Eleanor Rigby

What is the best editing software for a Macbook? Thanks!

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

Best is relative. I use Affinity Photo

rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

I have a MacBook Pro and currently use Lightroom v5.7 (non-CC) and On1 Photo Raw
Also considering MacPhun's Luminar, Picktorial 3.0 from Picktorial Innovations, Ltd., Serif's Affinity and Corel's After Shot Pro 3. There are others out there as well.

bylinecl

Has anyone here tired Iridient Developer with Capture One Pro?

bylinecl

Oops. Should have added that I have a late 2016 MacBook Pro and have been using Lightroom and am thinking of alternatives.

LoneRangeFinder Loc: Left field

Hadn't heard of it. What has been your experience with Iridient?

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

I have both a 2012 MacBook Air and a 2017 MacBook Pro. I have Lightroom CC (i.e., Lightroom 6), ON1 Photo RAW 2017, Luminar Neptune, Aurora HDR 2017, Pixlr, LightZone, iMage Tools, GraphicConverter 9, Fotor Photo Editor, easyHDR 3, darktable and a few other little utilities. I guess you could say I'm on a quest to find "the" perfect photo editing tool.

Do I use them all? No. My primary editors are Lightroom, Luminar, ON1 and Aurora. I should give special mention to easyHDR 3, as it's a pretty nifty program that can render a single photo into HDR without my needing to make (m)any tweaks (although there are tweaks galore in the program!). Many of these are free programs, and just today I downloaded the free version of Polarr (from the Mac App Store), and am working my way through it in another window.

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Eleanor, I'm a Windows person but in many cases the software available is the same. Whatever software you choose, it will be a little (or lot) overwhelming at first. You just have to watch tutorials and experiment and not be discouraged. Just take it as a challenge.

Since you shoot Nikon, you might want to look into the free software offered on Nikon's website - Capture NX-D. It should do all the adjustments you would want starting out and there are many people that find it does everything they need. When you decide you want to get into more complicated adjustments including layers, Photoshop Elements is a reasonably priced option that has different modes that help you while you are learning. I, personally, have used Elements for a couple of years but I am planning to purchase Affinity very soon. I don't like the fact the Elements only works with 8 bit files. I am encouraged by all the positive comments about Affinity and am anxious to give it a try.

bylinecl

As an old film shooter who's new to digital, and shooting only B&W with a Leica Monochrom, my only, and very limited, experience so far is with Lightroom.

Which is OK, but I'm interested in alternatives which will allow being able to use RAW/DNG as I once used one of the specified high-quality developers with TriX 400, in the field, with the objective of limiting or even eliminating as much of the digital post-processing as possible for an as-shot experience.

Mac Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.

Macphun Luminar is what I use most.
Affinity Photo is also good

Eleanor Rigby

Thank you!

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

I don't know about MacBook, but I use Lightroom CC on my Windows laptops. It works great (I use an external 1TB USB drive for storage to keep it off of my "C" drive. I upload all of my photos from the memory cards and then process them. I can then (once I'm sure that the images are correctly stored on the USB drive) reformat the SD cards for further use. I also back up the uploaded images to my WDCloud Drive that is back home and connected to the internet. This gives me additional safety in getting an additional copy of my images offsite and back home. Oh, and Lightroom/Photoshop will work remotely for 30days or more if you don't have Wi-Fi access for them to "phone home" for license approval. (30-45 days is that Adobe claims on the non-Wi-Fi ability, but I've never gone over 3 weeks). However, this maintains consistency in my image processing. I generally upload and duplicate images to the USB drive in my hotel room and to the Western Digital Cloud through the hotel/motel Wi-Fi (or go to a local library, restaurant or other place offering Wi-Fi) and copy the images back home. I don't do heavy processing of images until I get home to do them on my more powerful and faster desktop computer unless I need a few specific images while on location. But it does give me the ability to view shots incase I need or want to reshoot them. Plus, it gives me the added security of knowing that copies of my images are safely back home incase something happens to my cameras, laptop, USB drive, or whatever while traveling.

cyclespeed Loc: Calgary, Alberta Canada

I love reading from Windows users when discussing Apple computers. Much like listening to testifying before the House or Senate sub committees. The topic is the same but the contents don't make any sense.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

I have a Mac and I use Camera Raw and PS mostly and LR occasionally. I also have OnOne which has oodles of possibilities. The newest version has incorporated some of the look of the old Nik software. Very functional software, not a huge learning curve with good results and not too expensive.

Eleanor Rigby

Thanks so much :)