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Originally Posted by Paul Foxton
My girlfriend uses photoshop professionally in her job. She has had some quite serious problems with CS2, and finds it buggy.
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Paul, I can't get the CS2 Bridge function to work, I'm just wondering whether your girlfriend has the same problem.
Joan, I've been hesitating about talking about RAW because I'm still pretty new to it. It is a powerful program and my camera is such a huge advancement over my old camera that I feel like somebody who can't drive a stick shift who has just been handed the keys to a Mercedes SLR.* I keep telling myself, "all knowledge is gradual." What I do know is that the artists I know who are adept at shooting RAW take incredibly beautiful reference photos. But it is their intelligence, taste and their vision that sets up the reference photos to start with, and their skill at painting that results in a wonderful piece of art. I guess what I'm saying is that a painter doesn't need to have all this high end technology, it's just awfully nice to have around, except that of course it costs an arm and a leg**.
*Were this to happen, however, I would like to think I would figure it out pretty fast.
**This is an expression which has its origins in the portrait world, by the way - historically, painters charge more if they include an arm, and even more if they include an arm and a leg. I've probably posted this before on the Forum so I apologize if this is old news to anybody reading this.