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Originally Posted by Fangtasia
... Photoshop is not the be all end all of programs available ...
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I did not say it was. What it is is a broadly recognized digital picture manipulation program. The name is in the process, if not already there, of being used as a verb; "I photoshopped it".
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... and to get into the high end manipulations you need the best of the best and yes you WILL pay for it... .
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Except that
Photoshop will run acceptably on an everyday machine. *LOL*, as you say.
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... A regular old machine would NOT run even the photo program i have properly *LOL* ...
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Hmm ... must have a very interesting Tec spec, eh?
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... Again you dont get it...regadless of magnitude analogue and digital are quite capable of being manipulated, and as such you cannot fully blame technology ...
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Actually, yes, I do. Having enjoyed b/w photography for many years (why b/w & not color? Because the shades of grey in b/w pics are easier to manipulate than color, which with it's color gradients can be essentially impossible to manage well), and having used Photoshop to revise my digital pics, I am passing familiar with both technologies.
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... Thats called progress ...
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I never said it wasn't. That doesn't mean I don't mourn the demise of an old friend.
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... there is much from the past that would have cost me the earth that is now far cheaper in now days ...
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That precipitous drop we all enjoy is due to the transition from analog to digital technologies.
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... If you use a free program, you get what you pay for, as i have stated previously ...
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I have found that one can do quite respectable work with some of the freebies. Windows Live Photo Gallery ships with Win7, is an example.
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... You want to do high end work you will require a high end program, and to have that you will pay $$$, no different to in the past... .
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You are mistaken. You can do quite remarkable photo massaging with Photoshop, and the list upgrade is $200.
Here is a pic (unretouched?) of a very old friend.