Choice of Editing Software ?

[RedCobra]

Used Canon DPP and PS for many years. Then added LR. Now have been messing with PL4 and I really like it. I still use LR for cataloging/keywords/etc.
I import to LR, cull, and export the selected to DxO PL4. Then, save back to LR.

 

[Suzq]

I enjoy photography as a hobby. I have a Mac, and use Photos software for my libraries. I've found that Photos has great editing capabilities for quick adjustments. If I need more, I use either Luminar AI or Luminar 4 and Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo. I also use Starry Sky Staker and Starry Landscape Staker for astrophotography.

 

[muurman]

I used lightroom classic for almost a year. Then i tried Canon photo pro and saw that was doing a very good job. But Canon photo pro is to often saying not responding so i had a look on the internet and now evaluating ON1 Photo RAW 2023 and looks like that is as good as lightroom

 

[Hali]

I used lightroom classic for almost a year. Then i tried Canon photo pro and saw that was doing a very good job. But Canon photo pro is to often saying not responding so i had a look on the internet and now evaluating ON1 Photo RAW 2023 and looks like that is as good as lightroom

What did you dislike about lightroom CC that you switched? Have you looked at Dx0 Photolab 6?

 

[Snappy St Loes]

What did you dislike about lightroom CC that you switched? Have you looked at Dx0 Photolab 6?

These days I use DXO (Elite) 98% of the time since migrating from Luminar. I'm not saying its the best RAW processor in the market but its one I feel most at ease with after trying out ACDsee, On1 et al. The "Control Point" masking and denoise modules are superb.

 

[muurman]

What did you dislike about lightroom CC that you switched? Have you looked at Dx0 Photolab 6?

Basically i was looking what is else there. Then i came to ON1 and started to try , can't try all

 

[TandemYardsPhotography]

I use Pixelmator on an iPad, iPhone and MacBook Air. My needs are simple and this software works quite well for me.

 

[PhotoJim58]

Which processing software and plugins does everyone use ?

My preference is the Adobe photography monthly subscription and i tend to use Topaz Labs AI Denoise and AI Clear.
I also use Topaz Gigapixel. I also have Nik collection which i find great for the odd bit of processing different looks etc.

I have tried a few other editing programs like Luminar but always find myself going back to Photoshop & Lightroom.

It would be nice to know other members choices of software and also maybe some suggestions and tips Regarding processing etc.

I too use the Adobe monthly subscription. Mainly Lightroom with the Topaz deNoise AI plugin.

 

[Grahamk]

I stopped updating Photoshop when Adobe moved to a subscription model. I now mostly use Affinity Photo - available for Mac or PC for a single payment. Affinity has recently released version 2 (Affinity Photo 2) which is on special offer until 25 January 2023. There is a lot of information about Affinity Photo on the internet and the Affinity web site has a range of helpful video tutorials, as does YouTube.

 

[Only RF]

I am a relative newcomer to all but very basic editing, but I have the Adobe Photography subscription. I am still trying to get my head around photoshop <LOL>

Not that you can't use PS for photography but I once read. LrC is for the photographer, PS is for the designer. LrC easier to use.

Are you using PS for something specific that LrC can't handle? Since version 11 and especially 12 I can't remember the last time used PS and I grew up on it. These days I only use it to crop and export screen shots

Found and interesting video about the recent masking updates.

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[brianh]

I use Photoshop and Lightroom. The £9.00 pm subscription is very reasonable for what you get. The new neural filters are amazing

 

[Only RF]

I use Photoshop and Lightroom. The £9.00 pm subscription is very reasonable for what you get. The new neural filters are amazing

Plus you get a personal website with the plan. Portfolio.

 

[VanDyck]

Apple Photos as a library for iPhone photos

Dxo Photolab 5 for processing RAW files; Affinity Photo 2 (universal license) for photo editing and compositing. DxO ViewPoint and FilmPack are on hand.

Adobe CS3, 5, and 6 are available on legacy Macs if/when needed.

 

[Dcweather]

I used lightroom classic for almost a year. Then i tried Canon photo pro and saw that was doing a very good job. But Canon photo pro is to often saying not responding so i had a look on the internet and now evaluating ON1 Photo RAW 2023 and looks like that is as good as lightroom

I tried Topaz, DXO Pure Raw and ON1 for try out period to compare. I found DXO to be marginally the best, Topaz similar but very slow and ON1 to be the fastest and close enough to the other two. So I ended up with ON1 2023for the following reasons. Mainly it was way cheaper and bought outright. I don't like subscriptions. I'll get an update when it suits me and there are significant improvements which isn't usually annually! I like to load up single files and not catalogues of everything on the card which it easily does. It has a simple save as interface and not an overly complex "export" mode. It also has lens profiles and an extensive number of tonal adjustments plus a few interesting AI and sky presets if you like that sort of thing. So it is a complete package. The noise removal amount is very user adjustable. When I tried Pure Raw there wasn't much in the way of lowering the amount an I hate over sharpened and over noise removal n shots, especially wildlife. I believe DXO may have rectified this in later versions and they do probably give slightly "cleaner" results. I do have an earlier version of Topaz AI which I try from time to time on certain images. I also believe that things are very much subjective and each user has their own preferences for workflow etc. so it may not suit everybody but for me it was the best overall editing program. (I still have older PS elements and fairly recent Affinity but Camera Raw doesn't accept new files unless I convert to .DNG.

