To Wylie
From rts2568

Everyones got to start somewhere Wylie, and I know a local 'Professional Photographer' who still uses Picasa as his editing tool, but then he, unlike you perhaps, takes care with his technique and composition so probably doesn't need too much post retouching. He nodoubt, unlike you, knows how to use Picasa, his camera equipment and other accessories, so he knows what he wants from Picasa and gets it to do it, like others with the likes of that very versatile editing software called GIMP; and others you'll find when you big head comes back to Earth.

Besides, you need to come out of your spaceship of fantasy and take a history lesson, Picassa didn't exist in the 70s, neither did Photoshop! Oh, and you may have missed out while you were out there amongst the stars, that we unfortunate Earthlings didn't have digital cameras in the 70s, nothing of any practical use anyway that I know of.

Drop your arrogant, self interested attitude and learn some empathy for other starters and strugglers on UHH. Given time, perhaps a hundred years or so you might be able to come up with something constructive and helpful in a practical way to help others. you might like to suggest for instance that learning to use their camera equipment better first, is far better than spending on overpriced, editing software. Oh no, you can't, its already been mentioned. Sorry about that, perhaps you can come with something else maybe? If you can find a thinnking cap that fits of course.

So where are your examples of camparrison of why Picasa is so undesirable, compared to the version of photoshop that you use. Now that just might help UHHers think just how much better it would be for them to change the bank they use, to a more generous one and just pop over to the Adobe platform.

Oh, just another point you need to become aware of. photoshop works on Windows systems just as well as it does on the twice as pricey Apple machines. I do agree with you though, the Macs are a better machine in some ways but not at the difference they charge for a relatively similar set up. In that they are a bit like Adobe's greedy marketing strategies.

The abominable pricing of Photoshop by Adobe is a very acrid turn off for many - just compare the prices of current Photoshop products around the World and explain to those who would like to have and use Photoshop, why Americans can buy for half the price of Autralians - as just one example. And, this is not to mention their turn off policy of upgrading - talk about a bright flashing light pointing to the like of Picasa and other free downloadables, or the large and increasing cheaper products. If Adobe stopped being so damn greedy and incompetant in their marketing, I'd suggest that the increasing majority of freebie and other cheaper editing products' users would soon switch to Photoshop with Adobe not losing any income either.

rts2568