The "killer feature" that pushed me to CC was the haze filter in Lightroom.
Yeah, I've seen the haze filter in LR...I thought that came first in LR6...is it really CC only?
It does work...but I believe that it is mostly a contrast control. I don't know for sure, but I think I read that somewhere and there is likely a way to de-haze with the other tools.
Hmm...that might just give me something fun to play with this weekend!!!
Logic Pro X is an EXCELLENT DAW, easily equal to or better than ProTools. Outside of the USA (curiously enough), it is quite well-represented. And even in the USA, since Macs own Pro Audio, most pro studios support Logic as well as ProTools.
And it isn't a Subscription model. $199 and its yours. Forever.
And if you do things live, MainStage3 is a spectacular package. I think it is like $30.
Ok thank you!!
This year, I'm upgrading my work station from the MBP late 2011 core i7 16GB ram...and getting an iMac Pro....
Awhile back, I went and applied at a local community college for the grad program. Mind you, I never enrolled or took a class. I paid about $25 application fee, and likely $35 or so for transcripts to be sent there. And I went and got my Student ID made...which has NO expiration date.
I now use this to get educational software and hardware.
When I get the iMac pro, I can also get the educational bundle they offer for $199 with Logic, FPCX (I already have this),, Motion, Compressor, and the MainStage, etc.....so, I think I'f go for it.
I really don't know music,..but I do own more guitars than I know chords...and awhile back, bought a midi keyboard..so, thinking I can plug in and maybe try to learn to do some simple things for my videos, etc.
LOL...yeah, awhile back, I thought if you bought enough equipment, you'd eventually sounds like Jimmy Page.
Apparently I missed the part about hard work and practicing...hahaha.
Then how do you explain adults (which I'll define here as "at least 25 years old") who are smokers? Who are aware of the enormous preponderance of incontrovertible medical and scientific evidence that smoking is among the worst things you can do to your health, and smoke anyway?
1. Because it is fun/pleasurable
2. They may be addicted and can't stop.
That pretty much sums it up I think.
I quit smoking last year. I was never a heavy smoker, maybe a half to pack a week...except for the weekends. If drinking, I could almost chain smoke a pack in a night.
That's the real time I miss smoking, it just is so much fun when drinking, especially in a bar with your friends that are smoking too.
And frankly, the only reason I quit, is that it started to physically hurt and bother me. I would get headaches after smoking (very noticeable if not drinking too)....and it would just make my whole body feel poorly.
It didn't used to do that..so, I quit.
I DO miss it when out drinking....but I'm over it and it isn't worth it, so, I"m staying quit.
The other time I miss it...was the workday smoke break. When I worked on site, it was a GREAT couple of breaks a day. If stuck on a problem, get up, down downstairs smoke one, and often I'd solve problems or have inspiration on my smoke break and run back in after.
Smoke breaks also were VERY social....I would often rub elbows with upper management on smoke breaks, which did help in my career at times.
Is it bad for you? Sure, but no one really thinks about that when you're young and in your teens-early 40's even. Hell, till you are about 39 you often still feel bullet proof.
But to keep from temptation, I avoid some of the bars I used to go to, with everyone smoking inside....if I catch a buzz, I'll want to bum a couple smokes which turns into buying a pack from the bartender that sells them behind the bar...etc.
But lung cancer just really never crosses your mind, when you're young, you're drinking a beer and chatting up a chick and you're both smoking.
The artists who have used PS for years will continue to use PS, because that's what they've been using forever. And new artists are trained on PS because "that's what everyone uses". Honestly, I'm not sure that the Adobe near-monopoly will ever be broken, or at least in the foreseeable future.
Well, the nice thing about Affinity, for the most part, it is laid out exactly like PS, with pretty much the same keyboard shortcuts...if you know PS, the AP is like working with the same old friend.
I checked their site but they don't mention OS support anywhere. The Affinity Photo article on Wikipedia says it only supports Mac OS, iOS and Windows 10.
