View Full Version : POLL: Which program do you use the most for Photo Editing?
Please explain why below.
I tried Photoshop. It has very complicate function, and some how, it's slow, and required huge memory space (I use 1G DDR though).
I think ACDsee has almost everything I need, and it's fast. Oh, the noise reduction ability of it is not as good as the Neat Image.
Anonymous
12-28-2003, 11:56 PM
I've been using Paint Shop Pro for several years. I have Photoshop but find it slow to load plus you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Photoshop of course!
why?
ive been using ps since 4.0
its wider used- more known
has alot of functionality i would miss by using anything else
Photoshop of course!
why?
ive been using ps since 4.0
its wider used- more known
has alot of functionality i would miss by using anything else
Btw, you have some great shots on the link of your sig.
ccplim
01-01-2004, 12:47 PM
I used photoshop once in awhile but am using Ulead photo impact most of thee time. I like the preview when you apply effects to a picture as they show 8 thumbnails with different settings for you to choose from.
You can also toggle between the before and after for any changes with just the click of a button before you decide on whether you want to apply the changes or not :)
TWYLYGHT
01-04-2004, 12:08 PM
I use old program called Micrografx Picture Publisher v8. It can no longer be found. I believe the last version was 10 but instesd of improving the softwear it bacame unuser friendy. I use PSP once in a while or Polyview bur, neither can come close to the Picture Publisher Softwear.
Verse914
01-04-2004, 2:41 PM
I use paint shop pro the most . I have Photoshop 7, but I dont use it much. Paint shop pro loads much faster than photoshop, and its simpler to use for minor things such as cropping and resizing.
nimbusv
01-06-2004, 5:40 PM
Photoshop, no doubt
Sheik Yerbouti
03-17-2004, 3:04 PM
PSP. Been using it a long time and well, to be honest, I don't get Photoshop. Too cumbersome and complicated for an old man like me to understand. [smilie=oops2.gif]
PSP. Been using it a long time and well, to be honest, I don't get Photoshop. Too cumbersome and complicated for an old man like me to understand. [smilie=oops2.gif]
Haha, got the same feeling here. [smilie=lol.gif] I learnt how to use PS, but, I found it's complicate and is way over my needs, not to mention PS drinks memory space and slow.
Gordeez
03-18-2004, 7:42 PM
I use The NEW Photoshop CS. [smilie=punk.gif]
I had the 6.0 and 7.0, Both were great, But ever since I got the CS,
It seems ALOT faster on My Mac compared to the 7.0.
loupgarou
03-18-2004, 8:49 PM
photoshop because of the raw support and layer mask, layers.
and because I never bothered to try C1
and photoshop extensions are readily available like neat image and focal blade.
and they work in 16 bit
ccplim
03-18-2004, 9:37 PM
photoshop because of the raw support and layer mask, layers.
and because I never bothered to try C1
and photoshop extensions are readily available like neat image and focal blade.
and they work in 16 bit
C1? What's that? [smilie=huh.gif]
Btw, did you saw my PM?
Makaze
04-27-2004, 5:41 PM
I use Photoshop 7 on a 1GH Pentium III w/ 512MB RAM. I've been using photoshop for a long time, so its the only photo editting program I know how to use, though I'm no expert or anything.
manfrotto
05-11-2004, 2:58 PM
I've been using Photoshop since v 4 and now I'm using PS 7 on Mac OS X. I've never found it to be difficult myself. In fact I am self taught on photoshop. I don't mean using books, I mean trial and error. I think it is more creatively flexible then most other programs (for photos that is).
Cichlid Lover
05-15-2004, 1:34 PM
If you are using any type of photo editing software, they arnt your pics anymore? I dont edit my photos, If they are bad, Ill take more...
manfrotto
05-19-2004, 10:37 AM
Then you'd better never have your pictures printed up anywhere either. Since every processor is going to yield slightly different colors, brightness, contrast. Plus you can force color shifts ISO and you can crop, rotate, burn, dodge, blur, etc etc in any darkroom.
Editing photos is nothing new and it does not make the photo any less yours. In fact it even makes it more so yours. Photography is about capturing an image the way that you saw it and the way you want others to see it. Whether you use a traditional or digital darkroom you are still creating what you saw through the viewfinder.
Not Done Yet
05-20-2004, 4:40 AM
PhotoImpression 3.0....*shrugs*...it came with a my camera....and I don't usually do much besides resize....or crop once in a while.....so it gets the job done...*shrugs*
I use three programs
PhaseOne Raw : raw conversion, curves et alii
Neat Image : noise reduction
Photoshop Elements: cropping, B&W conversions, ...
sugar
MsCichlid
02-01-2005, 6:54 PM
I have been using PS since it's inception. I still don't know how to use all the features except the most important ones...those that apply to digital photography. I have to use it for work anyway for the boring graphic art stuff.
paradise
02-01-2005, 7:09 PM
PhaseOne Raw : raw conversion, curves et alii
sugar
Hey, sugar, did you buy it from phase one? You got me interested, I looked at their site, it's a pretty expensive product. Gonna try the free version. Saw the tutorial and it looks amazing. I bet it's better than PS's built in support.
ladyjai
02-02-2005, 12:54 AM
photoshop. been using it since ver 3 and there is nothing else that even comes close, B-)
trigger
02-02-2005, 1:57 AM
and there is nothing else that even comes close
I can't afford photoshop, simple as that. PSP-9 is what I use and there is nothing I want/need to do PS can and PSP can't.
Peter
P H O T O S H O P - C S
played with just about all of them, i find ps the most user friendly. imagine that.
ladyjai
02-02-2005, 8:02 AM
peter, know any college students? :lol:I got the educational version of CS for a drastic discount. the only difference is what is on your start-up splash screen.
