Photoshop vs. Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor

by http://www.flickr.com/photos/jack4spratt/

I write to humiliate myself. regarding how stupid I feel, for several aspects of my non-relationship, apprehension, incomprehension and applications impossible with Photoshop anything. Worse I’ve wasted $3,000.00 over several computer platforms, et cetera, for Adobe period.

Sagelight 48-bit Image Editor: to the rescue! There is a free version but be quick!
http://www.sagelighteditor.com/ you will want the $30 something version soon afterwards.

Were I Thomas Knoll, I’d either kill myself, or kill Rob Nelson, author of Sagelight. Tom, of course, is the genius behind Adobe, and Rob is stealing hubcaps & dumpster diving to survive. One is a genius in service of avarice and the other a servant to this poor old, once-upon-a-time, whatever that was, that stopped suddenly at age 65--43 years freelance for The New York Times; to name my first/last client; one amongst hundreds of other publications.

Sagelight taught me, and does, everything I need. With a single press of a radio button I can turn on or off Ron’s {text . . . maybe he can give us a voice-over?} insights telling me what to do and why. Otherwise I’d still be stumbling about in the darkness of chemical photography totally obsolescent.

Photoshop is a fetish like all the Hundreds of Thousands I wasted on equipment to “MAKE ME A GENIUS PHOTOGRAPHER!” Really, sincerely, it didn’t work, and can not do what takes years to grow. Of course I am more furious with myself now realizing the folly of my greed for being memorable to others, while ignoring my fear of being too stupid to live, or be loved; or even remotely memorable. Apparently Thomas Knoll, and the legions of other people getting rich attempting to teach my peers, of whom not one knows how to use, fully, or even partially, Photoshop.

I write with rancor since at my, nearly terminal, age in life, I cherish my years as teacher, critic and author of a column on photography. Consider it “dues” being paid, never required, for the loving attention of The Greats; Paul Caponigro, Aaron Siskind, Minor White, Harry Callahan, Gene Smith and Robert Frank. The latter not well known, personally, save for my being a photographer at all.

Of the two software engineers, I sing their praises, for their love of photography; from personal experience of their acquaintance. Both love photography as much, possibly more so than I? A teacher loves their students more than themselves; and are willing to be taught by them as well. For Ron Nelson I’d walk through Hell. For Thomas Knoll I’ll go nowhere ever again for him. Not one Lincoln penny, no more.