That's a shame, since I use Windows 7. I guess I'll stick with PaintShop Pro.
but as someone who works at a studio, our internal pipeline is set up to work with these formats, they might need to import these files into other software that doesn't support Affinity Photo
Affinity Photo works just fine importing and exporting Adobe PS files (PSD, TIFF, etc).
What is missing at the moment (IMHO) is a good Lightroom replacement.
So far, I"m finding On1 RAW to be a pretty good candidate for LR replacement. The cataloging part is a little weak, BUT, the RAW processing and such is great. I really like the simple and luminosity masking you can do with it within the RAW development area....really cool stuff.
My biggest problem with GIMP (or at least the GIMP of four years ago) is that it feels just enough like Photoshop to get you feeling that it shouldn't be a problem to use. However, there's enough differences where, coming off of a decade of using Photoshop at work, you end up muttering "Ok, what is the damn shortcut for that function?"
Take a look at Affinity Photo...it is pretty much 99% there with PS and MUCH faster engine too. Reasonably priced and perpetual license.
They've also been going free updates for years now...
I've played with GIMP too, and while it has it's uses, it is missing some stuff, AND, like you said, if you're used to a PS workflow with keyboard shortcuts, etc...it is a PITA.
Affinity Photo is laid out almost identically to PS for the most part and you keyboard shortcuts are mostly all there too...you can remap the ones that aren't and off you go.
I"m still at the point to where I refuse to rent my software.
I love photoshop, lightroom and other Adobe products. However, at this point, I stopped at CS6 for the Adobe suite of tools.
I have LR5, and may try to go to LR6 while I believe I still can to get that last perpetual license, but that's it.
While Adobe has put out "some" upgrades and new features over these past few years of Creative Cloud, I frankly haven't found anything there to be groundbreaking, that I cannot work without. IMHO, the adage that if they don't have incentive to innovate (due to steady income stream no matter what) they won't. And I don't see that they have really.
ON the other hand, it may be that things like Photoshop and Designer, AI, etc...have pretty much for the most part hit the wall on what you can do....and there isn't much room left for improvement for completely NEW features.
If that's the case, then if nothing else, Adobe should try going in and rewriting the engines behind the scenes, but you don't see that either.
One nice thing about the Adobe CC rental thing is, it has spurred on other companies to try to fill that void, and there are a number of them that are.
So far as a PS replacement, I'm enjoying Affinity Photo. It is damned fast, their engine work blows Adobe away. And for functionality, well, I'd say it is about 98-99% there. My only gripe is they need to emulate PS in that when you have the brush tool, you need to have the keyboard command to allow quick sampling of colors with the brush on the image. Other than that, the healing, cloning and content aware tools are JUST as good as Adobes from what I've seen so far. And I think with some extra time, it may equal or surpass PS. It is reasonably priced for a perpetual license, and they've been doing a LOT of updates for free since I bought it a couple years ago.
Affinity has a designer app and I belive a Publisher app coming out....windows and mac.
For a lightroom replacement, I'm playing with On1 RAW...it is very good so far, I do miss some of the LR cataloging, but On1 appears to be adding those options. I like that it has in the RAW development area, simple and luminosity masking...something you have to drop out of raw imaging processing from LR and got to PS for on the Adobe side.. And again...very quick and responsive engine.
And for video...well, the free version of Black magic's Davinci Resolve....well known and respected for its color grading capabilities, now has a very respectable e NLE inside, and they're adding some impressing sound tools too. Premier? Well....it has competition. I also like FCPX too, but since it is so different and Mac only, I won't put that one up there right now.
Adobe After Effects? Well, now I love me some AE. I also have some 3rd party filters for AE from Red Giant and Video Copilot I enjoy using....so far, that one is the hardest to find a replacement for, but it appears that Blackmagic Fusion may be a real contender there.
So, there are alternatives....may take a little retraining, but then again, not that much. The PS alternatives often have pretty much the same layout of tools and keyboard shortcuts. A NLE for the most part is a NLE with some minor differences...
So, if nothing else, with Adobe going rental, it has put forth incentive for other companies to come along and truly compete.
So far, I'm voting with my wallet....I encourage anyone that can to also do so.
And I do this through a business....so, those that think the rental model is great for a business write off......I'd rather write off purchases of something the company owns, and doesn't go vapor when you stop rent payment.
