DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
jwm1944 wrote:
just editing
Your best bet is to start with the manufacturer's software for editing. The manufacturer of whatever camera you have will have some free software and you can download it from their web site.
Once you get to the point where you need to do more than that you can start thinking about more capable editors. I like Lightroom because it now comes with Photoshop, which I consider the king of editors. Not everyone agrees with my assessment and they will tell you so.
DirtFarmer wrote:
Your best bet is to start with the manufacturer's software for editing. The manufacturer of whatever camera you have will have some free software and you can download it from their web site.
Once you get to the point where you need to do more than that you can start thinking about more capable editors. I like Lightroom because it now comes with Photoshop, which I consider the king of editors. Not everyone agrees with my assessment and they will tell you so.
I agree.
The prob with manuf softwares is they are often clunky, slow and crash prone. And forget batch editing. However if time is not a concern the manuf software is good and will deliver the best raw rendering and color.
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
JD750 wrote:
I agree.
The prob with manuf softwares is they are often clunky, slow and crash prone. And forget batch editing. However if time is not a concern the manuf software is good and will deliver the best raw rendering and color.
That could well be. I don't remember that far back when I used the Nikon software when I first got a DSLR.
But it's best to learn to walk before trying to run.
Let me make an observation that doesn’t directly answer your vacation. The common, well intended, suggestion to use free trials to guide your selection is a recipe for frustration. Thirty days is not sufficient to allow you to determine how one of these programs fits your needs. Lightroom is a poster child for this viewpoint. Its most important capability is management of your images with a data base. Accessing those capabilities are probably alien to your experience. Many people trip over that hurtle and dismiss not only LR but its teammate PS. You get both these days with the subscription.
Otherwise, I don’t think anything else is a better alternative.
AndyH
Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Jack 13088 wrote:
Let me make an observation that doesn’t directly answer your vacation. The common, well intended, suggestion to use free trials to guide your selection is a recipe for frustration. Thirty days is not sufficient to allow you to determine how one of these programs fits your needs. Lightroom is a poster child for this viewpoint. Its most important capability is management of your images with a data base. Accessing those capabilities are probably alien to your experience. Many people trip over that hurtle and dismiss not only LR but its teammate PS. You get both these days with the subscription.
Otherwise, I don’t think anything else is a better alternative.
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Excellent point! I' am not a big fan of trial subscriptions for complex software packages in any area. But given the layers of complexity that have been added to photo processing software over the past decade, it is impossible to learn enough to undertake basic operations unless you have an awful lot of free time on your hands, let alone to evaluate one versus another.
Andy
jwm1944 wrote:
What is the best alternative for Lightroom cloud??
Lightroom Classic. I use both.
Xpatch
Loc: New York, Antigua, GT.
Lightroom cc seems to have integrated synch and publishing abilities I have not found elsewhere. I use it with Claddic and it uses the lR cloud tp synch and also Govea you access from any internet computer. It’s ediring is not ad developed LRClasic, but I keep all my photos library ona drive accessible by both. It’s possible to share the same care ligue but May cause issues per lightroom. Reabre CC is an evolving proving, classic isa mature program and there Inter connectivity will work in the future, i think uyou could use Dropbox and Bridge for the some similar type of access but that is a tricky path.
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