Photo editing program

**p38arover** · 15th September 2007, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by camel_landy

Should have bought a Mac... That kind of stuff comes bundled with the OS.

M

Blowed if I can use a Mac. My wife keeps asking for help with hers and it's totally foreign to me. I can't work it out. Gimme Windows, I understand it.

Ron

**p38arover** · 15th September 2007, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I'll do all of these in batches also which makes processing 2000 holiday snaps very very quick.

Crikey!

My 22-yo daughter has been complaining that we have taken virtually no photos of her as she grew up - certainly very few in the past 15 years.

Ron

**WhiteD3** · 15th September 2007, 11:32 AM

Thanks Folks, appreciated the feedback.

**5teve** · 17th September 2007, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

Crikey!

My 22-yo daughter has been complaining that we have taken virtually no photos of her as she grew up - certainly very few in the past 15 years.

Ron

The beauty of digital... you only print the ones you want.. i try not to miss anything and 2000+ snaps is a regular occurance... i think in egypt we took an average of 400 - 500 a day! mind you we only printed enough to fill a 200 photo album

i used the gimp, but found it not too friendly, but didnt spend too long using it.

generally i dont process my photos at all (other than colour spaces done in CS2) but for cropping i use a small program (but not free) called photo elf!

no harm having them all installed and develop a workflow round them!

Thanks

Steve

**Rosco** · 18th September 2007, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

....... but since upgrading to Vista .......

Cheers.

**Quiggers** · 18th September 2007, 03:13 PM

Photoshop.

If you have a student handy, you can get it for the right price.

Easy to use once you get the hang of it.
And it's the programme used by the pros.

I wouldn't anything else.

GQ

**Bushie** · 18th September 2007, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Photoshop.

If you have a student handy, you can get it for the right price.

Easy to use once you get the hang of it.
And it's the programme used by the pros.

I wouldn't anything else.

GQ

$225

http://www.educationsoftware.com.au/product.php?id=384

Martyn

**dmdigital** · 18th September 2007, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by Bushie

$225

http://www.educationsoftware.com.au/product.php?id=384

Martyn

For that price you'll have to have a full-time student in a full bachelor degree course (for uni ones). Don't know if secondary schools students qualify either. This licencing is very tightly controlled and retailers can get in to serious trouble for breaching the student version licence.

The next level up is Academic pricing which is about $400 and you can be any sort of student to qualify

Both licences are still for the full version. Photoshop CS3 is very, very powerful unless you are seriously into photography, the Elements version (academic) is the best way to go. The other option to consider is Adobe Lightroom. If you use Nikon DSLR then I would also recommend Capture NX.

**WhiteD3** · 18th September 2007, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by Rosco

It wasn't by choice. Had to get my folks their first PC (they're both in their 70s) and it came with Vista, so I thought I'd put Vista on mine so I can answer their questions.

**WhiteD3** · 18th September 2007, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Quiggers

Photoshop.
GQ

I've got an 8 megapixel Konica that takes these humongous photos which are absolutely fantastic quality, etc. I really don't want to do anything else with them other than crop sections and save as, in various resolutions and sizes.

What I've found is many programs seem to struggle with 7MB jpegs, especially when they try to catalogue every bloody photo on my PC at startup, of which there's a thousand or so.

Infranview and Gimp seem to do what I want quite well.

Cheers.

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