Digital BW, The Print

I save all of my files as layered Tiff's but if you aren't going to do anything else to the file then by all means flatten it to save space.  As Tiff is an international standard not a proprietory format there is no lock-in issue with this approach.  Theoretically DNG should be the same but it hasn't had universal buy in so far.
 
David Whistance
 

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 From: "bill.iverson@..." <bill.iverson@verizon.net>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013, 15:29
Subject: [Digital BW] RE: Photoshop Create Cloud program for photographers
  
 
   
 
Adobe has pretty much taken the price issue away for photographers who only want LR and Photoshop.  So that pretty much leaves the lock-in issue.  If I subscribe for 6 years but allow my subscription to lapse, how much of problem of (1) inaccessible or (2) uneditable files will I have for DNG's in LR or PSD's in Photoshop?  If there are problems, how do I protect myself?  By making flat TIFF's of everying I've edited?  I'd like to see some focused discussion of the lock-in issue and workarounds. (For extra credit, from someone who's scanning 100-year-old family pictures this morning, I'd like to see some discussion also of how to maximize that people will be able to access my pictures long after I and Adobe are gone).

Bill Iverson
 
--- In digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com, <CDTobie@...> wrote:
On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:53 AM, <jules50uk@...> wrote:
  
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> Lightroom is not included in CC and can still be bought separately and will continue to be. However the rest of the Suite is contained in CC. I am not happy about this as a small photographic business we only use PS and LR and none of the other packages and were quite happy to upgrade when we wanted to. I shall stick with CS6 as long as I can. Since we are not upgrading our cameras and have no need to we can still use the Raw converters that Adobe has provided. Hopefuly until we do change to newer cameras we will be ok. 
>If you don't like Adobe's new police please do fill in this form at Change.org  
Adobe has just announced a ten dollar per month Lightroom and Photoshop combination, specifically for photographers who could not justify the complete Creative Cloud bundle. Take a look:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/09/04/adobe-offering-photoshop-cc-and-lightroom-bundle-with-cloud-storage-for-10

C. David Tobie
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