Mark Alan Thomas

A credit monitoring membership which auto-renews and is difficult to quit?

If Adobe can lock you to a subscription, they won’t have to fix bugs, speed, and stability.

The Lr sheep don’t want to hear about Aperture.

You know how. You just want to argue about it. Do Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign look like Mac apps? Do they look like Windows apps? How about Lightroom? Does it look like a Mac app? Does it...

What’s wrong with a zombie thread? The OP may have lost interest, but the thread has taken on a life of its own.

By “custom UI” I just meant that Adobe writes the whole UI from scratch, bypassing Interface Builder, so nothing is native to the underlying OS. Even when an Adobe app appears to adopt OS X...

Photoshop and Lightroom aren't very good examples since they both use custom UIs which, at best, mimic native OS X behaviors (and usually don't even do that). They're neither Mac-like nor Mac OS...

I think he was being ironic.

In a spatial Finder/classic Mac OS sense, Pathfinder is even worse than OS X. It's a great app, but using it doesn't get you closer to the classic Mac functionality. It pushes you even further from...

Love it.

A neutral gray is better than black or white for gauging contrast and color.

Adults are nothing more than children who no longer have to behave.

The new Leica M has a CMOS sensor.

Strange. I’ve been using Aperture since version 1 and it never required me to have iPhoto installed.

Incidentally, I foolishly worry about some of this stuff too sometimes, but it doesn’t change the fact that these things are not important at all to good photography. I don’t recall saying anything...

Nevertheless….

Few who use Lightroom for HDR ever show restraint. Frankly, well-done HDR wouldn’t be HDR. It would be proper exposure.

All discussion threads are pointless.

Nothing wrong with postproduction, but you can’t compare an amateur using Lightroom to create tacky looking HDR with Ansel Adams who had taste and talent.

Your inclusion of HDR in there completely invalidates an otherwise ridiculous statement.