jbcohen
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Not which do you own, which is the better software. I have several but they are not all the same quality.
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pointless question without specifying requirements.
hotdog321
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Photoshop has always been the big boy on the block. That said, the modern CC rental requirement really annoys the heck out of me. I want to own and use standalone.
ericN2
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Photoshop CS (6 for me) .. not CC .. which I've tried but after some 15 years or so with PS/CS I still prefer to use that... with LOTS of super Plug-ins and Actions I've accumulated over the years.
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That's Photo manipulation not Photo editing in the true sense ...
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Rightly or wrongly, Photoshop is the industry standard in the same way Microsoft Office or Word is the industry standard. It also seems to be the most fully-featured program that accepts the most plugins. The only reasons to use something else are to do with price or complexity. There are so many online guides that complexity doesn't seem to be an issue anymore.
BillyBobSenna
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Lightroom?
Have been a long time user of PS Elements, then mostly Lightroom for the last 3-4 years. Having switched to Linux recently I'm now using Darktable, Gimp, and Raw Therapee for most of my photo processing. All work well for my purposes - and are free. Hugin (also free) works well for stitching panoramas
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Wow! Is 21 votes a statistically significant sample size? The 6 people who voted Other might have been voting for Lightroom, oddly not a choice in the poll.
Did you discuss Darktable vs RawTherapee on another thread? I would be very interested in your thoughts.
I liked GIMP better than Photoshop CS2 when I first tried GIMP on Linux about 8 years ago. It has just gotten better since then.
I did not know Hugin runs on Linux! All my cameras have panorama mode but height is limited to 1440 or something like that.
Did you discuss Darktable vs RawTherapee on another thread? I would be very interested in your thoughts.
I liked GIMP better than Photoshop CS2 when I first tried GIMP on Linux about 8 years ago. It has just gotten better since then.
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Was happy to see a Linux version of Hugin too. Just downloaded it yesterday so haven't had a chance to use it yet (other than a quick test to see if it's working) but if it's like most stuff I've been using, there's very little (if any) difference between platforms.
Yes, I have mentioned some of the open source photo software here recently. Darktable is my first stop for photos. It's taken a bit of time to get comfortable with it but the more I use it the more I like it.
Gimp has become my PS replacement too and it continues get better with use. All those little floating windows were odd at first but I just discovered how to show everything in one window (like PS) and it's made a big difference.
If I need better noise reduction (and a few other tweaks) Raw Therapee is great. Still learning it too but so far so good.
Getting the preferences set for these programs is also taking time but it's really making a difference. Open source software has really come a long way recently and I'm impressed with the quality that's available these days.
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What are the aspects you are interested in? I think there are some obvious differences, especially regarding the overall workflow concepts. There are also some major differences with respect to editing features and some minor with respect to quality.
If you don't mind I have a question for you about Darktable. Overall I'm very happy with it. On top of basic LR type adjustments there's a lot of other capability that I'm only just starting to dig into. One thing I can't seem to find though is how to take one step back when editing. In other programs, Ctrl-Z undoes the last action it's not so in Darktable. What I've been doing is clicking on the edit history stack, just below the last edit, and proceeding from there. It works fine but a simple 'hold-click' would be nice too.
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Correct, there is no undo. Going back on the history stack is the way to go.
OK, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing some thing. Thanks!
Took a few shots this morning to use for creating a panorama in Hugin.
As far as I could tell it works just like it does in OS X, don't know about Windows.
No processing was done other than to stitch 3 images (jpg's taken with my V1 to limit file size for testing).
Everything went smoothly and very quickly, seeming faster in Linux than OS X.
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Thanks for the report!
Is it your Nikon V1 that seems somewhat undersaturated? The histogram was empty on the right. Here is your panorama with colors cranked up a bit. Maybe too much.
Levels trim, saturation +20
No, looks fine. As a RAW shooter I use a custom SD camera profile, with saturation and contrast bumped down a notch. It helps me see how I've captured the highlights/shadows using the jpg preview on the rear LCD. Just something I've gotten used to.Thanks for the report!
Is it your Nikon V1 that seems somewhat undersaturated? The histogram was empty on the right. Here is your panorama with colors cranked up a bit. Maybe too much.
Levels trim, saturation +20
Going to JPG this morning I didn't think to reset the camera profile and as I mentioned, didn't bother to edit the final image (at all) since it was just a test of Hugin. Should know better to post something like that here. ;-)
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