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Hello Everyone!
Does anyone here recommend using “Adobe Photoshop Elements Version 15” for post-processing photos? If not, what editing software do you use/recommend?
Thanks for your insight!
Good question!
First off, do you plan to be editing RAW photos or JPEG only? If you are planning on doing only JPEGs, I would highly recommend GIMP, which is a free editng program. But if you are looking at Raw You will need something else.
Here is a link from the forms.
https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/elements-14-vs-lightroom-6/Thanks for your quick responses!
I do not have Elements 15 and haven’t used anything other than Picasa and my Nikon software…it sounds like Photoshop could be a little tricky for someone like me, who has zero experience with it. 😀 (The only reason I’m considering Elements 15 is because I found it for 50% off the original price.) I think I should try out GIMP though, since I edit JPEG’s – I’ll be looking into that!You’re welcome! There is quite a bit of info on GIMP already scattered across this forum, you should be able to find some pointers somewhere!
Here are a couple of links to get you started:
- https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/recommended-photo-editing-software/
- https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/gimp-vs-adobe-lightroom/
- https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/gimp-lenspiration-mr-quebec-problem/
- And a couple of tutorials that I have made: http://snowflake.nfshost.com/web/gimp-tutorial/basic-photo-touchup-gimp.html
Some of these posts have other links within them, so that should give you a pretty good start!
Of course, if you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask!
Well, I’ll need to read all of those posts! I’m sure they will be very helpful to answer many of my questions, but if I have any more, I’ll come first to the Lenspiration forum! I googled GIMP earlier today and can’t wait to start using it…(editing photos is so much fun 😀 )
Thanks again for your help – it’s greatly appreciated!
If you haven’t already downloaded it, here’s the link to do so: https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.8/windows/gimp-2.8.18-setup.exe
Always be sure to download from the original official source, (which in this case is: “https://download.gimp.org“) Don’t download it from “free-gimp-download.com”, or any other such shady site, unless you’re willing to take the risk of infecting your computer with things other than editing software. 🙂
Oh, thank you! I’ve not downloaded it yet, so I’ll use that link. 🙂 I sure wouldn’t want to risk getting a virus on our computer!
Amber,
Think about what your desires and goals are for your photography. Where do you want to be say a year from now? Since you’re just getting started with editing, I’d suggest you start out now learning what eventually you’re going to have to know if you stick with it. In the DSLR day we’re in now, photo editing has become essential to keep pace with the great photos being produced. JPEG editing is very limited. In a nutshell, your camera processor makes the vast majority of editing decisions for you when it creates the JPEG file, that’s why JPEG files are much smaller than raw ones, lots of data is dumped. If you want to keep going, I’d recommend you start off by learning LIGHTROOM and work with some raw files which makes so much sense for the beginning photographer since to get a great shot in JPEG, you need to take a great shot whereas if you get an alright shot rather than nothing with raw, you might be able to turn it into a great shot because there’s much more editing you can do. Hope this helps.Thank you for your reply! I guess I haven’t thought of it much, nor work with RAW photos, so I wouldn’t know much of the differences between JPEG and RAW. Now that you’ve opened my eyes to the major differences though, I’m going to start learning about it. Do you always shoot RAW photos? And would you recommend shooting JPEG or RAW for portraits?
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