What equipment do I need to process raw?
Dec 11, 2017 08:59:50 #
chcollinsjr wrote:
Thanks for the excellent perspective on keeping the pleasure in our hobby. What software do you use for processing your *.jpg and *.raw images?
If you are asking me, Elements 18 but all jpeg. Want to start doing raw so it looks like I will need to get learn LR.
Dec 11, 2017 16:02:10 #
Red Sky At Night wrote:
If you are asking me, Elements 18 but all jpeg. Want to start doing raw so it looks like I will need to get learn LR.
Elements 18 is fine for RAW too. The benefits of LR are all the tools in the software, both editing and library management, and an overall approach on editing efficiency.
Dec 11, 2017 16:34:13 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Elements 18 is fine for RAW too. The benefits of LR are all the tools in the software, both editing and library management, and an overall approach on editing efficiency.
Yes, but that means dealing with the Adobe Plantation. Any recommended alternatives?
Dec 11, 2017 22:17:51 #
chcollinsjr wrote:
Yes, but that means dealing with the Adobe Plantation. Any recommended alternatives?
ON1 Photo Raw suite is pretty equivalent to Lightroom, and also exposes the layers concept and masking, which LR hides. It also has some rudiments of digital asset management.
I like it for some things, the perfect brush/eraser are cool.
Other programs like Affinity and Luminar seem to have most of the same raw editing capabilities: white balance, tint, white point, black point, highlights, shadows, coupled with some easy to use masks will get you a long way down the road for RAW editing. One thing I like is being able to do color balancing easily. Lightroom's HSL panel is fantastic, but it's only a global adjustment; why they didn't extend that to local adjustments drives me crazy.
But for things like exposure blending, tone adjustments, color adjustments I go back to Photoshop and tools which allow me to build complicated tone or color-based masks easily.
I paid good money for PhotoMechanic to help with ingesting, organizing, and exporting photos, and I'm glad I did, it's very powerful.
Dec 12, 2017 08:00:16 #
I had a request for one of my photos yesterday from the cars owner/driver. I was able to locate the image in a minute thanks to some basic cataloging tools in Lightroom. For me if you have very many images to manage it is important to be able to organize and retrieve them in addition to being able to edit them. Other tools and methods can certainly do this but I am happy with my use of Lightroom thus far. And I know that there is still a ton of capability I have not implemented at this time. I have catalogued about 60k images in less than a year of starting with Lightroom.
Best,
Todd Ferguson
Best,
Todd Ferguson
Dec 13, 2017 21:08:16 #
Well, I just installed Luminar 2018 ($69.00) and I think it will do the job. As I learn and use it, I'll report my experiences to this group.
Dec 13, 2017 21:12:17 #
As I posted elsewhere, I think Luminar 2018 seems as powerful, friendlier, and, at $69., preferable to Adobe's abusive subscription-only control-freak policy. Chuck
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