Bobspez wrote:
Maybe, but I have never had a need to use them. Auto tone, Auto color, Auto contrast, cropping, creating panos, merging photos for focus stacking, tweaking contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, shadows, highlights, midtone contrast, gamma, unsharp mask, gaussian blur, correcting wide angle lens distortion, removing dust marks with the healing brush toool, dodging and burning, resizing and straightening pictures, all can be done without layers. It's all the things I use. Can I remove a fire hydrant from a photo without layers, probably not, but I don't need to do that. I just want to get the best picture I can in the least amount of time. I rarely spend more than a few minutes post processing a picture in Photoshop. All of the above is done with just a few mouse clicks or sliders. Once you learn it it's really quick to optimize any picture in Photoshop. It's all nondestructive if you change the name when you save, like adding ps1 to the picture name. An added bonus is if you use Premiere Pro to edit videos, all the same operations (and more) are available for video, used in much the same way. I've been using the CS6 suite for many years, so it doesn't cost me anything. After trying some of the newer CC trial versions, I have not seen any reason to upgrade.
Maybe, but I have never had a need to use them. Au... (
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I think you would get more out of Lightroom if you’re not going to use layers. Much easier and nondestructive.