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  1. 8th January 2010, 10:04 AM #1
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    Photo editing software

    So what photo editing software is everyone using, I have been using Photo Shop 5 for a while now but feel that may be getting a bit long in the tooth. So I'm now looking for a change, is there any good free software available or do I just take a second mortgage on the house a buy the latest and greatest. I'm not a pro or serious photo editor but I do like to have a play. I know just like the Cannon / Nikon debate everyone has an opinion on the pro's and con's but your opinions are what I'm after.

    PS. it's Nikon all the way.
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  2. 8th January 2010, 10:13 AM #2
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    Photoshop Elements 8 isn't that expensive. You can download a free trial from Adobe.
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    Lightroom is good if your running a PC and Torrents
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    I was wondering about Lightroom. I haven't looked into it.
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    Stick with P/S 8 , Lightroom does not let you edit photos (like remove marks caused by a dirty sensor )

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    I'm using PSE7 which I find excellent, although the browser and its associated database is a pain.

    If you have a kid in school, uni, tafe, etc you can buy the educational version for <$200.00 online.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stew1236 View Post
    Stick with P/S 8 , Lightroom does not let you edit photos (like remove marks caused by a dirty sensor )

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    it lets you remove dust spots I have CS3 and lightroom and I can tell you I rarely use CS3

    But I guess its what you want out of a program...you see I'm not into cloning out stuff etc etc because I do my best to keep crap out of the photo in the first place, yes I know it can be unavoidable in some circumstances but there are others where it just makes you lazy.

    If your just looking for a program where you can play with colours, organise easily in a library, exposure, crop/magnify fix dust spots, use filters play with whiteblaance and have it all exported straight to photobucket, flicker twitter facebook and all those kinds of things than lightroom is a good program. The other good thing about lightroom is it is an EASY program and an EASY workflow to get your head around if you find it hard to work your way around programs such as PS......
    I can do stuff on PS it took me a long time as I'm self taught...I learnt how to use Lightroom in about 3hours
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    Irfanview is a capable program, and free.
    Very good for bulk resizing, renaming etc.
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    As DB says, it depends what you want to do.

    A lot of people don't need anything more than Paint.NET

    Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

    It has the advantage of being free and open source. You do need to download a few of the good plugins that people have written to make it really useful.

    It costs you nothing to have a look at it and there are plenty of good tutorials that will give you an idea of its capabilities.

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  10. 8th January 2010, 12:48 PM #10
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    To throw another one into the mix, Google Picasa is free and capable.


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