Comments on: Monday Morning Tip – 11/16/09 http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/2009/11/monday-morning-tip-111609 Digital Photography Lessons via Webinar Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:55:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dick http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/2009/11/monday-morning-tip-111609/comment-page-1#comment-504 Dick Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:44:17 +0000 http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/?p=2241#comment-504 Great analogy, a high performance version of Lightroom, makes sense. Thanks Great analogy, a high performance version of Lightroom, makes sense. Thanks

]]> By: Lee http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/2009/11/monday-morning-tip-111609/comment-page-1#comment-502 Lee Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:53 +0000 http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/?p=2241#comment-502 Hi Dick, Great observation and good question. Since I know you race your Porsche, let me couch it in those terms. Topaz Labs produces plug-ins which are like perfomance chips for your Porsche. Porsche engineers probably take a safer, more conservative design path while you may want more horsepower, torque and taller gears. You get that by replacing the ECM chip, changing gear ratios and otherwise "tweaking" your car. Some companies produce Actions. These are simply automated processes using tools already built into PS, PSE or LR. Actions can't do any more than you can but they're faster and someone has already figured out the step-by-step process. Plug-ins generally use their own algorithms and technologies so they're really stand-alone programs that have the necessary connections into PS, PSE or LR. I might write a more in-depth explanation for a future MMT. Thanks for asking. Hi Dick,
Great observation and good question. Since I know you race your Porsche, let me couch it in those terms.

Topaz Labs produces plug-ins which are like perfomance chips for your Porsche. Porsche engineers probably take a safer, more conservative design path while you may want more horsepower, torque and taller gears. You get that by replacing the ECM chip, changing gear ratios and otherwise “tweaking” your car.

Some companies produce Actions. These are simply automated processes using tools already built into PS, PSE or LR. Actions can’t do any more than you can but they’re faster and someone has already figured out the step-by-step process.

Plug-ins generally use their own algorithms and technologies so they’re really stand-alone programs that have the necessary connections into PS, PSE or LR.

I might write a more in-depth explanation for a future MMT. Thanks for asking.

]]> By: Dick http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/2009/11/monday-morning-tip-111609/comment-page-1#comment-501 Dick Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:18:52 +0000 http://www.thedigitalphotoguy.com/?p=2241#comment-501 Hi Lee, after viewing the Topaz Labs link that you provided, it doesn't seem to me that it would be any different than Adobe Lightroom, which I have/use. Is it & how does it differ? Thanks Hi Lee, after viewing the Topaz Labs link that you provided, it doesn’t seem to me that it would be any different than Adobe Lightroom, which I have/use. Is it & how does it differ?

Thanks

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