Picture/Photograph Editing?

[Gally]

With me looking to buy a new camera in the next few weeks, most probably an FZ Lumix, i'm looking at ways to post process my pictures, resizing before uploading to Flickr/PB.

Any good ones? Any good ones for a novice?

I can't even get small borders on my images in Photobucket, i'm pretty useless!

I there a possibility the camera will come with editing software?

I'd just like to touch them up before posting and with them needing resized anyway thought it be good to have some software to do it all at once.

Thanks.

 

[Ali]

Photoscape mate, so simple, and does enough for me!

It's free and you can preset bulk photo's. I.e sharpen, border etc.

 

[Gally]

Resize bulk Ali?

Sounds good. How far indepth does the editing go?

Cheers Jew!

Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Key Features

• Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow
• Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming, clone stamp
• Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos
• Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo
• Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo
• Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo
• Print: Print portrait shots, carte de visites(CDV), passport photos
• Splitter: Slice a photo into several pieces
• Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
• Color Picker: Zoom in on images, search and pick a color
• Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG
• Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper
• Face Search: Find similar faces on the Internet

 

[Gally]

I'll download it once I get home.

 

[Ali]

I do all my pics in Photoscape put it that way!

 

[Gally]

Superb mate, that's one I owe you.

 

[.Adam.]

GIMP 2 is ok, it's near on exactly the same as Photoshop, but completely free which is a bonus!

http://www.gimp.org/

 

[Ali]

Interesting name...

 

[.Adam.]

haha it's not a piece of softward i'd mention whilst in public tbh..

 

[Tigger]

Suits you though haha :clown:

 

[.Adam.]

Suits you though haha :clown:

You've seen me in my gimp suit

 

[Tigger]

So you have other suits too? lol

 

[Djw John]

Always fun to google that program. Especially in "images"....

 

[Scott™]

I used gimp before Photoshop. Its not on the same level but still good for free.

 

[Tigger]

PaintShop Pro X3 is quite good too

 

[bully]

I use Lightroom to process and resize, I don't really bother with PS as its complicated and I am not into fiddling with pics for ages.

 

[dunganick]

Lightroom and Photoshop. Nothing else compares. The two programs also work nicely together.

 

[Gaz.]

Lightroom and Photoshop. Nothing else compares. The two programs also work nicely together.

This.

Cue Aperture users.

 

[Justin]

Aperture is rubbish compared to Photoshop. Although isn't it more of an Image Organiser?

Pixelmator for the Mac is meant to be good

 

[dunganick]

Photoshop is designed to do a huge range of things, so if you want to clone stuff out or add stuff into a shot or stich photos together then photoshop is your software.

However if you just want to edit/process photos, quickly then aperture or lightroom is what your after.

If you needed to process 100 photos in 5 mins, with Lightroom thats piss easy, however with photoshop it would be a right pain. You can set up batch actions, but you wont be able to check all of your photos easily/quickly. They are different bits of software for different jobs and not really comparable. This is why the Lightroom/photoshop package is so good. You can quickly process your photos, if there is one you want to edit then you just right click the image, choose to take your lightroom adjustments across with you into photoshop. Job done, no exporting and re-opening in other software.

Lightroom also has nice features for editing Exif and captions across a large number of images quickly, again with photoshop this is a real pain.

 

[Tigger]

I have to get myself Lightroom 3 - have CS4 at the min and use it along with Bridge to do all my importing, sorting, quick edits to exposure/WB/blacks/crop/saturation - sharpness & borders I do in photoshop but I'm sure there's a quicker way than I do it :S

 

[Gally]

How much is Photoshop these days? I won't buy it as I wouldn't have a f**king clue but just interested.

Thanks again Ali, Photoscape batch editor is awesome!

 

[Revels]

£700ish.

 

[Gally]

WOW! I thought I had stumbled upon something else when I seen $699 the other day, turns out it was right! Fcuk!

 

[Tigger]

CS4 Photoshop used to be $999!

 

[Gally]

Surely you would only ever buy it if it was work related, it's hardly something you buy on a whim to mess about with modding cars.

 

[Tigger]

I'm trying to get my own photography up on its feet - getting there and PS has been a God-send + I'm still learning how to use everything in it

I was lucky and got a REAL version of it on eBay for £250 - after 3 fake ones

 

[dunganick]

Truthfully there must be a reason that Adobe make their creative suite so easy to source for free/'crack'. If they didn't allow lots of us to access it then it wouldn't be the biggest piece of software in the business and businesses, schools and uni's wouldn't buy multi user licences for obscene amounts of money.

The student editions are dirt cheap, and i'm sure everyone knows a current student. LR is about £90 and think PS is only a bit more than that.

 

[Danny133]

Lightroom and Photoshop. Nothing else compares. The two programs also work nicely together.

Plus 2 it's what I use

 

[Scott™]

Surely you would only ever buy it if it was work related, it's hardly something you buy on a whim to mess about with modding cars.

I have photoshop elements. £60 and is quality.