On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <godd...@me.com> wrote: > > This software and the subscription licensing model is really targeted at > business use, where the cost of these tools is a trivial part of the cost > of doing business. Hobbyists and occasional artists rarely have the need > for this stuff—there are plenty of less costly solutions that do the job > very well available.
Sadly not true for artists who use layers and do compositing (many do that, like adding textures), and artists and part-timers doing sophisticated retouching. That's many folks, like me. There are no packages out there that support the features needed for portrait retouching. Yes it _can_ be done (barely) with The Gimp and the like, but it's needlessly complicated and difficult. A 10 minute Ps retouch would become a 2 hour one on The Gimp for me. And the plan of converting projects to TIFF and back when cancelling CC and then later re-subscribing is not very workable. When you convert your project to TIFF you lose all the layers and internal state you had built up. I keep all my retouches in PSD form so I can return later, even years later, and do more work if necessary. Or examine how I did something. They are all "works in progress". On again off again CC won't work for me. -- -bmw -- 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.
