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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lkeigwin, post: 1302516, member: 30400&quot;]Lots of truth there, and great advice, brg5658. Nice tips about the freeware too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I spent most of my professional life, since the late &#039;70s, in LAN engineering and dealing with a wide number of workstations (interoperability was a big issue). I agree that PC&#039;s have done a lot of catching up with macs when it comes to creative arts. And you raise a good point about possible reasons for the perseverance of the mac.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s agree the end results can be achieved equally well. But it&#039;s my opinion that getting there is a lot easier on a mac even today, for reasons related to UI, app integration, and over all platform stability.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regardless, it&#039;s nice to have choices.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is actually a very appropriate topic for coin photography. Too many novices think the picture delivered by the camera is the final product, with the possible exception of manipulations to size, orientation, and cropping.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is very wrong. The real work begins when you load the image onto your computer. Adjustments are almost always needed (for exposure, contrast, white balance, color, saturation, shadows, highlights, glare, sharpness, etc.).</p><p><br /></p><p>This isn&#039;t cheating. The truth is cameras make their own programmed adjustments to images. It is the photographer&#039;s job to make the image as realistic as possible, generally (though maybe no always?).</p><p>Lance.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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