On Feb 1, 2014, at 12:48 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This software and the subscription licensing model is really targeted at >> business use, where the cost of these tools is a trivial part of the cost >> of doing business. Hobbyists and occasional artists rarely have the need >> for this stuff—there are plenty of less costly solutions that do the job >> very well available. > > Sadly not true for artists who use layers and do compositing (many do > that, like adding textures), and artists and part-timers doing > sophisticated retouching. That's many folks, like me. There are no > packages out there that support the features needed for portrait > retouching. Yes it _can_ be done (barely) with The Gimp and the like, > but it's needlessly complicated and difficult. A 10 minute Ps retouch > would become a 2 hour one on The Gimp for me. I said "occasional artists". Career artists make a living from their work and the cost of doing business rules apply. That aside, GIMP is wretched. But GIMP is far from the only option. Corel Paintshop Pro does a very good job. Photoshop Elements is perpetual license and does 99% of what photographers do with Photoshop. Photo Matix, Pixelmator, etc etc, are all layered pixelmap editors with lots of capabilities and support. There are dozens out there. But if you really really must have Photoshop CS and the latest version, you have no choice but to suck it up and pay for the privilege. You do anyway if you buy a copy and then keep it updated properly with a perpetual license. > And the plan of converting projects to TIFF and back when cancelling > CC and then later re-subscribing is not very workable. When you > convert your project to TIFF you lose all the layers and internal > state you had built up. I keep all my retouches in PSD form so I can > return later, even years later, and do more work if necessary. Or > examine how I did something. They are all "works in progress". On > again off again CC won't work for me. I didn't say to convert to standards formats and back again. I said to convert to standards formats and archive the originals, should you ever need them to use with the original apps again. The standards format versions work fine for most other apps that you use them as components of a project with. BTW, TIFF supports layers. I haven't used PSD format since 2006, but I have a bunch of layered TIFFs that I use to produce my cards. It is the single use I have for Photoshop nowadays, really … I could dump PS entirely and recreate them in some other app, but until PS CS 5.1 stops working, I have no need to. G -- 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.
