpen." >>> >>> I like the sound of that program called Pixelmator. >>> http://www.pixelmator.com/ Has anyone ever used it? >>> >>> Has everything I'd need. I would just have to upgrade my version of OSX. >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Some day soon I'll have to plunk down for a real photo editor. >>>>> Actually, I've been playing with a trial version of Aperture the last >>>>> couple days and I find I really like it. >>>> >>>> as an old prepress/Photoshop jockey, i've found Aperture 3 very much good >>>> enough for cataloging and rendering photos; i think Lightroom has the edge >>>> in some areas, but there's not enough difference for me to switch; but PSE >>>> is in some respects more of a "photo editor" than Aperture or Lightroom >>>> (the >>>> difference being rendering versus editing), depending on what you meant >>>> when >>>> you wrote that >>> >>> -- >>> ~Nick David Wright >>> http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > > > -- > ~Nick David Wright > http://www.nickdavidwright.net/ > > -- > 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.
