Digital BW, The Print

Ernst, 

I, too, am not going the CC route unless new functionality is developed that I really need. My limitation to better photography is my vision rather than a new software program. 

PS6 and QImage provide more functionality than I currently need. I'll wait patiently to see what the future holds. 

Randy Bresee

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Ernst Dinkla <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
> 
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