Women went to work because the household in which they were housewives wasn't sustainable on the husband's salary in around 1970s at least in the USA.
I grew up in the 70's and that simply is NOT true.
Most everyone I know grew up with their moms at home during formative years and didn't usually start working till kids were teens or near teens and could take care of themselves at home after school or during summers while both parents worked.
And even then, that was dual income not of necessity, but to have some nicer things.
But those early years...THOSE are the important ones to have a parent at home with kids, to read to them, stimulate their brains, give them some "home training"....
Or maybe all the men could start staying home to raise kids?
Well, they keep saying men make more $$ than women, so...if that's true (and likely long ago it used to be), then wouldn't it be smarter to have the man work and the wife keep the home?
If you want the women to work at home, you need to pay them for it in some way. Today even with two incomes most families are poorer than their parents were with one income.
Well, a lot of the reason for that being "poorer", is today everyone is trying to keep up with the Joneses.
My parents and most of my friends' parents, had to sacrifice things to have one income and make it...we didn't have a tv in every room, we didn't have the latest and greatest cars or anything else.
People need to go back and figure what's important and if you're going to have a family, be prepared to put your development and acquisition of earthly possessions and luxuries aside till the kids are out of the house.
It can be done, it WAS done for many, many many generations.
While people (not just women, asshole) being able to stay home to spend more time with their kids would be a good outcome
I bought this up, specifically for women since the article said 57% of those displaced would be women, and women ARE traditionally, the home keepers and the ones that raise the child while the other mate works. This isn't being an asshole, this is referring to 1000's of years of how it has been, with this both parent working things being a fairly recent trend.
I do believe our kids would be acting better and be more education driven, etc. if they had home supervision in the formative years. We do see problems today that we didn't see in significant numbers when I was coming up as a child.
Fucking politeness is fashionable with young people. What the fuck do you want?
Where in the world do you live that you see youth polite???
Civility and respect for elders, etc has gone out the (to quote you) fucking window....you rarely get a thank you, or a you're welcome response when you do say thank you.
I'm not shy about 4-letter words myself, however, there is a time and place for them, and in general company or public is not the place to use it, and it would be nice if more people could do more than 3-4 words without dropping the F-bomb in general conversation.
Again, I'm not shy about language, but sheesh....try to learn some other words to use in "polite" company and situations.
People have been whining about "the problem with youth" at least since there have been written records, but it so happens that that's particularly stupid at the moment, assuming you live in any Western country.
Of course every generation complains some about the one after them....BUT in this case, we're seeing some very radical and troubling things.
We see VERY unmotivated youth, not willing to get out and search and compete for a job. Thinking things have to be just right and the job "means something"....when did this become a thing? The entitlement of the latest generation is really amazing. And in the US, I'm just shocked to see how little they value the rights and values many generations before them fought and at times, died for...and they're so willing to throw it out the window...to not be independent, and be willing to give all power to the government to care for them.
I'm amazed at how many young folks are actually out there in the US, pushing not only for true socialism (as the the utopian vision they have) but for down right communism. And..their refusal to accept that there ARE opposing voices out there that aren't the group think, and not only don't want to hear opposing viewpoints, but want to prevent them from even being expressed in public forums.
Yes, there are some radical problems with many of the youth we have now, that hasn't been seen before, and it is having a negative country wide effect.
Seems the author of that article assumed the audience would know who/what JP was? Guessing it is a computer company, but geez....at least leave a link to find out who this unknown company is.
Oh, I am sure you don't want a basic intelligence test to vote
Actually, ideally...I wish we could. Or at least restrict voting to those who pay actual taxes, so as to make sure that everyone that votes has some "skin in the game".
But doing so, could really lead to a slippery slope.
I'd be happy just making sure people are of some level of intelligence to be on social media, or even the greater internet.
Not meaning to sound elitist, but if you've ever spent ANY amount of time working directly with the general public, you quickly come to realize that 95% of them are fucked in the head, and you wonder if they are actually worth all the oxygen they are processing.
