In rec.photo.digital ransley <Mark_Ransley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2:55?pm, Chris Malcolm <c...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In rec.photo.digital ransley <Mark_Rans...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > When I used Picassa a year ago any editing I did was not automaticly
>> > recognised by any of my other photo edit programs.
>>
>> Of course not, because they're tem****ary and non-destructive edits
>> which can all be losslessly undone. All you have to do to get them
>> noticed by other editors is to save them, which is easily done either
>> on a single image by CTRL-s, or folder batcher by saving all edits at
>> once. Whichever you do, because that's the first editing stage which
>> introduces losses, Picasa helpfully archives an original unedited copy
>> to which you can always revert with a single keystroke, even if you go
>> on to do further edits with other editors.
>>
>> > Unless they have
>> > changed this you wont be happy when you open your photos in another
>> > program to do finer edits and maybe even printing. I spent days
>> > editing only to find I had to do it all over, going to Picassa
sup****t
>> > group was no help as the answer I got last year was it would be alot
>> > of work to save changes that would be recognised by other programs, I
>> > dumped picassa
>>
>> And all because you couldn't be bothered to read the instructions
>> which explained how easy it was to do manually. In fact I applaud
>> Picasa's philosophy of not doing this automatically, and therefore
>> giving you the maximum degree of control over the very im****tant
>> distinction between lossless editing and lossy editing.
>>
>> I bet you haven't read your camera's manual either :-)
> I dont have to waste time with that extra "save" PRicasso step, which
> is a waste of time, for any other program I have, Corel, Adobe, Gimp,
> HP Canon, etc, they all interconnunicate. Its simply a waste of time
> to do somrthing "Special" because PRicasso is different. So I dumped
> free PRicasso since it wastes my time.
I'm very impressed that you are so busy earning so much money that the
time lost in making one extra keypress per image counts for so
much. I'm fortunate in being leisured enough to be able to choose my
editors based on features and perforamnce rather than number of
keypresses.
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Chris Malcolm cam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
[http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]
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