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My mind is spinning after having read all those posts , all i knew about mac is that lay out artists use `em , `cause they`re the best for graphics , so I figured they`ve got t` be good for photo work , all I`ve got so far =
LR 3 .... Photoscape ( for the minox-leica m3 )... Kodak photodesk ( the Best developer for the slrN )
The great yellow father in Rochester , in his wisdom omitted perspective control in photodesk , a feature I often reach for , so I try t` export from photodesk to LR3 , and ran into problems ( I could n`t import ) I will try Robert`s approach.
BTW .. I tried to download LR 5 beta ,..I got the message to confirm my E-mail t` be correct , and I still have no idea if I`ve got LR 5 , as I can n`t find it on my computer
Vic, The way I see this is that both platforms can do the tasks. The Mac software for illustration and image editing most originated on the Mac and then migrated to the PC so the early adopters tended to be Mac based.
In most cases good artists don't make good techies, to use a PC for anything but the most basic tasks requires far more technical skill than to do the equivalent on a Mac. In the early days I saw the difference and hated getting my hands dirty delving into the inner workings of a PC operating system. A friend started an Apple dealership nearby and I just had to have one. That was 1988. I have built a few PC's over the years, but always got rid of them or they languish in the loft. I have lost count of the number of Mac's I have had, large and small.
The current i7 Mac mini I use is well good enough for all I need, small, quiet, fast and powerful. It processes video very fast compared with my old G5 water cooled tower which had 5 drives and 2, 2.7 Processors.
Sorry I can't help suggest where to find Lr5, it will probably be there it will be a ZIP file so if you do a search for a .zip from the last few days you should find it?
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Robert.