 

[Only RF]

I tried Topaz, DXO Pure Raw and ON1 for try out period to compare. I found DXO to be marginally the best, Topaz similar but very slow and ON1 to be the fastest and close enough to the other two. So I ended up with ON1 2023for the following reasons. Mainly it was way cheaper and bought outright. I don't like subscriptions. I'll get an update when it suits me and there are significant improvements which isn't usually annually! I like to load up single files and not catalogues of everything on the card which it easily does. It has a simple save as interface and not an overly complex "export" mode. It also has lens profiles and an extensive number of tonal adjustments plus a few interesting AI and sky presets if you like that sort of thing. So it is a complete package. The noise removal amount is very user adjustable. When I tried Pure Raw there wasn't much in the way of lowering the amount an I hate over sharpened and over noise removal n shots, especially wildlife. I believe DXO may have rectified this in later versions and they do probably give slightly "cleaner" results. I do have an earlier version of Topaz AI which I try from time to time on certain images. I also believe that things are very much subjective and each user has their own preferences for workflow etc. so it may not suit everybody but for me it was the best overall editing program. (I still have older PS elements and fairly recent Affinity but Camera Raw doesn't accept new files unless I convert to .DNG.

I'm not trying to change you mind but for other readers. You don't have to have catalogues of everything on the card. I may come home with 100 files but just save 9. I pre-cull before importing into LrC or you can cull after. The catalogue and the files are completely separate. I'd have the same base file structure for any developer I would use. The catalogue is just a database that works on the side that keeps a record of your adjustments. Since it is a database it uses very little storage space. You don't know it's even there.

ON1 is on my list of backups if I ever decide to drop Adobe.

 

[Japeg]

Photo Mechanic for ingest, Lightroom for most edits, Photoshop on very rare occasions for personal work.

Lately been playing with Narrative to cull bursts.

 

[Zebraspark]

I've bounced around for a bit but have recently been enjoying Capture One more than LR. I also prefer to not use subscriptions.
Capture one is powerful and I like how you can re-arrange the UI. I feel the auto mode gets me closer than in LR and copy/pasting settings in the same scene works better. LR copy/paste always seemed overly complicated, but maybe it is just me?

 

[JohnN]

How're you finding On1 Raw compared with lightroom/photoshop in the current iterations?

Also what's the difference between the LR flavours on PC?

 

[DWU2]

Which processing software and plugins does everyone use ?

My preference is the Adobe photography monthly subscription and i tend to use Topaz Labs AI Denoise and AI Clear.
I also use Topaz Gigapixel. I also have Nik collection which i find great for the odd bit of processing different looks etc.

I have tried a few other editing programs like Luminar but always find myself going back to Photoshop & Lightroom.

It would be nice to know other members choices of software and also maybe some suggestions and tips Regarding processing etc.

 

[DWU2]

Which processing software and plugins does everyone use ?

My preference is the Adobe photography monthly subscription and i tend to use Topaz Labs AI Denoise and AI Clear.
I also use Topaz Gigapixel. I also have Nik collection which i find great for the odd bit of processing different looks etc.

I have tried a few other editing programs like Luminar but always find myself going back to Photoshop & Lightroom.

It would be nice to know other members choices of software and also maybe some suggestions and tips Regarding processing etc.

Here's the products I commonly use: Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Topaz Photo AI, Photomatix Pro, Dynamic Auto Painter, NIK Suite.

 

[esheato]

Adobe subscription here. LR for the heavy lifting, PS for more difficult touch ups (the Remove Tool is pure magic) and DXO PureRaw for noise reduction.

Throw in some NIK suite for when I’m feeling grey(scale, heh), and DXO Filmpack when I’m feeling nostalgic.

I usually get an idea of where I want to go with my edits, and what I need to use, when I’m culling. Ohh, this would be good BW. Or I think this would look neat with a vintage processing.

 

[JohnN]

Just jumped back to LR after a very long time between shots - I was using On1 RAW, but given I tried a relatively simple edit and found the masks to be very loose and then it crashed after a 30 min edit without saving it was time to dust off the 18GBP discount I got from buying a lens.

Very glad I did, feels like something is missing but I expect thats me being very rusty.