Quick survey: What Photo Editing Software Do You Use? (Page 4): With respect to all who might disagree, as of this morning, uhh has 85,218 members and you want to conduct an impromptu...

gessman Loc: Colorado

Thruxton wrote:

I use Corel Paintshop. LR seems to be the favored program on his forum. I thought it might be interesting to tabulate preferred editors without going into all the various reasons for making that selection. If this has already been done recently, let me know. I probably overlooked it in 'Search'. Thanks.

With respect to all who might disagree, as of this morning, uhh has 85,218 members and you want to conduct an impromptu survey of who uses what post processing software because you think it might help some newbie decided what to use in the future? These kinds of questions seem to me to be a serious waste of a lot of people's time and serve little to no purpose.

TucsonDave Loc: Tucson, Arizona

Thruxton wrote:

I use Corel Paintshop. LR seems to be the favored program on his forum. I thought it might be interesting to tabulate preferred editors without going into all the various reasons for making that selection. If this has already been done recently, let me know. I probably overlooked it in 'Search'. Thanks.

Affinity Photo, Windows Version

Pat F 4119 Loc: Branford, CT

Lightroom

traderjohn Loc: New York City

gessman wrote:

With respect to all who might disagree, as of this morning, uhh has 85,218 members and you want to conduct an impromptu survey of who uses what post processing software because you think it might help some newbie decided what to use in the future? These kinds of questions seem to me to be a serious waste of a lot of people's time and serve little to no purpose.

Yet here you are. Wasting your time. Do you think the usage of "some newbie" is a little pompous and arrogant?

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

Photoshop CS5. This summer I'm going to learn more about Affinity.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

Those who have responded that they use a raw converter and stop there are "leaving money on the table" so to speak. While raw converters are considerably better than Pixmantec's Raw Shooter, the first raw converter I ever used, back in 2006 - being parametric - or rules based - in nature, are much less suitable for making the precise, locally targeted adjustments necessary for proper professional image finishing.

Images that come out of a parametric editor are usually of a better quality than letting the rules that are set in the camera, but in many cases a far cry from being the best they can be. A pixel level - or bitmap - editor can perform the precise adjustments for a proper restoration, a fashion-industry acceptable retouch on a head shot, adding structure to some areas while smoothing other areas, using channel replacement to repair an image, or channel mixing to enable a black and white conversion, not to mention all the creative opportunities made possible with drawing tools, layer styles, 3D, texture mapping, etc etc etc.

This question could be split into three parts - do you shoot raw, which raw converter do you use, and once you have converted the raw to a bitmap or if you simply use the camera's jpegs, which photo editor do you use. And of course, link to some results.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

gessman wrote:

With respect to all who might disagree, as of this morning, uhh has 85,218 members and you want to conduct an impromptu survey of who uses what post processing software because you think it might help some newbie decided what to use in the future? These kinds of questions seem to me to be a serious waste of a lot of people's time and serve little to no purpose.

And if this question is not necessarily intended to help the newbie?