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 p.3 #16 · Lightroom's new Enhance Details sample with Sony FE 50/1.4 ZA | |
I spent much of the afternoon trying the new Adobe enhance. On one photo, a wolf moving through winter grasses and snow, was made with a 6 MP Canon 10D and 400/2.8L IS and 2x. I had to crop it to about 4 MP to make a composition, center focusing point being what it was.
Enhance helped make a bigger potential print here. I feel like I could go to 24x36, and I am an experienced print maker and print seller, and have a salable result. Fur and eyes were just a enough better, noise was a bit lower and I believe part of that was due to enhance. Of course, what I was doing previously would get me a 20x30.
A couple of other photographs, seemingly similar, did not appear to have derived any great benefit from using enhance. I am not sure, at this point, why one would have worked better than the other.
What I am sure about is Adobe really could stand to improve some of the basics of their godforsaken software. Why can we not have a decent, intuitive file system. If Photoshop can show us thumbnails of recent work, even if the save is over 2 gigs, than why cannot Bridge show us thumbnails of the same images, even when they are over two gigs. Having that would make finding an image to work with would be easier. Much, much easier and save an hour or two a week. Or more, for some.
Why cannot Adobe take some time, say the next 2 or 3 years, to fix all of the things which work so poorly, such as save. Why should a save, with 4G plus multicore processors, take minutes? Why not be able to set a brush to black or white, then go to setting diameter or softness, and then go back to work on the image and still have a brush set, or the color set to the original tone. Why does brush need to mysteriously change to something like clone.
I keep spending money on the up-and-comers, but find none of them have delivered a product worth working with. And I have 25 years of working with PS invested, plus all of the money on upgrades and subscriptions. I used to be able to hack into PS and make changes. It is too complex anymore to do so for me. I am only a solo photographer in suburban MT, on my own, not a software engineer.
Damn, but I wish Adobe would quit trying to make some fancy sounding, marketing pleasing "upgrades" and make some real upgrades which actually helped those of us trying to make some decent work in a timely fashion without wasting hours of hour time in front of a computer. I would much rather spend my remaining time looking for some good light, a good subject and trying to talk my wife into believing I am worth my weight in 600/4 L iii's.
Rant over. This was a bad day dealing with PS. But there are too many bad days. There are times I wish there were some class action lawyer type gunning for Adobe for taking all of our money so much of these past years and delivering so little. And, yet, we have no other choice but to dance with the girl that brung us.
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This is on a Fuji RAF file.