Yeah, and it isn't like the group "Common Sense Media" is a neutral organization at all either...that would likely be going from bad to worse if FB used them too.
If you see the worlds "Common Sense" on about anything these days....it is definitely a push for something for the hard left in the US.
I agree completely that there is no reason to batter their doors down with a ram.
At the VERY least, I hope this couple has lawyered up and are preparing to sue the living shit out of the PD and the city if not state and whomever else they can.
The authorities need to take a hit on this one and learn the lesson that not every "house call" demands SWAT type levels of entry and treatment of the residents.
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Yeah, I've seen the haze filter in LR...I thought that came first in LR6...is it really CC only?
It does work...but I believe that it is mostly a contrast control. I don't know for sure, but I think I read that somewhere and there is likely a way to de-haze with the other tools.
Hmm...that might just give me something fun to play with this weekend!!!
Nope...New Orleans area.
Why?
Ok thank you!!
This year, I'm upgrading my work station from the MBP late 2011 core i7 16GB ram...and getting an iMac Pro....
Awhile back, I went and applied at a local community college for the grad program. Mind you, I never enrolled or took a class. I paid about $25 application fee, and likely $35 or so for transcripts to be sent there. And I went and got my Student ID made...which has NO expiration date.
I now use this to get educational software and hardware.
When I get the iMac pro, I can also get the educational bundle they offer for $199 with Logic, FPCX (I already have this),, Motion, Compressor, and the MainStage, etc.....so, I think I'f go for it.
I really don't know music,..but I do own more guitars than I know chords...and awhile back, bought a midi keyboard..so, thinking I can plug in and maybe try to learn to do some simple things for my videos, etc.
LOL...yeah, awhile back, I thought if you bought enough equipment, you'd eventually sounds like Jimmy Page.
Apparently I missed the part about hard work and practicing...hahaha.
Anyway, again, thank you for the input!!
1. Because it is fun/pleasurable
2. They may be addicted and can't stop.
That pretty much sums it up I think.
I quit smoking last year. I was never a heavy smoker, maybe a half to pack a week...except for the weekends. If drinking, I could almost chain smoke a pack in a night.
That's the real time I miss smoking, it just is so much fun when drinking, especially in a bar with your friends that are smoking too.
And frankly, the only reason I quit, is that it started to physically hurt and bother me. I would get headaches after smoking (very noticeable if not drinking too)....and it would just make my whole body feel poorly.
It didn't used to do that..so, I quit.
I DO miss it when out drinking....but I'm over it and it isn't worth it, so, I"m staying quit.
The other time I miss it...was the workday smoke break. When I worked on site, it was a GREAT couple of breaks a day. If stuck on a problem, get up, down downstairs smoke one, and often I'd solve problems or have inspiration on my smoke break and run back in after.
Smoke breaks also were VERY social....I would often rub elbows with upper management on smoke breaks, which did help in my career at times.
Is it bad for you? Sure, but no one really thinks about that when you're young and in your teens-early 40's even. Hell, till you are about 39 you often still feel bullet proof.
But to keep from temptation, I avoid some of the bars I used to go to, with everyone smoking inside....if I catch a buzz, I'll want to bum a couple smokes which turns into buying a pack from the bartender that sells them behind the bar...etc.
But lung cancer just really never crosses your mind, when you're young, you're drinking a beer and chatting up a chick and you're both smoking.
No...but Bridge is a different application.
I currently use LR5 to bring my images in and work them before sending to PS or Affinity.
I'm also now evaluating On1 RAW to replace LR....to sort through images, develop...etc.....then send to Affinity for the heavy lifting needs.
Well, the nice thing about Affinity, for the most part, it is laid out exactly like PS, with pretty much the same keyboard shortcuts...if you know PS, the AP is like working with the same old friend.
Yeah, it is not easy to find, but here are the system requirements.
It looks like it will run Win 7 for you.
HTH.
What is your opinion of Logic Pro X in comparison to the other two tools?
Thank you!!
Affinity Photo works just fine importing and exporting Adobe PS files (PSD, TIFF, etc).
