I use an older version of Photoshop Elements, mostly because it was cheap and does what I need to do, because I try to do as little as possible. I'd much rather get the shot right in the camera than have to fix it later, but things I use it for are small exposure adjustments, cropping, resizing and sharpening.
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I subscribe to Adobe's $10 per month Photography plan. That gives me both Lightroom and Photoshop. For the most part Lightroom is all I need, but occasionally Photoshop is useful. I went this route because I find Adobe's suite of image processing software easy to use (Lightroom is awesome) and I have used photoshop for astrophotography back when I was heavily into that.
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#4246462 - 04/04/1605:34 PMRe: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos?
[Re: letterboy1]
I shoot everything in RAW so need to use a RAW converter. Like Paul Rix I also use Lightroom 6 (but purchased outright, rather than 'rented' from Adobe), and occasionally my old copy of Photoshop CS3 (but rarely - Lightroom does 98% of what I want to do).
#4246862 - 04/05/1607:37 PMRe: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos?
[Re: letterboy1]
I use ightroom to pull the files off my card and make folders for them and DXO Optics Pro 10 Elite most of the time for RAW conversion and sometimes Photo Ninja. DXO does a real good job on the big Sony.
Photoshop opens RAW files in "Camera RAW" first - are any of the above mentioned applications similar to this? "Camera RAW" to me seems to be a program that lets you make DSLR adjustments after the fact in case you misjudged at the time of your shoot. It seems to be more of a way to fix things before you "edit" things. I have Lightroom, but I am not yet sure I understand why I would use it if I have Photoshop.
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#4251891 - 04/22/1604:47 PMRe: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos?
[Re: letterboy1]
Photoshop opens RAW files in "Camera RAW" first - are any of the above mentioned applications similar to this? "Camera RAW" to me seems to be a program that lets you make DSLR adjustments after the fact in case you misjudged at the time of your shoot. It seems to be more of a way to fix things before you "edit" things. I have Lightroom, but I am not yet sure I understand why I would use it if I have Photoshop.
Lightroom is like working on a negative, you can make so many more changes to a photo to save it that can't do to a jpg
You can find tons of tutorials on youtube, friends who told me to get LR told me to look up this guy. Look at what he does with this image in LR4.
Again, I don't bother using RAW unless I'm doing landscapes or LE's where I need more fine tuning. All my air show shots or kids sports are just shot in jpg. Far too many shots to spend that much time in LR for each one.
#4251919 - 04/22/1606:03 PMRe: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos?
[Re: letterboy1]
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