If you are using any type of photo editing software, they arnt your pics anymore? I dont edit my photos, If they are bad, Ill take more...
editing photos is not something that gets done to only bad photos. there's lots of uses for photoshop. yes i see a lot of photo hack jobs, overprocessed images etc... but post processing doesn't mean a photo is bad to begin with. if you don't have photo editing software how will you convert a digital image to black and white? is that morally wrong? when you shoot jpeg mode your camera itself post processes images(bit depth, color correction through white balance, sharpening, contrast)... how about shooting raw? i'd put money down that an overwhelming percentage of pros who use digital shoot in raw format. if you think for one second that pros don't post process than you're kidding yourself. people shoot raw because there is less loss through compression - which means more data to work with, and the "in camera" post processing does not take place. but something has to adjust the whitebalance, or the color etc. post processing is not a crime, and i for one find it necessary at least to some extent. if you're not willing to take advantages of todays technology, than that's cool with me. but try to keep an open mind. photo editing software was created for a reason.
Roy W.
02-02-2005, 8:57 AM
Elements.
It came free with a camera i had before, and its both easy to use and a powerful editing tool...
Molino
02-02-2005, 10:00 PM
I use photoshop CS. I would have been using an earlier version except I was able to buy the student version which like ladyjai said is a great deal.
It cost me a little over $300 Canadian and it came with Acrobat Proffesional, Go Live, Illustrator, ImageReady, Indesign and something called Acrobat Distiller. I don't think I even installed all the CDs. I'm not sure if there are any other programs, or if the other CD/s just have some additional features... Anyway it was a great deal :-D
clippo
02-04-2005, 7:13 AM
Not been doing this long, but I currently use corel photo-paint 9. Just using the image adjuster and noise filter at the moment really... still learning.
Sandi Candy
02-05-2005, 12:57 PM
Photoshop for me
Dracofish
02-14-2005, 4:15 AM
Definately Photoshop. There's pretty much nothing that can't be done with the program. I started off with 6, moved to 7, and am now using CS. I don't think I could survive without it...not until we can develop a camera sensor that is as sensitive as the human eye. Till that day, we will always need either a darkroom or a "digital darkroom" to replicate what we see, and there is none better than PS.
I saw a comment made earlier about image processing being bad. It most certainly is not. Sure, there are plenty of hack jobs out there and even some people trying to sell things dishonestly through modified images. But, the simple fact remains that there is no camera out there that can capture exactly what the human eye can see. Our rods and cones can pick up waaaay more tones than even the most sensitive camera. Because of this, we need to edit our photos either in the darkroom (if you're shooting film...yes, don't even try to say that film shooters don't use darkroom tricks...even Ansel Adams did) or with an editing program such as Photoshop. Through the use of editing programs we can make our pictures look more like what our eyes saw when we shot the picture. Haven't you ever composed a really awesome shot and wondered why the highlights are fine while the shadows are too dark or vice versa and look nothing like what they looked like to your eyes? That's because your camera can't see all those shadows and highlights at once like your eyes can. We have to do all that through editing...compose the shot properly for highlights and then bring out the shadows later through editing. Then there's the whole white balance issue with color temperatures. Our eyes unconsiously adjust for colors of light, something that a camera, once again, cannot do. Auto white balance settings only help so much and then it's up to the "digital darkroom" to fix. Then there's working with file types, as someone already said, that absolutely have to be refined in an imaging program. After I picked up my 20D I started shotting exclusively in RAW. With those files, I have to use a special imaging program before I can even open them up in Photoshop! Lastly, we can also use imaging programs to alter reality and make otherwise real shots into works of art (well, they are art to begin with, but you know where I'm going with this). There are so many awesome plug ins available to make everything from a simple spot light to crazy ethereal fairy dust! I've recently started a pretty comprehensive collection of plug ins and let me say, they're priceless!
Dracofish
02-14-2005, 4:30 AM
Hey, sugar, did you buy it from phase one? You got me interested, I looked at their site, it's a pretty expensive product. Gonna try the free version. Saw the tutorial and it looks amazing. I bet it's better than PS's built in support.
Ed, since I've gotten the 20D I shoot exclusively in RAW. Let me say that C1 Raw Workflow is an awesome program! I was lucky enough to score version 3.6 pro that works with my camera's files quite well. Much better than the program that came free with the camera.
paradise
02-26-2005, 9:52 PM
Mel, did you pony up the dough for it? It's a pricey piece. So far so good w/good ole PS 8. But I have the trial one of C1 and need to check it out.
Dracofish
03-04-2005, 10:03 PM
Mel, did you pony up the dough for it? It's a pricey piece. So far so good w/good ole PS 8. But I have the trial one of C1 and need to check it out.
Um, no comment, lol, but it is a full working version. :) The only thing I've noticed with it, which I'm sure is fixable somehow in the options menu, is that it automatically converts all the files to sRGB and .tif. I like to work with my files in Adobe RGB and as RAW (in the case of my camera, .CR2) up until the very end. I tried out the plug-in for CS and it does work very well with working side-by-side with the rest of the program and is very user friendly. It keeps the files as Adobe RGB (what I shoot in) and as .CR2 until I'm ready to save them as .tif. I then create an internet friendly version in sRGB, which unfortunately needs some tweakage to look like the Adobe RGB version, and save it as a .jpg.
elTwitcho
03-08-2005, 10:33 PM
Paint Shop Pro. Mostly because it can do all the things photoshop can, it's much cheaper and most importantly, it's what I learned on 7 or 8 years ago. I've been using it so long that I feel lost and helpless with photoshop.
Paint Shop Pro also does a pretty good job of handling RAW files as well, something I've just started shooting today.