So far, I"m finding On1 RAW to be a pretty good candidate for LR replacement. The cataloging part is a little weak, BUT, the RAW processing and such is great. I really like the simple and luminosity masking you can do with it within the RAW development area....really cool stuff.
Give it a look.
Take a look at Affinity Photo...it is pretty much 99% there with PS and MUCH faster engine too. Reasonably priced and perpetual license.
They've also been going free updates for years now...
I've played with GIMP too, and while it has it's uses, it is missing some stuff, AND, like you said, if you're used to a PS workflow with keyboard shortcuts, etc...it is a PITA.
Affinity Photo is laid out almost identically to PS for the most part and you keyboard shortcuts are mostly all there too...you can remap the ones that aren't and off you go.
I love photoshop, lightroom and other Adobe products. However, at this point, I stopped at CS6 for the Adobe suite of tools.
I have LR5, and may try to go to LR6 while I believe I still can to get that last perpetual license, but that's it.
While Adobe has put out "some" upgrades and new features over these past few years of Creative Cloud, I frankly haven't found anything there to be groundbreaking, that I cannot work without. IMHO, the adage that if they don't have incentive to innovate (due to steady income stream no matter what) they won't. And I don't see that they have really.
ON the other hand, it may be that things like Photoshop and Designer, AI, etc...have pretty much for the most part hit the wall on what you can do....and there isn't much room left for improvement for completely NEW features.
If that's the case, then if nothing else, Adobe should try going in and rewriting the engines behind the scenes, but you don't see that either.
One nice thing about the Adobe CC rental thing is, it has spurred on other companies to try to fill that void, and there are a number of them that are.
So far as a PS replacement, I'm enjoying Affinity Photo . It is damned fast, their engine work blows Adobe away. And for functionality, well, I'd say it is about 98-99% there. My only gripe is they need to emulate PS in that when you have the brush tool, you need to have the keyboard command to allow quick sampling of colors with the brush on the image. Other than that, the healing, cloning and content aware tools are JUST as good as Adobes from what I've seen so far. And I think with some extra time, it may equal or surpass PS. It is reasonably priced for a perpetual license, and they've been doing a LOT of updates for free since I bought it a couple years ago.
Affinity has a designer app and I belive a Publisher app coming out....windows and mac.
For a lightroom replacement, I'm playing with On1 RAW ...it is very good so far, I do miss some of the LR cataloging, but On1 appears to be adding those options. I like that it has in the RAW development area, simple and luminosity masking...something you have to drop out of raw imaging processing from LR and got to PS for on the Adobe side.. And again...very quick and responsive engine.
And for video...well, the free version of Black magic's Davinci Resolve ....well known and respected for its color grading capabilities, now has a very respectable e NLE inside, and they're adding some impressing sound tools too. Premier? Well....it has competition. I also like FCPX too, but since it is so different and Mac only, I won't put that one up there right now.
Adobe After Effects? Well, now I love me some AE. I also have some 3rd party filters for AE from Red Giant and Video Copilot I enjoy using....so far, that one is the hardest to find a replacement for, but it appears that Blackmagic Fusion may be a real contender there.
So, there are alternatives....may take a little retraining, but then again, not that much. The PS alternatives often have pretty much the same layout of tools and keyboard shortcuts. A NLE for the most part is a NLE with some minor differences...
So, if nothing else, with Adobe going rental, it has put forth incentive for other companies to come along and truly compete.
So far, I'm voting with my wallet....I encourage anyone that can to also do so.
And I do this through a business....so, those that think the rental model is great for a business write off......I'd rather write off purchases of something the company owns, and doesn't go vapor when you stop rent payment.
You want those type of benefits...then, get a real job.
Well...the young US solar panel industry and the domestic workers they employ.
Domestic manufacturing *IS* a good thing and we need to work to keep as much of it as we can, we've lost waaaaay too much over the past few decades.
Ouch...!!!
The feminists are out in full force today....Troll for just saying what had been the norm until a couple decades or so ago....?
I grew up in the 70's and that simply is NOT true.
Most everyone I know grew up with their moms at home during formative years and didn't usually start working till kids were teens or near teens and could take care of themselves at home after school or during summers while both parents worked.
