Crunch time
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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.
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Date: 2006-09-14 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-14 06:53 pm (UTC)The constant builds have, as to be expected, some glitches; since there are several major reworks.
More interesting to me is that some of the tools which have been hard to figure out how to explain are clearer to me know, from trying to explain other tools. The means I used to explain them, provided an aide to analysing the one giving me grief.
TK
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Date: 2006-09-15 04:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-15 04:53 am (UTC)Like I said, somewhere, other than for spot correction (which it does oddly, and as a side effect of a strange tool, not easy to use) I have abandoned PS/CS2.
This is, on pretty much all fronts, better, IMNHO.
TK
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Date: 2006-09-15 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-15 02:49 pm (UTC)>Here and here.
I'm not sure this, at present is the best thing for your workflow, if you are doing batch conversions to non-raw formats. If you are doing that, one at a time, then yes, I'd look at this.
What are you using right now?
TK
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:23 pm (UTC)I'm using a mix of applications right now. NikonView 6.2.7 for initial review and batch rename(I was using photoshop 7 for it but NikonView is a ligher application for renaming) and then using Polyview(www.polybytes.com) to resize and cull out what I don't wish to post.
I'm not averse to completely changing programs right now. I'm sitting right at the cusp of seriously changing how I do workflow, simply because I am not 100% happy with what I'm getting. I'd LIKE to be able to quickly tweak an image, apply some sharpening(One downside to the D200 is that the photographs are a bit softer than from the D1x, and my current workflow doesn't have me doing this at all), and then move on to the next photo. I had hopes for Nikon Capture NX, but it just wasn't clicking with me for some reason, and the reports of its poor handling of batch processing doesn't leave me all that enamored of it.
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Date: 2006-09-15 03:55 pm (UTC)TK