I love the square plugs, but where can I buy a square drill bit?

poster-Maggy

Welcome Chris, your models look nice, much nicer than your avatar

poster-Maggy

Full 360/180 panos from Photoshop?? Including Zenith, Nadir, HDR, Ghost removal and so on?
Never tried Hugin. Use Autopano Pro, Autostitch, Enblend, Smartblend, a little good old Panotools (Dersch is still my Van Nistelrooy) and a little PTGui.

poster-Maggy

@fletch said:

Hi Maggy! Long time no speak! How's our hero Van Nistelrooy doing?
I prefer PshopCS2 very very much to any free HDR workshop... but give it a shot.
I've been using Pshop since like v.1, so it's a bit easier for me.

van Nistelrooy is just doing what he does best, scoring.
Photoshop never had and probably will never have a user interface I can deal with
Photoshop never had and probably will never have a price tag I can deal with
And they try to serve too big a market, HDR is specialists stuff that HDR software handles best. Just like I've never seen a decent panorama stitched using no other software than Photoshop.
Professional photographers that I know, most of them do use Photoshop, but none can do without external programs and/or plugins that add up to the price of Photoshop. These same external programs and plugins function exactly the same in any .8b* compatible software.

poster-Maggy

Thanks Fletch, I took a look at PictureNaut before, when all there was (or all I could find) was a German beta. I CAN read German, more or less, but I really don't like it...
I've not yet tried the English version, still downloading, but it looks good on the site!

Now hoping for a camera with built in HDR...

poster-Maggy

There are many much cheaper HDR tools than CS2. And most of them have much more options for how to increase and use the increased dynamic range. Photomatix, ArtizenHDR, EasyHDR, Helicon Filter and FDRTools are some of them. I use Helicon for standard dynamic range improvement and Artizen for spetacular effects.

poster-Maggy

done

Maggy