I would again encourage anyone looking at alternatives to investigate photoline. Setting "you-get-what-you-pay-for" interface issues aside, it appears to do literally everything I used Photoshop for, hi bit available, layers, masks, color managed, etc etc...
Tyler
---In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, <e.dinkla@...> wrote:
It could be a rough road I am heading for but I decided to skip the
Adobe offer and look for alternatives. Wonder what others think about
this move.
In short I have to learn RawTherapee. I use Qimage Ultimate as the base
for anything including filing and set the external image editor to Raw
Therapee. In many cases I can do the job from RAW/Tiff to print with
Qimage. If more control in RAW is needed I transfer the RAW to
RawTherapee. Do the job there and save a 16 bit Tiff back to the map
Qimage has open. If I need Photoshop CS 5.5 editing features I can
transfer the image to Photoshop with RawTherapee's external image editor
setting and save a 16 bit Tiff to Qimage's file map.
RawTherapee gives me Flat Field for RAW (bought Robin Meyer's
Equalight-3 a month ago :-( and has a good base for deconvolution
sharpening. Have to take Bart van der Wolf's optimising route in focus
compensation and focus/lens characterising for best quality. Lens
profiles from several sources are available that do not exist in
Qimage's RAW processing. The 96 bit development in RT is in my view
excellent for color control and geometric transformations. Both Qimage
rely on DCRAW and LCMS-2 so that may reduce surprises. I can run RT on
Windows and Ubuntu systems here.
For my own web/vector/sign/publishing needs I upgraded Xara Pro to its
latest incarnation Xara Designer Pro 9. The program I always went for
despite the installed Designer CS 5.5 package. Most what comes in from
Illustrator or InDesign is PDF and can go through either the Z3200-PS
route or get rasterized in Photoshop 5.5, the route I prefer to check
colors and avoid font issues.
--
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla
http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
December 2012: 500+ inkjet media paper white spectral plots.
Adobe offer and look for alternatives. Wonder what others think about
this move.
In short I have to learn RawTherapee. I use Qimage Ultimate as the base
for anything including filing and set the external image editor to Raw
Therapee. In many cases I can do the job from RAW/Tiff to print with
Qimage. If more control in RAW is needed I transfer the RAW to
RawTherapee. Do the job there and save a 16 bit Tiff back to the map
Qimage has open. If I need Photoshop CS 5.5 editing features I can
transfer the image to Photoshop with RawTherapee's external image editor
setting and save a 16 bit Tiff to Qimage's file map.
RawTherapee gives me Flat Field for RAW (bought Robin Meyer's
Equalight-3 a month ago :-( and has a good base for deconvolution
sharpening. Have to take Bart van der Wolf's optimising route in focus
compensation and focus/lens characterising for best quality. Lens
profiles from several sources are available that do not exist in
Qimage's RAW processing. The 96 bit development in RT is in my view
excellent for color control and geometric transformations. Both Qimage
rely on DCRAW and LCMS-2 so that may reduce surprises. I can run RT on
Windows and Ubuntu systems here.
For my own web/vector/sign/publishing needs I upgraded Xara Pro to its
latest incarnation Xara Designer Pro 9. The program I always went for
despite the installed Designer CS 5.5 package. Most what comes in from
Illustrator or InDesign is PDF and can go through either the Z3200-PS
route or get rasterized in Photoshop 5.5, the route I prefer to check
colors and avoid font issues.
--
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst Dinkla
http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
December 2012: 500+ inkjet media paper white spectral plots.