1) Luminar 4 - Improved to be even more intuitive, Luminar 4 also brings a ton of brand-new AI editing tools designed to speed up the photo editing workflow.Hi. My name is Mike, and I'm fairly new to photography. I was wondering what type of photo editing software I should purchase to start practicing editing my photos. Any tips, advice or recommendations anyone?
Amen. It is also very affordable while still being powerful. I use an old version of Photoshop that I own (CS2) along with Affinity. I use photoshop for the simple things and go to Affinity when I need special features not available in an old Photoshop. I have such an aversion to renting software that I refuse to get involved in it.If you're looking for something that is very capable and doesn't require a subscription (ie: a monthly fee) than look at Affinity Photo. I'm very happy with it.
Lightroom, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Capture One, Darktable, RawTherapee. If you're just starting out and have no preconceptions, I'd highly recommend Darktable, solely because it's free (as in beer and speech) and really powerful if you take some time to learn more with it.
Space face. Hiya what camera are you using. Canon provide their own raw software.
Lightroom, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Capture One, Darktable, RawTherapee. If you're just starting out and have no preconceptions, I'd highly recommend Darktable, solely because it's free (as in beer and speech) and really powerful if you take some time to learn more with it.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I'd never heard of Darktable before. My version of Lightroom is the pre-subscription standalone version 5 and it doesn't recognise newer RAW file so I have to use DNG conversions. This obviously add another couple of hurdles in the workflow. I'm gonna have a look at it, seeing as it's free, nowt to lose.
Lightroom, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Capture One, Darktable, RawTherapee. If you're just starting out and have no preconceptions, I'd highly recommend Darktable, solely because it's free (as in beer and speech) and really powerful if you take some time to learn more with it.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I'd never heard of Darktable before. My version of Lightroom is the pre-subscription standalone version 5 and it doesn't recognise newer RAW file so I have to use DNG conversions. This obviously add another couple of hurdles in the workflow. I'm gonna have a look at it, seeing as it's free, nowt to lose.
DarkTable is excellent software for raw file processing. As an open source product it's got the expected rough edges but they're worth the effort. A high priority for me is a raw workflow that is 100% non-destructive and non-linearly re-editable. You mentioned for example Affinity which in a raw workflow is forced destructive -- show stopper for me.
DarkTable's editing capabilities are impressive and as such tend to support my goal. An edit for example in LR that requires some modestly complicated cloning work will send most LR users off to PS or some other raster editor and that's going to add a destructive element into the edit. Odds are you'd be able to complete the edit in DrakTable.
Lightroom, Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Capture One, Darktable, RawTherapee. If you're just starting out and have no preconceptions, I'd highly recommend Darktable, solely because it's free (as in beer and speech) and really powerful if you take some time to learn more with it.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I'd never heard of Darktable before. My version of Lightroom is the pre-subscription standalone version 5 and it doesn't recognise newer RAW file so I have to use DNG conversions. This obviously add another couple of hurdles in the workflow. I'm gonna have a look at it, seeing as it's free, nowt to lose.
DarkTable is excellent software for raw file processing. As an open source product it's got the expected rough edges but they're worth the effort. A high priority for me is a raw workflow that is 100% non-destructive and non-linearly re-editable. You mentioned for example Affinity which in a raw workflow is forced destructive -- show stopper for me.
DarkTable's editing capabilities are impressive and as such tend to support my goal. An edit for example in LR that requires some modestly complicated cloning work will send most LR users off to PS or some other raster editor and that's going to add a destructive element into the edit. Odds are you'd be able to complete the edit in DrakTable.
Thank you very much. Yeah, I do jump a lot from LR to PS Elements for the purposes you mention.
I'm gonna download Darktable on my PC tonight and give it a go.
Cheers again.![]()