Photoshop or Something Else?

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Permalink Reply by Richard Schneider on November 28, 2007 at 10:36pm

I usually use photoshop for editing photos that I really care about, but if I am just doing really quick touch-ups I use Picasa sometimes.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Chinchay on November 29, 2007 at 12:22am

Aperture Aperture Aperture *breath* APERTURE!!! Especially for working with multiple photos, Aperture allows you to copy the same adjustments you've made on a picture and take them to another. For example, if after importing you notice you've underexposed an entire sequence, Aperture allows you to adjust them all at once, instead of individually. When working at the Apple store, people often asked what the difference between Photoshop and Aperture were; here's what I said:

" Aperture and Photoshop are both GREAT photo programs that can do many of the same things, but their strengths are different. To put it simply, I would use photoshop if i wanted to take the head off of a chicken, and put it on a cow. In other words creative manipulation of photography and design. Aperture on the other hand, is HARDCORE image correction. Especially wen working with RAW photography."

I've found that Aperture is WORLDS easier and more user friendly. So yeah, there's my two cents.

http://www.apple.com/aperture/quicktours/

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Permalink Reply by Kristen Ising on December 14, 2008 at 8:36pm

Is aperture something I can use with my PC. or is it only for apple? Im new to a lot of this and just yous photoshop.now. Is it something you can upload free or do you buy it?
Thanks -Kristen

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Permalink Reply by Eugene Madison on December 3, 2007 at 3:43pm

I actually use Google's Picasa. I only do basic color corrections and crops, but it works very well for that.

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Permalink Reply by Otilia on December 13, 2008 at 6:32pm

Hi Rob
I've recently purchased Elements 6 but because I still don't know how to uset it, I'm still using Picasa. However I find that when using Picasa the resolution of my photos diminishes. Do you not find this?

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Permalink Reply by Jim Novak on March 28, 2009 at 8:32am

From the Picasa help file -
"JPEG is a lossy file type, which means that each time you save the photo, you'll lose some information from that photo file. This is the nature of the JPEG file type, and not specific to Picasa. This information loss occurs because the creation of the new JPEG requires a certain amount of JPEG compression. The more times you save a given photo, the more photo information that will be lost."

Make sure to save your original.

jim

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Permalink Reply by Todd on March 29, 2009 at 2:02pm

I will save my really good pics as a .tiff file. The file is then quite large, but it isn't lossy.

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Permalink Reply by nikki on June 10, 2009 at 9:21am

i use photoshop CS3 and i love it

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Permalink Reply by Gordie Tempest on December 9, 2007 at 10:49am

I like using Adobe's Lightroom v 1.3 program. It has some real neat features. I especialy like the cropping tool.

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Permalink Reply by DGillespie on December 9, 2007 at 1:58pm

Trisha,

I use Photoshop CS3. I am no expert but I do try, and what I have found is that Photoshop being the leader has the most in terms of useful resources, tutorials, tips and etc out there. I find that I use Photoshop more and more as I grow in confidence and experience, (true for most things I suppose). But, the comment about working on many photos at the same time got to me. I felt the same way until I learned about using Photoshop with Lightroom (also by Adobe but geared toward photographers). Much of the repetition can be taken out of the "digital" process. By creating actions as well as applying corrections to a batch of image files all at once. You are right there are lots of competitors out there, but it seems the industry standard will be there for some time to come. Have you tried any of the web tips or video tutorials? I found some great ones on iTunes in the podcast section.
Best of luck..

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Permalink Reply by Reymar Gooding on December 18, 2007 at 3:22am

Hey, you can check out my site if you like, its a really dummed down version of photoshop that i created so others can edit their pictures online. I think its great for simple stuff, otherwise i wouldnt have spent the time in creating it in the first place, so try it and tell me what you think. Here's the link http://www.edityourpicture.com

I should warn you though, don't expect any miracles :)

But please, let me know what you think, it is still a work-in-progress and your feedback would really help me make the site better.

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Permalink Reply by SGarriepy on January 1, 2008 at 12:31pm

Photoshop is a pixel pusher, and I use it for the serious editing when I have o do more that balance color or crop. Don’t get me wrong I love Photoshop and it’s open 24/7 on my machine, But it’s mostly for desktop publishing along with Illustrator.

Adobe's Lightroom and Aperture and are similar products, including what I have seen of both the interfaces. The price line is also the same on both $299.00.

I don’t do a ton of serious shooting, but if I did Lightroom would be the app I would get. There is a good postcast by Matt Kloskowski that can give you some quick in-sites to the interface.

Not sure about Aperture but Lightroom will allow you to process JPG file in camera raw and that is a great feature. The tabbed interface covers it all, from the development and storage of you images to contact prints, web galleries and tons of presets along the way.

If you not a hardcore photographer applications like iPhoto (Mac) and ACDSee (PC) are both great products for around $100 bucks that can fill all you digital asset management and editing needs.

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