Jul 25, 2008, 21:06
Share your favourites/dogs to help us pick/setup.
My own take:
Photoshop - very complex but very powerful program to edit photos, with some photo managment capabilities. Devote your life learning it and you will be rewarded in the next life. Expect the next life and the one after that to learn the use of the plug-ins which extend or refine the features of Photoshop. Experience with photoshop - weeks.
Highly Recommend if you are serious, well off or really commited and wish to produce a few great photos rather than many OK photos.
Lightroom - simple, intuitive and quite powerful given its simplicity. Used by many as a photo storage manager as well as a fairly powerful photo editor. Will produce decent photos on the first day. Do not like the indexing feature for organizing photos. My indexes often crash with loss of all changes, unless edited photos are exported. All editing features duplicated in Camera Raw component of Photoshop. Current version allows edits only on the photo as a whole. New edition to be released shortly contains capability to edit only parts of an image, a major advance over the current version. Experience with it - months to a year.
Highly recommendfor somebody not wishing to spend a lot of time postprocessing, not wishing to spend a long time learning the software,somebody on a tighter budget not wishing to invest in Photoshop (alkthough Lightroom is not cheap either), those that wish to process a lot of photos quickly, those that wish to dip their finger and learn basic stuff before learning Photoshop.
Autopano Pro Excellent panorama program, very fast in stiching large number of photos together, intuitive interface, default settings yield good results, there are no obvious signs of stiching on the finshed photos. Feature rich, if you wish to learn more. I have limitedexperience -stiched only a few photos. Recommended to me by a very experienced photographer and one of the administrators on PhotoSIG.
Highly recommended based on my limited experience.
I will post more if you guys contribute as well. Feel free to express your agreement or not. We could cut and paste individual comments and paste them as an article when everybody had a chance to contribute. Pavel
My own take:
Photoshop - very complex but very powerful program to edit photos, with some photo managment capabilities. Devote your life learning it and you will be rewarded in the next life. Expect the next life and the one after that to learn the use of the plug-ins which extend or refine the features of Photoshop. Experience with photoshop - weeks.
Highly Recommend if you are serious, well off or really commited and wish to produce a few great photos rather than many OK photos.
Lightroom - simple, intuitive and quite powerful given its simplicity. Used by many as a photo storage manager as well as a fairly powerful photo editor. Will produce decent photos on the first day. Do not like the indexing feature for organizing photos. My indexes often crash with loss of all changes, unless edited photos are exported. All editing features duplicated in Camera Raw component of Photoshop. Current version allows edits only on the photo as a whole. New edition to be released shortly contains capability to edit only parts of an image, a major advance over the current version. Experience with it - months to a year.
Highly recommendfor somebody not wishing to spend a lot of time postprocessing, not wishing to spend a long time learning the software,somebody on a tighter budget not wishing to invest in Photoshop (alkthough Lightroom is not cheap either), those that wish to process a lot of photos quickly, those that wish to dip their finger and learn basic stuff before learning Photoshop.
Autopano Pro Excellent panorama program, very fast in stiching large number of photos together, intuitive interface, default settings yield good results, there are no obvious signs of stiching on the finshed photos. Feature rich, if you wish to learn more. I have limitedexperience -stiched only a few photos. Recommended to me by a very experienced photographer and one of the administrators on PhotoSIG.
Highly recommended based on my limited experience.
I will post more if you guys contribute as well. Feel free to express your agreement or not. We could cut and paste individual comments and paste them as an article when everybody had a chance to contribute. Pavel
Please see my photos at http://mullerpavel.smugmug.com (fewer, better image quality, not updated lately)
or at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pavel_photophile2008/ (all photos)
