Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- Subject: Re: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:56:08 -0600
- Thread-topic: Apple/Adobe Imaging, DAM and Workflow
On 7/15/07 9:28 AM, "Bob Frost" wrote:
> Mike Chaney of QImage fame complains that Adobe doesn't publish details of
> .psd format any more, so QImage can't read them. Naughty Adobe!
Well you have to license PSD, but not Tiff so he should just write Tiff and
be done. There's NOTHING PSD brings to the party that you can't achieve in
Tiff (layers, compression etc). If you build the Tiff or PSD using backwards
compatibility (which is necessary if you want other older products to at the
very least, get to a flattened version), you'll actually find Tiff produces
a slightly smaller file.
> Anyhow, enough of this - I leave the last word to you. It's dog eat dog out
> there in the software world. ;)
My last word is its silly to encrypt the data, someone will hack it. The
concept of encrypting data that beings to me is wrong and I object to the
camera manufacturers doing it. By and large, all their software products
stink IMHO. They should work in making better hardware. Note too, those of
us that shoot raw are at the mercy of their lame support of both the
histogram, clipping and previews on the LCD which are generated from the
gamma corrected jpegs, not raw. I suspect they don't get it. Instead of
trying to encrypt the data or move away from an open raw standard, they
should be working to make the photographers job easier by actually showing
us the true data we are capturing, building metering that exposes properly
for the linear encoded raw data and building better lens for digital
capture.
The major camera manufacturers think they are in both the hardware and
software business which can be the kiss of death. Apple is one company that
so far, has done a good job, more or less of this fine balancing act. If the
camera manufacturers would be content providing good hardware solutions and
leave the software to those better at building solutions, we'd all be in a
better position.
Andrew Rodney
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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