Paul Cruchten
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Little poll... are u a windows or a mac user ?
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Jack Simpson
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ahblur
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Camera doesn't take photograph,
it takes images.
It is YOU,
who take Photographs.
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GMT+7
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Camera doesn't take photograph,
it takes images.
It is YOU,
who take Photographs.
sansalpeter
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I use picasa with a windowslaptop mostly for photomanagment.
I'm saving up for a new long lens, so no photoshop CS for me.
For postprocessing I use the GIMP (on Linux when windows can't cope the action).
It does wonderful colortoning !
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Peter
Pentax K10D, Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4.5, Tokina 35-300 mm f4,5-6,7 SD
I'm saving up for a new long lens, so no photoshop CS for me.
For postprocessing I use the GIMP (on Linux when windows can't cope the action).
It does wonderful colortoning !
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Peter
Pentax K10D, Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4.5, Tokina 35-300 mm f4,5-6,7 SD
UFRaw is a stand alone and a plugin for Gimp and it's open source, a lot of people like it. But it lacks work flow.
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kbarni
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You guys knew, the Lightzone Pro is free for Linux? ($250 for Win/Mac)
It's a perfect companion for the other two (Gimp/Ufraw), and almost equivalent of the Adobe Lightroom...(the effect masks are really awesome).
It's a perfect companion for the other two (Gimp/Ufraw), and almost equivalent of the Adobe Lightroom...(the effect masks are really awesome).
Pete226109
Forum Enthusiast
Mac all the way. Me, longtime user.
But my business partner, a longtime PC user switched last year. That was quite telling to me.
The initial reasons: Better color calibration out of the box, easier for us to deal with print houses on any print work, almost no viruses, no spyware. I use an iMac G5 20, he an iMac Intel Core2 duo 20. Both are great machines.
But once my friend got his machine, we discovered many other benefits: The bundled software such as iPhoto and iWeb are way more useful than you might think at first.
We used iPhoto alongside Photoshop to orgqanize and cull photos -- much easier than Photoshop alone (we are now migrating to Aperture alongside Photoshop. Aperture is a great program as well; really manages project and photos well and organizes things.)
iWeb builds great Web sites (poo poo it if you want, but the bottom line is that we are now maintaining and growing our site -- and our business, instead of watching mold grow) and iCal -- tied to DotMac -- has allowed us to integrate our wedding photography assignments, meetings, portrait shoots and sales calls into one convenient calendar we can access in iCal at home, or from anywhere (Mac or PC) in the world. It even sends appointment reminders.
Overall, very solid and stable. Bottom line: It lets us do our work with minimal intereference from the OS.
Good luck; you should love the new laptop. Just remember, Mac or PC: Just a tool; the photo begins with your vision.
Pete
But my business partner, a longtime PC user switched last year. That was quite telling to me.
The initial reasons: Better color calibration out of the box, easier for us to deal with print houses on any print work, almost no viruses, no spyware. I use an iMac G5 20, he an iMac Intel Core2 duo 20. Both are great machines.
But once my friend got his machine, we discovered many other benefits: The bundled software such as iPhoto and iWeb are way more useful than you might think at first.
We used iPhoto alongside Photoshop to orgqanize and cull photos -- much easier than Photoshop alone (we are now migrating to Aperture alongside Photoshop. Aperture is a great program as well; really manages project and photos well and organizes things.)
iWeb builds great Web sites (poo poo it if you want, but the bottom line is that we are now maintaining and growing our site -- and our business, instead of watching mold grow) and iCal -- tied to DotMac -- has allowed us to integrate our wedding photography assignments, meetings, portrait shoots and sales calls into one convenient calendar we can access in iCal at home, or from anywhere (Mac or PC) in the world. It even sends appointment reminders.
Overall, very solid and stable. Bottom line: It lets us do our work with minimal intereference from the OS.
Good luck; you should love the new laptop. Just remember, Mac or PC: Just a tool; the photo begins with your vision.
Pete
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