Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]WTF does WTF mean? -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:39:57 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom > > I assume you jest! ACR is Adobe Camera Raw. Google it as "Adobe ACR" to > get the full picture. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 1:13 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] photoshop-vs-lightroom > > >> OK, so I guess Adobe are just bullshiitting here: >> >> http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshoplightroom/about/ >> >> And WTF is ACR? I know, it is some RAW conversion engine deep in the >> bowels of both Photoshop and Lightroom. The beauty of it all is that I >> don't have to care about it!!! All I have to worry about is whether the >> picture is any good! That is how photography should be. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu >> http://www.greatpix.eu >> http://www.nathanfoto.com >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >> >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >>> Photoshop is the great image cruncher with a half assed DB tacked on to >>> act >>> as a digital contact sheet. >>> Lightroom is a great DB digital contact sheet with a half assed image >>> cruncher tacked on. >>> They are Apples and Oranges as the old LUG used to say. >>> Or Apples and Pears as the French say better. >>> >>> The only mystery to me is the timing on the thing. >>> I like most photographers and serious photo enthusiasts I know who went >>> digital without waiting too long got Photoshop when they got their first >>> digital camera. If not before. Actually many had Photoshop way before >>> they >>> even had their digital first camera. >>> It was not a super easy program to learn but the weeks turn into months >>> and >>> before you know It you've got it at least so its doing what you need it >>> to >>> do for you. But next month you'd be better. >>> By the way its a long way from Photoshop to Elements but most people in >>> the >>> 80's and 90's just got a copy of the real big boy Photoshop from a >>> friend. >>> Every kid had a copy. It was more popular than pin ball games or the >>> jungle >>> Jim. >>> When you'd meet up with your photographer friends or talk to them you'd >>> talk >>> about the latest trick you'd learned on Photoshop. And how your early >>> Epson >>> prints were looking which paper you were using which setting. >>> >>> No So all of a sudden you supposedly don't need it. >>> I can tell you I am very familiar with what ACR can do and its a start >>> off >>> point on image crouching. Not an end to itself. >>> What you have learned on Photoshop this week? >>> Every time I've put Photoshop aside and gotten distracted by other >>> programs >>> I've certainly had to pick it up again and make up for lost time. >>> -- >>> Mark R. >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/ >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information