On Nov 19, 2009, at 3:31 PM, William Robb wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Sessoms" > Subject: Re: one more update > > >> From: "William Robb" >>> A word to the wise: >>> CS4 is a little buggy on XP. >>> Prone to crashing for no apparent reason with some of the filters I use. >>> I'm actually back to CS3 for my portrait work because I can't use the >>> Portraiture filter with CS4 without the program crashing. >> >> I've got CS2 running on another computer with XP, no problems there. >> I'm running CS3 on this laptop with Vista, no problems here, although maxing >> out memory on this laptop (4GB) would help CS3 run a little faster. >> >> Memory is already maxed out (2GB) on the other computer. >> >> I sorta' figure to forgo CS4 and wait until CS5 comes out before upgrading. >> >> I hope there will be a CS5 and it won't all get subsumed into Lightroom. >> >> I haven't actually used lightroom. I have looked at it on friends computers, >> but every thing I've seen, read and looked at on other computers makes me >> believe it doesn't really meet my needs. >> >> Not a bad program, just doesn't do what I want to do as easily as Bridge and >> Photoshop already do. >> >> My basic take on Lightroom: >> >> Pros - It's got a database for organizing photos. >> You can do things without opening Photoshop >> >> Cons - That damn database. >> You can already do those things in Photoshop > > CS2 and CS3 are fine. CS4 is a little bitchy. > At the moment I could work without Lightroom, but I would prefer not to have > to, but I couldn't work without Photoshop. > Lightroom has pretty much taken over from bridge for me. > That damned database is damned useful. > I couldn't work without PhotoShop. I do fine organizing my files with bridge and keyword folders. Don't know if I could do better with Lightroom, but I'm okay with my current system. However, I do want to give lightroom a try. It might prove to be a better solution for batch processing.
In regard to CS4, I really like it. Never used two or three, I went straight from CS to CS4. But I love the clone tool that shows placement, and I'm pleased with the save for web function that allows retention of exif data. I also like the numerous photo filter options and the curves functions in the ACR converter. But I don't know how many of those things are available in CS3. Paul > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
