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if you were to learn only one piece of software, what would that be?

I choose Lightroom. What about you?
 
Definitely Photoshop.. ACR will do everything Lightroom does, and Photoshop allows me to do what I can't do in Lightroom. I do use Lightroom for organizing my images, as it is far superior to Bridge---, but if I had to pick only one, well, I already answered that......
Buzz
 
FinancialWar said:
if you were to learn only one piece of software, what would that be?

I choose Lightroom. What about you?
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Tough question. It's a bit like asking "if you had to choose just food or drink..." I'd really hate to be without Lightroom, but I also want an editor that can make complex selections and replacements, stuff you can't do with LR.
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I use one package and it's Paint Shop Pro X4. With a few plugins, it does all that I need it too.

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Yup, PSP!

Vaya Con Dios
Errol
 
PSP x4

It does most (if not all and more) of what the adobe products do at 10% (or less (sometimes much less)) of the price. And this is all within the same package.

If you are going into the editing business it is a different story. Go for Adobe. Not because it is better, but because it is the industry standard and may be a pre-requisite for many firms.

You do have the options of free trials and it is in your best interest to use them.
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Only when you can criticize yourself, should you criticize others. Mikes.
 
I think Aftershot Pro is a nice compliment to PSP X4. What you might not be able to do in Aftershot, you can probably do in PSP X4. And you can get Aftershot pro for $20.00 before Jan 31.
 
Interesting. Aftershot Pro seems to be the Lightroom 3 equivalent for $20 during the special sale. Never heard of it until now.

I have both PSP X4 that came with some Nik Plugin 3 thing as part of their Ultimate Package for $67 when I upgraded X3. Not a bad deal.

However, I also have CS5 which I use a lot with Actions and plugins that PSP X4 will not always work with.

I have Lightroom 3 but I am not into cataloging as I get the work off the main computer once done and onto portable storage or burned off onto either DVD or Blu-Ray disks. Probably wouldn't benefit from Aftershot Pro either. I don't think I've launched Lightroom 3 in months.

My basics would be CS5, Qimage Ultimate, Imagenomics Portraiture for CS5, Vuescan, and Prism for writing my own color printing profiles in that order.

Mack
 
Ditto both replys above.
I got psp pro ultimate on sale 39 and aftershot 19.99

I am arming myself with all the sales and freebees I can because , I don't trust adobe and can not afford thier foolishnes with pricing and restrictions of upgrading every year.
Not enough new every year either.

Raw Therapee is good to...FREE
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Nikon Gal
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Gale

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JJMack
 
@Errol Gibbs can yo list the plugins you use?
Thanks
 
Photoshop CS6 without a doubt if I were buying this year.

It looks like the RAW processing will be an upgrade compared to CS5.

Excellent RAW conversion, best professional phote editing program, best educational resources, best integration with other pro software, largest community of serious users...
 
Photoshop! (cs4)

I really only use Photoshop now anyway. (as long as acr and bridge are included under the umbrella of photoshop!).

I keep hearing about lightrooms image organization capabilities being awesome, and to be honest bridge is pretty slow (ok, it's really slow)- so I may in the near future investigate lightroom to replace bridge/raw.
 
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