Hi Woody
Jono
As you well know, the Nik plug in's are for CS3 as well.
Of course - I wasn't implying anything else
I think there is a case to be made for simply "developing" the digital negative inside a good and fast raw converter (e.g. Raw Developer) and then bringing the really good files you want to work on into CS3 for the final edits. CS3 is still the most powerful selective editor on the market and with the advent of these new plug-ins e.g. Viveza, The Nik Suite, Alien Skin suite etc increasing in power every day. I may be wrong but i think that expecting to get the best raw conversions plus the edits in one program is a bit much to ask. I know that CS3 opens ACR 4.x and is a full featured raw converter but frankly I find C1 and Raw Developer better. So I choose my raw converter based on which is the best (IMHO!) and then on to processing.
Just my thoughts on the matter
Woody
I think we just think really differently about this - I've lived with the convert/touch up/create 4 different output files / catalogue workflow for several years, and I never want to go back there again.
Maybe it's epitomised by the fact that you decided to go medium format . . .and I decided not to. if I'm to be brutally honest with myself, perfection is not my aim . . . the best is the enemy of the good and all that.
I still feel that nobody cares if an image is technically perfect if it's interesting, and if it isn't interesting, nobody cares anyway!
For me, the difference between one converter and another, although significant, is never likely to be enough to change the mind of a viewer.
If I have an event, or a wedding, or a holiday, or whatever, and I've got 500 shots, I don't want to spend 250 hours processing them.
Aperture allows me to get the job done to a decent standard and onto the net or to a DVD or a book or printer within a few hours. If a particular shot needs something extra, then of course I have CS3 or Nik plugins or C1 or Bibble come to that. But to start from somewhere else . . . no thanks.
Everything's easier - backup, cataloguing, printing, websites - everything.
I think I'm just admitting to being a kludger!
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