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What software do you use? (8 posts)

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  • Avatar Image Lance Willett said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    What digital photography software do you use? Lightroom, Aperture, iPhoto, Picasa, PhotoMechanic?

    Please tell us what software you use, and why you like it.

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  • Avatar Image timbowen said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I prefer iPhoto for general photo management (the new face recognition feature is great) and have just begun using Lightroom for RAW photo processing and more advanced needs.

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  • Avatar Image vadervideo said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I am just really starting to get familiar with Photoshop believe it or not. :) – I have used Fireworks for many years (even when it was still MacroMedia) as that served best for web design. Lightroom is cool – but not effective for me as I do more video. Which leads me to the exploration of Photoshop (CS3 and 4) – Photoshop has some very powerful video tools that very few know about.

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  • Avatar Image Lance Willett said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I use a combination of iPhoto (for organization) and Photoshop (for editing and tweaking), but I’m excited to try out Lightroom. My wife takes a lot more photographs than I do, and she is considering moving from Picasa (Windows) to Lightroom as well.

    I tried a demo version of Apple’s Aperture, but found it to be a bit too complicated, and a touch slow (running on 2GB of RAM on a MacBook Pro). I think they’ve done some updates to it recently, but I’d have to have a good reason to go back.

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  • Avatar Image Gaber said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I currently use Lightroom for organization and most image adjustment and editing, and Photoshop for heavy lifting and things that Lightroom can’t do, such as converting to CMYK or other color modes, layer based editing, masks, etc.

    I’ve always been a Photoshop nut, and started off using iPhoto to manage my digital photos. I moved to Aperture when it came out, used it for awhile and did like it, but ultimately found that Lightroom fit into my Adobe work flow the best.

    I think Lightroom has some of the very best tools for processing camera raw images. I also love that its organizational scheme is based on the operating system’s folders. It doesn’t hide my image files deep inside of a single giant library file that’s not obviously accessible, like iPhoto and Aperture do.

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  • Avatar Image bdrake47 said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I use Lightroom for indexing, cataloging, tagging, and now with LR2, the bulk of editing too. Still use Photoshop for extensive editing (nothing beats Liquify!), but the way I’m able to streamline workflow with LR2 is a miracle. It’s definitely more suited to Photographers, that’s what it was designed for, so may not provide everything that Designers or other artists may need.

    Also use CaptureNX quite a bit, along with an assortment of plugins, presets, filters, & brushes in LR & PS.

    Still, software is great, indispensable really, but nothing is better than knowing you nailed the shot in-camera!

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  • Avatar Image books64 said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    I use Lightroom, CS3 and Canon’s Digital Photo Professional right now, depending upon what I am doing. I am trying to migrate most of my work everything towards Lightroom, though.

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  • Avatar Image Dave Smith said 1 year ago:

    Capture NX2 for most processing from RAW, Fireworks for the quick down and dirty stuff & Elements 7 from time to time.

    I also use Photomatix a lot for post processing.

    I agree with Billy, nailing the shot in camera and limiting the need for post is great.

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