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Hey @rejoiceevermore,
Good to see an “old” friend from the family conferences 6-7 years ago!
My favorite part of photography is actually shooting the photos. I particularly enjoy capturing nature and landscape photos. I do not enjoy the editing side of photography as much
I agree. To me, capturing pictures is more exciting than editing them. But I understand that editing is still a crucial aspect of photography. Perhaps, I lack the patience to edit my photos.
Great to see you again on the forum! I had a glance at your recent blog post and really liked your use of graphs to illustrate picture quality settings and file size.
There are several basic, universal principles for photo editing that apply no matter whether you’re a Lightroom or Google Photos editor.
Editing seems to be pretty subjective to me, as different photographers may look at the same picture and suggest different ways of editing it. I guess these photographers would still adhere to certain underlying principles.
I made ~30 minute video tutorial on how to edit photos in RawTherapee.
It seems RawTherapee is a free photo-editing software. However, as I haven’t done much photo-editing (apart from GIMP), I’d like to know more about RawTherapee. Do pictures have to be taken in RAW mode to be used by this software? Can this software convert JPG photos to RAW mode? Thanks.