anotherview Loc: California

The photo-editing software brings out the potential of a photograph.

Shakey Loc: Traveling again to Norway and other places.

If you are not a fan of post processing you may prefer a program with plenty of presets, which will lighten the load when working with your images. On1 has a full program free giveaway at: https://www.on1.com/promo/0517-effects/ . There are additional presets available online plus plenty of tutorials on Youtube to get you started. You'll soon grasp the way to use the basic five or six tools. If you want to invest in the latest 2018 version that's your choice. Many programs are trying provide a quick and easy way to post process images. Have fun hunting for them. Enjoy.

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Suntouched and Photodoc,
I've heard rumours that PSE is also going to the cloud model in the near future. If so, that will be the end of that one for me. I will keep the latest standalone version I have on my computer.
I just got PSE2018 last week, haven't played much with it yet, because of current priorities.
However, if you want more features for PSE, they can be had for US$12.00 from < http://elementsplus.net/ >
Easy to install, and adds a number of PS features to PSE. You can download and install the demo version, which contains only a couple of the features, to get an idea of what it's like.

fotobyferg

suntouched, I am right with you.

I have always been the geek in my house, despite having two adult children that grew up during the “digital revolution”.

However, as I get older, have gone through cancer, hip, shoulder, neck and knee surgeries (that took years out of my life and still affect my abilities to this day) I have become less and less willing to climb those often-time steep learning curves associated with new software.

I want to travel to exotic locations...and have. I want to ride and drive my horses. I want to sail endlessly beautiful summer days or zip around in our little wooden antique powerboat on a cool, crisp fall day. I want to visit with my kids. I want to live!

I do NOT want to sit at home learning software programs for better image editing of pictues I have no desire or intention of selling.

I give my watermarked photos away because that’s what I enjoy doing, and many happy high school wrestlers, adult rugby team players, and outdoor loving horsemen sincerely apprecite my efforts despite them not being highly edited.

Good composition and knowledge of your subject matter goes far and, more importantly, works for little ol’ novice photographer me!

cmcaroffino Loc: Sebring, FL

Yes I agree with you. I enjoy shooting RAW and playing around with the processing and can certainly see the value of shooting RAW but there are other times I don't want to mess with that and just shoot JPEG and run them through Perfectly Clear V3 which does a great job of improving my pictures. I do a lot of event photography for the community I live in and its much easier to shoot JPEG>Perfectly Clear but for landscapes, nature etc I shoot RAW or both RAW and JPG just depends on the situation.

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Try Paint shop Pro, went through tht years ago and settled on PSP , haven't used the most recent yet, waiting to get a new computer first.

johnbhome2 Loc: Wyoming, Michigan

If in isn't broke just use it. One can go nuts trying to keep up.

Brucej67 Loc: Cary, NC

I have been using Photoshop since 2008 and once you learn it you find that it is easier to pick up another editing package and use it because they all work initially the same, the only major difference is where they place the components. For-instance I can use Photoshop CC and Affinity Photo interchangeably as Affinity Photo can do 90% of what Photoshop does as far as image editing.

Grand Loc: Lebanon, Pa

that's why I shoot jpeg

Bill_de Loc: US

I just watched the intro video. $12 seems very reasonable for the features of Elements it exposes. If I can install on my 2 computers with PSE 15, I'm sold. Thanks for the heads up.

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Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Do make sure you order the correct version: They bring out a new version with every new PSE !

lwerthe1mer Loc: Birmingham, Alabama

[quote=suntouched]I have tried recent versions of DXO, Luminar and Affinity and don't find them to be at all intuitive. As a matter of fact I sat there stating at the DXO screen for 5 minutes trying to figure out how to load a photo to edit and it was downhill from there.

I don't enjoy post processing and would rather be taking pictures than learning new from scratch, complicated, editing software. So for now I will keep on using Bridge, Camera Raw, PS, (and OnOne) and pay the fees. My fees haven't risen more than 2.00 a month (if that) over the past 5 years. There is no guarantee that the aforementioned companies will still be around 5 years from now anyway and if they are, who knows what their fees will end up being. Or they could decide that the lease option is the way to go too.

And there is always PS Elements (with video editing) as a stand alone to purchase.

Anyone else feel the same?[/quote

I adept the same approach. I’m comfortable with LR. Why change until I have to.

Jeffcs Loc: Myrtle Beach South Carolina

Shooting JPGS is like buying film and letting a lab decide on how the final image looks

Shooting in RAW allows you the maker to bring out all of the image potential

Bill_de Loc: US

Not true!

Unlike having a lab process your images, there is a lot of leeway when editing a JPG. Truly not as much as with RAW, but a lot more than there was 10 years ago.

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sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

And fun too!!