And even then, that was dual income not of necessity, but to have some nicer things.
But those early years...THOSE are the important ones to have a parent at home with kids, to read to them, stimulate their brains, give them some "home training"....
Well, they keep saying men make more $$ than women, so...if that's true (and likely long ago it used to be), then wouldn't it be smarter to have the man work and the wife keep the home?
Well, a lot of the reason for that being "poorer", is today everyone is trying to keep up with the Joneses.
My parents and most of my friends' parents, had to sacrifice things to have one income and make it...we didn't have a tv in every room, we didn't have the latest and greatest cars or anything else.
People need to go back and figure what's important and if you're going to have a family, be prepared to put your development and acquisition of earthly possessions and luxuries aside till the kids are out of the house.
It can be done, it WAS done for many, many many generations.
I bought this up, specifically for women since the article said 57% of those displaced would be women, and women ARE traditionally, the home keepers and the ones that raise the child while the other mate works. This isn't being an asshole, this is referring to 1000's of years of how it has been, with this both parent working things being a fairly recent trend.
I do believe our kids would be acting better and be more education driven, etc. if they had home supervision in the formative years. We do see problems today that we didn't see in significant numbers when I was coming up as a child.
Where in the world do you live that you see youth polite???
Civility and respect for elders, etc has gone out the (to quote you) fucking window....you rarely get a thank you, or a you're welcome response when you do say thank you.
I'm not shy about 4-letter words myself, however, there is a time and place for them, and in general company or public is not the place to use it, and it would be nice if more people could do more than 3-4 words without dropping the F-bomb in general conversation.
Again, I'm not shy about language, but sheesh....try to learn some other words to use in "polite" company and situations.
Of course every generation complains some about the one after them....BUT in this case, we're seeing some very radical and troubling things.
We see VERY unmotivated youth, not willing to get out and search and compete for a job. Thinking things have to be just right and the job "means something"....when did this become a thing? The entitlement of the latest generation is really amazing. And in the US, I'm just shocked to see how little they value the rights and values many generations before them fought and at times, died for...and they're so willing to throw it out the window...to not be independent, and be willing to give all power to the government to care for them.
I'm amazed at how many young folks are actually out there in the US, pushing not only for true socialism (as the the utopian vision they have) but for down right communism. And..their refusal to accept that there ARE opposing voices out there that aren't the group think, and not only don't want to hear opposing viewpoints, but want to prevent them from even being expressed in public forums.
Yes, there are some radical problems with many of the youth we have now, that hasn't been seen before, and it is having a negative country wide effect.
Maybe some of these women will start to consider staying home to raise kids again like they use to do....
We didn't have quite the problem with youth we do today when we had a parent at home raising the kids, at least in the formative years.
But what/who the fuck is JP?
Seems the author of that article assumed the audience would know who/what JP was? Guessing it is a computer company, but geez....at least leave a link to find out who this unknown company is.
Are they new? Where are they based?
I've never heard of them before...
Actually, ideally...I wish we could. Or at least restrict voting to those who pay actual taxes, so as to make sure that everyone that votes has some "skin in the game".
But doing so, could really lead to a slippery slope.
I'd be happy just making sure people are of some level of intelligence to be on social media, or even the greater internet.
Not meaning to sound elitist, but if you've ever spent ANY amount of time working directly with the general public, you quickly come to realize that 95% of them are fucked in the head, and you wonder if they are actually worth all the oxygen they are processing.
But I digress.
How about you require everyone to pass a basic intelligence evaluation before you can get on social media.
You know, like the little sign at the roller coast measuring height before riding?
"You much be this smart and capable of critical thinking before you can use Facebook."
Hell, let's just extrapolate this to the greater internet, sure would make things nice again, more like the early days.
If you see the worlds "Common Sense" on about anything these days....it is definitely a push for something for the hard left in the US.
At the VERY least, I hope this couple has lawyered up and are preparing to sue the living shit out of the PD and the city if not state and whomever else they can.
The authorities need to take a hit on this one and learn the lesson that not every "house call" demands SWAT type levels of entry and treatment of the residents.