Where are the "I did the nasty with a androgynous marmoset" slash-fic book bundles that they love... Aren't they about due for one?
Blade posted about that on the last page. I think he's looking forward to one today.
The button up top that says bundles and the countdown timer makes it difficult to know what's new?
I didn't see this in yellow
Yes. If you haven't seen the old site, it was much easier to see a list of the current bundles before without all of the ridiculous Groupees-style menus and button-clicking.
And yet my T2i isn't included. The $1 tier is odd, but could correlate with the higher bundles if one owned one of those. Not sure the higher bundles are worth it though.
I'm actually curious about this one. I haven't been into photo editing for a couple decades, but Corel used to be one of the better brands for it. My daughter is interested in doing digital art with her new wacom and photo editing. Is this a good bundle? Doesn't have to be the best, but a good starting point at least. Considering the $15 tier.
The problem with this one is that the best application in it has gone to the same software-as-service model that Adobe is now doing, which is the ACDSee app. It's a good all-around replacement for something like Lightroom, but like Lightroom the only version available that is current is a subscription model where the software literally stops working after your sub elapses. I think this would be well worth the $25 if the ACDSee app were not a time-limited program.
I use CameraBag to add watermarks to photos with relative ease. The $1 tier software is just gimmicky crap no one is really going to seriously use. I've honestly never used a version of PSP, although I do have a fuzzy recollection that it was popular back in the day. At the moment, I'm using a combination of things for photo editing, mostly PhotoShop Elements 2018 and ON1 Camera Raw for some stuff; both of these are standalone applications that you just pay for once, sort of like how all software used to be.
Hm. Don't know whether those comments helped any, but those are my impressions.
So as someone whose main experience with photography is pointing his phone at his cat and making shutter noises with his mouth, can I assume from the reactions in this thread that this book bundle isn’t worth getting for a relative who’s actually into cameras?
The top tier is mostly filler, but if it's someone who's interested in photographic technique, the $8 tier looks decent. The $1 tier is, of course, mainly for someone who owns one of these specific cameras or is in the market for one. The manuals that actually come with cameras these days aren't that great. I had to buy a $37 book to learn how to use my newish Panasonic camera. Of course, as a kid fresh out of grad school, I quickly absorbed a lot about cameras and photography that I have long since forgotten, but that's the price of getting old.