Google| Subject | Re: Any Minolta/Sony users using UFRaw and GIMP? |
| From | Floyd L. Davidson |
| Date | 04/08/2014 03:11 (04/07/2014 17:11) |
| Message-ID | <87zjjw62w3.fld@barrow.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | nospam |
| Followups | nospam (1h & 28m) |
nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>wrote:
nospamYou're ability to analyze text is as poor as your understanding of photography.
In article <874n247k80.fld@barrow.com>, Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@apaflo.com>wrote:nospamFloyd L. DavidsonnospamFloyd L. DavidsonnospamPeterNAlan BrowneFloyd L. Davidson
And as time goes on and the capability set of Photoshop increases more quickly than the Gimp's poor record of catching up ... well...
Tell us about how great it is to have only a choice between "bicubic sharper" and "bicubic smoother" for filters when resampling an image either down for the web or up for printing!
Are you talking about Photoshop CC? There are quit a few more choices. And there is PerfectResize, which has completely different algorithms.
keep in mind floyd has never used photoshop (and readily admits it).
According to nospam.
according to *you*.
I've never owned a copy myself. I have never had it on a computer at home. I have never "used" it in the sense that it was my normal editor.
thanks for confirming it.Floyd L. Davidsonnospam
Only you have ever said that I've never used it at all, in any way.
not just me. you said it yourself again, just now.
To you, alone.Floyd L. Davidsonnospam
And that is totally irrelevant anyway!
quite the opposite. it's very relevant.
if you haven't used photoshop then you don't know what it can and cannot do.I've never laced my food with cyanide. Yet I do know what that can do... You should try it?
But the fact is that yes I've used Photoshop, and using it is not how I know what it can do.
you might think you do, maybe from what you've read or heard from others, but each time you say something about it (or about mac or windows for that matter), it's clear you don't know.That seems to be your stock response to anyone for everything if they are not a Mac or Windows user. Sometimes there is a point to that, but it is poor logic on it's face.
Not true. The user can do whatever it allows. There is very little that it doesn't allow, but for those who have the needs and do understand the distinctions, what it doesn't allow is very significant.Floyd L. Davidsonnospam
If you don't know the difference between what happens when invoking a High Pass Sharpen as opposed to UnSharp Mask or Richardson-Lucy Deconvolutional Sharpen or Wavelet Sharpen, and instead think that Smart Sharpen is easy and does what you need... maybe you just don't know what actually is relevant!
none of that is relevant.
photoshop can do whatever a user wants and so can other apps.
Can you resample an image to 4 times its original size using a Mitchell filter, rather than whatever it is that "Smoother" means in "Bicubic Smoother"? Does it make any difference to you?
For that matter, when an image is resampled in PhotoShop is it first converted to unity gamma (i.e., 0.4545 as opposed to 2.2), or not?
the difference is the user experience in doing whatever it is. photoshop will do it with less hassle and in less time (and i've measured this by running both, something you have not done).Again you claim to know what others can or have done... Hilarious.
Photoshop can't do things I want done. That is true of GIMP also. Which is why I also use other editing tools. I'm more concerned about total compatibility than how well or even how fast any one program is for anyone else.
-- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
04/05/2014-
