On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 03:34 PM, Keith Whaley wrote:
Hi Dan, a couple of comments below...Which app are we talking about here, GraphicConverter? I'm pretty sure the man came on the disk Lemke sent me, but I don't remember it being nearly that big. And that was only...umm, cripes I keep forgetting it's my turn to be the geezer.
Have you ever down-loaded and reviewed the 237 page instruction manual
that comes with it? Most impressive ~ and I'm talking about image manipulation!
My comment on Graphic Converter is probably several years and many, many generations out of date.
But that 1/10th of 1% does about 100% of what I need it to. And learning Photoshop was both fun and frustrating in turn, not horrible though. I do regret the images I've left mangled on the wayside in the process. I suspect that a competent photographer would learn Photoshop more quickly than I did, as I was also trying to figure out what kind of things I wanted to do with it--knowledge I think most seasoned photographers would already have. They'd mainly be mapping familiar tasks to a new tool. (my theory, at any rate)The biggest part of the learning curve
for me was finally figuring out that 99.9 percent of what it can do is
stuff that completely messes up photos (for my purposes).<g> The
remaining 00.1 percent, however, makes all the difference in the world.
And, for the 1/10th of 1% that you actually use and enjoy, you're going thru all that sweat and tears? Nah, not me, thanks...
Dan Scott
