Crunch time
Sep. 14th, 2006 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumThe photo-editor is getting close to going out the door (this is a beta of the new release). That means the production issues are now paramount. Forget what the thing does, what matters now is getting the best descriptions of what we've figured out on paper, so the people who get copies to play with have some idea of what to spend time looking at.
This is the first time I've been pumping out this side of the copy. Straight up, I like the program. I think it's probably the best photo-editor I've worked with. I was slow to play with it (my father had been singing its praises, but it sounded more troublesome, and limited, than it was worth. I was wrong.
In the course of doing some fact checking it was interesting to see some of the response to earlier versions... the most interesting, and strangely consistent, was people who liked it, but wanted it to be converted from a stand-alone editor, to a PS/CS2 plug in.
Which shows how things become what they are; some of it is who gets in first, and some is intellectual inertia (which was some of why I was still working with the less effective program I was using before I got prodded to this, and then drafted into this project).
Because the first thing to say about this thing is, "it's a lot easier, and more intuitive, than Photoshop," so for people to immediately call for it to be shoehorned into PS... it amuses me. These days I use PS as not much more than a retouching tool, for cleaning up the spots caused by dust on my sensor. I'm really glad I didn't have to pay full-price for it.
Give me a couple of weeks and I'll be able to tell those of you who are interested, where to look to download a trial version.
This is the first time I've been pumping out this side of the copy. Straight up, I like the program. I think it's probably the best photo-editor I've worked with. I was slow to play with it (my father had been singing its praises, but it sounded more troublesome, and limited, than it was worth. I was wrong.
In the course of doing some fact checking it was interesting to see some of the response to earlier versions... the most interesting, and strangely consistent, was people who liked it, but wanted it to be converted from a stand-alone editor, to a PS/CS2 plug in.
Which shows how things become what they are; some of it is who gets in first, and some is intellectual inertia (which was some of why I was still working with the less effective program I was using before I got prodded to this, and then drafted into this project).
Because the first thing to say about this thing is, "it's a lot easier, and more intuitive, than Photoshop," so for people to immediately call for it to be shoehorned into PS... it amuses me. These days I use PS as not much more than a retouching tool, for cleaning up the spots caused by dust on my sensor. I'm really glad I didn't have to pay full-price for it.
Give me a couple of weeks and I'll be able to tell those of you who are interested, where to look to download a trial version.
