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Although I have CS6 on the same computer, I instinctively use CS3 for all my editing. Not sure why??? Probably nothing more than the devil I know.
I am frustrated at the inability to use ACR, which I find acceptable for raw conversion (maybe I am easily pleasd?), when I upgrade camera bodies. But the requirement to buy complete editing software upgrades for the sake of a bolt on converter, I find insidious.
It even encourages me to improve my photography so people won't notice if I shoot it in jpeg.
TomOC wrote:
Eric wrote:
TomOC wrote:/quote]
Thanks for looking out for us Tom....keep on the searching.:thumbsup:
Eric-
I'm sort of fit to be tied over this whole thing. I've upgraded almost every version of PS with grudging attitudes over the increasingly restrictive licesnses and increasing prices with little improvement in the product...though there was always the new ACR codecs that I felt I really had no choice about.
Since I haven't been able to settle on just what I would do without PS, I went ahead and signed up for the $9.99 per month "upgrade." That price is good for one year (and I found out after the fact that it isn't really monthly but an annual committment paid monthly - don't' get me started.
In the meantime, I bit the bullet and purchased a copy of Capture One 7. I really have no idea yet if that can replace photoshop altogether. It does not work with all the plugins I have, but some of them work as a standalone, so that may not matter. Phase One says they are open to including plugins but seem to be mainly interested in plugins to work with tethered cameras than for post processing...we'll see.
Meanwhile, there is no question that there are options to PS. None seem to have it all in one package like PS but that may well change in the next year. I feel very little is improved in any way in CC over CS6. The shakey camera removal is a gimmick. The only change that is perhaps addictively useful is the ability to use ACR as a filter from within PS. That is really pretty cool and can be timesaving. The rest is really almost identical to CS6 PS.
So if I can get comfortable with a workflow that is smooth in converting raw either into CS 6 or get used to Capture one, I definitely will not be continuing my subscription to PS. Actually, at $9.99 I probably would but why irritate myself like that. If I can get off the adobe heroin, I will be better off
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Eric