Not much graphics chat on Talk Graphics any more

[Mark321]

Well, let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time, there was a young photographer who loved shooting on film. Then, one day, there was this new thing on the market, a camera that could take pictures without film, a digital camera. Of course the image quality was inferior to film and the young photographer would pooh-pooh this new technology. It would never be as good as film. In fact, while in college the young photographer wrote an essay in English class about how film was so much better than digital images and digital would never live up to the standards of film, mainly because film had been around for such a long time.

In the end, though, digital was here to stay. And it got better and better. Now, years later, that young photographer uses digital cameras all the time. A change of heart, maybe?
Well, in the end that photographer learned a very important lesson. The world moves on. It gets better and better. So, now, that young photographer is no longer young but he learned to embrace the changes that are destined to take place. He now thinks, "go with the flow or you'll get heart-broken often".

Now, that photographer is older and sees even newer technology on the horizon. Many professional photographers are scared of that new technology. But the technology is coming, no matter what. The new technology is called "mirrorless" cameras. And the old photographer has already bought one and couldn't be more happy while others are pooh-poohing it. He smiles because he has learned the lesson from long ago about embracing change instead of resisting it.

That photographer was me.

Embrace change. Don't let it get you down. If you'll embrace the changes of life, life will be so much easier. At least that's what this old photographer has learned.

Mark

[Fred C]

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[wizard509]

Well, let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time, there was a young photographer who loved shooting on film. Then, one day, there was this new thing on the market, a camera that could take pictures without film, a digital camera. Of course the image quality was inferior to film and the young photographer would pooh-pooh this new technology. It would never be as good as film. In fact, while in college the young photographer wrote an essay in English class about how film was so much better than digital images and digital would never live up to the standards of film, mainly because film had been around for such a long time.

In the end, though, digital was here to stay. And it got better and better. Now, years later, that young photographer uses digital cameras all the time. A change of heart, maybe?
Well, in the end that photographer learned a very important lesson. The world moves on. It gets better and better. So, now, that young photographer is no longer young but he learned to embrace the changes that are destined to take place. He now thinks, "go with the flow or you'll get heart-broken often".

Now, that photographer is older and sees even newer technology on the horizon. Many professional photographers are scared of that new technology. But the technology is coming, no matter what. The new technology is called "mirrorless" cameras. And the old photographer has already bought one and couldn't be more happy while others are pooh-poohing it. He smiles because he has learned the lesson from long ago about embracing change instead of resisting it.

That photographer was me.

Embrace change. Don't let it get you down. If you'll embrace the changes of life, life will be so much easier. At least that's what this old photographer has learned.

Mark

I liked that Mark.

[iamtheblues]

I liked that Mark.

Yes, a nicely written piece, Mark. But (well, you knew there would be a "But") it isn't that Xara has changed particularly, aside from adding Web Designer to the fold, which has had a knock-on effect on the change of emphasis that the forum has taken, and Xara has responded to this by placing its own emphasis (not surprisingly) on the web design elements of their applications to the detriment of the vector design tools in their Designer Pro package.
Some of us predicted that this would cause a knock-on effect to the TG forum and this has indeed been the case. It is also why many of us are bleating on about the lack of improvements to the vector and font tools in the Designer range.
Instead of being the fastest vector program on the market it is now aiming to be the Swiss Army Knife of the graphics world. I'm all for change in the name of progress, if that change means improvement, as in digital photography, but this is at the expense of improvements to the vector elements of the Designer Pro range and that's not progress, it has however resulted in stagnation of the developments to new vector tools and badly needed support to Open Type fonts, and that certainly isn't progress, but it is neglect.
It's the neglect that I and others are resisting, not change.
Bob.