Photogs: Those who take 'em and those who love 'em

[ButchEire]

Ummm, torrents?

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

I suppose I will need to break down and get Photoshop, but I don't want to.

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by ButchEire

Ummm, torrents?

Excuse my ignorance here but what is Torrents?

[ButchEire]

A way of downloading software.

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

Excuse my ignorance here but what is Torrents?

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by ButchEire

A way of downloading software.

Well my fear is that I will become less concerned about taking a good pic, which is an adrenaline rush for me and not interested in spending more time editing photos than I do taking them.

My other issue is that it's so expensive.

So how do you use Torrents?

[ButchEire]

I used to edit and it drove me nuts. I chose instead to become more adept at taking a good shot, the first time, using natural light.

You would download a program like utorrent and then locate a photoshop torrent file and let it run. TECHNICALLY, torrents are not illegal, although it is a grey area. Unlike direct full file download, torrents are packets of information that are extracted from hundreds of individual sources and put back together into a single program.

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

Well my fear is that I will become less concerned about taking a good pic, which is an adrenaline rush for me and not interested in spending more time editing photos than I do taking them.

My other issue is that it's so expensive.

So how do you use Torrents?

[girl_dee]

Originally Posted by ButchEire

I used to edit and it drove me nuts. I chose instead to become more adept at taking a good shot, the first time, using natural light.

You would download a program like utorrent and then locate a photoshop torrent file and let it run. TECHNICALLY, torrents are not illegal, although it is a grey area. Unlike direct full file download, torrents are packets of information that are extracted from hundreds of individual sources and put back together into a single program.

I have Frostwire, I've seen the Torrent option, but had no idea what it was for.

[ButchEire]

Torrents are really only useful if you have a high-speed internet connection and have a lot of time to leave the PC running (a day at the most). Another option is dhgate.

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

I have Frostwire, I've seen the Torrent option, but had no idea what it was for.

Originally Posted by Cajun_dee

I have Frostwire, I've seen the Torrent option, but had no idea what it was for.

iPhoto is pretty good nowadays Dee, especially for those that like to keep their photo editing actions fairly simple (like me). I like it handles RAW files now. I've heard good reports of Aperture
http://www.apple.com/aperture/

Originally Posted by ButchEire

Unless you have some keen interest in blowing up your pictures to a massive level, 5 megapixels is plenty. Keep in mind that you are comparing apples and oranges when talking about digital versus film. Digital is based on interpolation and is a very different medium than film. Even top of the line digital prints are not acceptable by National Geographic, who continues to only accept film-based images.

I'm not comparing apples with oranges. I'm not comparing digital to film in any way. I'm talking megapixels and digital only. My Nikon D100 is only 6MP...I've had large prints from it. Ex.Mrs.I is a fine art medium format photographer so I sorta 'get' the difference about how they look when compared

Originally Posted by ButchEire

Ummm, torrents?

Isn't that illegal?

[ButchEire]

Originally Posted by Incubus

I'm not comparing apples with oranges. I'm not comparing digital to film in any way. I'm talking megapixels and digital only. My Nikon D100 is only 6MP...I've had large prints from it. Ex.Mrs.I is a fine art medium format photographer so I sorta 'get' the difference about how they look when compared
HUGE difference, isn't it?


Isn't that illegal?

Um, not as such, no.

Originally Posted by ButchEire

Um, not as such, no.

I do believe downloading copyrighted material is actually illegal.