Photo Editing Software
 

Hi,

Just wondered what the most popular Photo software was? is it still photoshop or are you people using something else?

Dave

Hi Dave, welcome to WPF - I think you will find that Photoshop is still the favourite, but there are many others out there, all of which have their fans.

Photoshop Elements 7 is very good value and does just about all you need it to unless you're a working pro.

PaintShop Pro 12 does a lot things that Photoshop Elements doesn't do, such as curves,Infra red simulation and more.

Still use Elements 6. I only do very basic stuff so it is more than enough for me.

I personally prefer Fireworks over Photoshop, i find it's features are easier to get to... But doesn't do a lot of things Photoshop does... Which is when i go and use Photoshop instead :P

Maybe when I get a better PC and an even better camera I might give photoshop a try....

At the moment I like to fiddle around with the excellent Picasa 3.0, it's free to download off the net.

Matt

Give GIMP a try, again a free download, I'm still finding my way around it but it's not bad once you get used to it.

http://www.gimp.org/

Being a novice, Not being to adept at using photshop. At the moment i use picasa as a kind of workflow. It is really good for organizing my photos and above all easy. Its also easy and quick to edit alot of images quickly as it has a smooth edit interface and a batch function. If i need to do stuff that picasa cant do, i open the image in elements 7, and do it there. Seems to work for me at the moment.

My PC is 6 years old XP machine with 2 mb RAM and handles Canon 7D files fine. As for a better camera is concerned a quick run through the basics in Elements makes a huge difference to the results from my 5 year old P&S camera onwards.

We just downloaded this and it didn't seem to want to work at all, swiftly removed it and now either looking at coral paintshop pro or elements 6!!

Think I'll continue with picassa and learn how to properly use my new camera before thinking about costly software upgrades!!!

Matt

I favour XN-view. Its a free download off the net. It is simple to use though it may be lacking in some of the features of Photoshop.
Then again I am only a beginer.

To be honest my old pc struggled a little with paintshop pro, but then that was the new version. Elements 7 runs fine.

oh also a handy little program if you are shooting in RAW is the preview extractor. it makes small preview jpegs from your raw files so you can review them without having to convert them straight away.

http://drchung.new21.net/previewextractor/

Hi Lee, just for info all RAW files have an embedded jpeg in them - for Canon users the free software that comes with the Camera (Zoombrowser or DPP) will not only give you a thumbnail of the RAW but also a full screen jpeg which you can view before conversion.

thanks roy, i use a nikon, is this the case with nikon too.?

Lee, Nikon would have the embedded jeg as that's what you see when you preview a RAW image in the Camera. I do not know anything about Nikon Software though.

Lee, if you install the Nikon raw codec for windows, you can view your raw files directly within windows without having to process them first.
http://nikonimglib.com/nefcodec/

oh ok....ill try that now thank you.