5/7/2023 0 Comments Macphun creative kit 2016![]() They make this sound like it’s something special to do that, but it really isn’t. Towards the end of each year, all the Adobe-wannabees start campaigning their upcoming “major” changes and selling their current product with a “free” update when they actually finish the next version. There's another recent trend that’s apparently taken full root. I can’t remember what the last version I used was (I think 5), but they’re up to 7 now. Alien Skin Exposure, which is now named Exposure Software Exposure, was a really nice raw converter and photo style editor that I’ve used at times because it has some very quick ways to get to unique looks. I can’t stay on top of every product, either, even if it does strap onto macOS just fine. ![]() Even for-profit products have a difficult time retaining money streams to fuel development (witness ON1 and Skylum asking for money in advance). Thus it's tough to rely upon open source products as a pro. ![]() That development team may be one person, or it may be a group of people who came together online at some point, but the developers' interests peak and wane. With no income to support it, open source freeware is updated at the whim of the (usually unpaid) development team. ![]() While a few examples-GIMP comes to mind-have managed a long, extended life, what I find happens with a lot of open source software is that it eventually gets sporadically updated, or gets updates that are problematic, or eventually dies a lingering death. So if a product is Windows only, I can’t recommend it because I haven’t used it, am not using it, and won’t be using it.Īnother category that I've tended to avoid over the years is open source freeware. There was a time when I had to be OS Agnostic, but I couldn’t sustain that with a one-person shop, so when I cut back the staff to just me, Windows had to go. I don’t do Windows any more, so products like ACDSee I no longer have any experience with. So obviously I like what their engineers can do for my images, I just don’t like the way they’ve handled breaking my workflow over and over. MacPhun renamed itself to Skylum and then stopped making the Creative Kit plug-ins, such as Intensify. I don’t like that, either.įunny thing is, I still use the old MacPhun Intensify plug-in. They keep announcing new products that you can get a discount on before you know what they are, too. I tried earlier versions of ON1 RAW and Skylum Luminar, didn’t find they added anything to my workflow, then at some point where the two companies kept pinging me for update fees or buying their new product which sounded a lot like their old one-I’m looking Skylum-ward as I write that-I just stopped sending them money. This is the category into which ON1 and Skylum now fall for me these days. I also can’t recommend future products ~). However, in doing so, I know my InBox is going to explode with “why didn’t you recommend X” emails, so let’s nip that in the bud right up front, shall we?įirst and foremost, I can’t recommend something I don’t have any experience with. Today I posted a set of software I can recommend in the Reviews/Books section of this site.
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