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#4245598 - 04/01/16 11:24 PM Do you have a software of choice for editing your digital photos?  
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Do you use Gimp or Photoshop? Or another flavor? If so, why? I am sure that there must be a lot of reasons. smile


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#4245667 - 04/02/16 04:14 AM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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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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#4245780 - 04/02/16 03:31 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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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 - 04/04/16 05:34 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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http://rawtherapee.com

As I wrote in the rather not-commented thread on here, a few topics down wink

It's free and comes with all the features I need for general overall editing (i.e.: not editing just parts of an image).

For more specific edits, I now make multiple full-frame edits with RT, and then use Photoshop CS2 to layer-mask the final result together.

#4246565 - 04/04/16 11:46 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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Interesting input as usual. Thanks everyone! smile


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#4246811 - 04/05/16 05:31 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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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 - 04/05/16 07:37 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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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.

#4248635 - 04/11/16 04:57 AM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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I use both GIMP and Photoshop. Both do what I need, especially automatic batch processing.


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#4251246 - 04/20/16 10:27 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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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 - 04/22/16 04:47 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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Originally Posted By: 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 - 04/22/16 06:03 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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Dang Top Gun, that was eye opening! Now I get it.


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#4253177 - 04/26/16 04:00 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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I plead guilty to some over-saturation, but I am really beginning to appreciate the use of Lightroom!



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#4253220 - 04/26/16 05:57 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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Free live course for Lightroom going on right now

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#4253280 - 04/26/16 09:24 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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Thanks Fracture. That guy is a wiz!


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#4255643 - 05/03/16 09:13 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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DXO Optics Pro 10 Elite does really well with a high DR sensor like the in the A7RII.

#4263898 - 05/25/16 08:05 PM Re: Do you have a software of choice for editing you digital photos? [Re: letterboy1]  
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that's a nice shot!


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