RE: [photoshop-beginners] Alternate Software for Photoshop

Sy:

If you speak of the tools for exposure adjustment that one uses all of the time with digital photos [exposure, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, saturation, sharpening, noise reduction], I find Lightroom by far and away a better program.  All of the experts I have watched on Creative Live say Lightroom is your library catalog system that can apply all of the exposure adjustments you would want, including isolated adjustments with the "adjustment brush".  You can apply adjustments to batches of photos all at once and apply presets for camera or lens variations on import. 

You only need photoshop for panoramas, hdr [unless you have an external program plugin like Photomatix or Efix] and particularly if you need or want to apply layers and masks to actually alter a very important photo to your needs.  You don't need or want Photoshop for your regular adjustments you routinely make: it is not nearly as efficient or easy to use as LR5, so I would forget about Photoshop as being your primary program to use with your photos.

Best wishes,

Don

 

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Subject: [photoshop-beginners] Alternate Software for Photoshop

 

Hello,

I like the tools which are used within Photoshop CS5.  Is there another software graphics program that I can get which uses all or most of these tools?

Skipper/Sy

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