[LAU] bitwig announcement

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Jan 18 06:52:03 UTC 2012


On 01/17/2012 03:09 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:57 PM, david wrote:
>
>> And, finally, most pro graphic designers use Macs.
>
> I'm afraid you had spent quite a while under a shower of marketing
> bullshit before you posted that :) This is absolutely not true.
> Perhaps you are thinking in terms of western market, and even then --
> a special group of it.
>
> Apple indeed made some nice decisions oriented towards pro designers
> and prepress engineers (e.g. ColorSync), but even then they got some
> things terribly wrong (which has a lot to do with infancy of color
> management per se).

That's true, they were doing it on personal computers before anyone else.

>> programmer, fluent with the command line, etc.) IMHO, Microsoft ignores
>> graphic designers because in repeated (not-well-done efforts) they've been
>> unable to crack the market. Other competitors with much stronger Windows
>> graphics products than MS have barely been able to survive, let alone grow
>> (CorelDraw, Xara).
>
> Corel quitted the Mac market, because they weren't able to justify
> development with sales. Which, I'm sure, you are fully aware of.

Corel was never in the Mac graphics market. CorelDraw is Windows only.

WordPerfect was in the Mac market: their last version of WP for Mac was 
winning awards from Mac magazines of the time when WP dropped the Mac 
market.

>> move to Corel's HQ. Considering what Corel did with its other Linux products
>> (killed them), I may have to find a replacement for it. And the other RAW
>> processing software on Linux just is not feature competitive.
>
> Make sure you've had a look at darktable ;)

Just installed it from Sid repository (Ubuntu is an abomination). 
Darktable looks cute. I think it has about 10-20% of the features of 
Bibble 5. Maybe 40% of the features of Bibble Lite. The UI is cute. 
Absolutely no clue about how to save an image after you develop it: 
nothing in the UI indicates anything about it.

Will poke around at it some more, but not feeling particularly 
optimistic right now about it.

-- 
David
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