What do you use to edit your photos

[readie]

I was just wondering what you all use to edit your photos?

As a newbie to photography I can't bring myself to spend the £ XXX on photoshop?

Thanks

 

[PMac]

Download the trial, use it offline only, sorted.

 

[Addicted]

What about Elements/Lightroom ?

Depends how much editing you require I guess

 

[Jay.]

iPhoto for light editing and cropping. Lightroom for tweaking the colours and for editing that's requires a bit more time. Got photoshop too, but since I got Lightroom, I can't recall using it.

 

[v15ben]

I use Photoscape, free to download, has plenty of options and as a newbie to editing, I haven't got bored after a year.
Photoshop is far better though, I'm just too pikey to pay for it!

 

[Reev]

Lightroom.

 

[Sym0n]

Lightroom and Photoshop.

 

[Ay Ay Ron]

Lightroom
I've also got GIMP and Photoshop but I very rarely use them.

 

[couzens]

I've got photoshop Elements, Cost me £50, keeps me happy

 

[ukaskew]

Photoshop Elements and Snapseed Desktop is a nice combo, Elements is great for dust removal and more in-depth work etc, whilst Snapseed is ridiculously easy to use if you want to play around with colour/style etc but find PSE a bit too much like hard work for that side of things.

 

[gsums]

Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom

 

[MikeoftheQuays]

Lightroom is superb IMO.

Once or twice I could have done with something a bit more powerful to do some more heavy duty editing but it's rare that LR doesn't do the job. I've not felt the need to get anything else.

 

[readie]

Couple of questions
How do you set photoshop to offline? Is it a case of disconnecting from the Internet before use?

Can this be used with Lightroom aswell?

Mainly want it for touching up exposure and white balance as said in the guides on here

 

[Addicted]

Not sure if I can post this so feel free to delete if needed.

Run Notepad as administrator then open up C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts - hosts is the file

add this in at the bottom:

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com

Save, job done.

 

[Dunx90]

^^ that so you can run the free trial forever?

 

[Martin!]

Lightroom 4 and CS5.....Lightroom is everything you need though tbh.

 

[bully]

Aperture as its cheap and PS Elements.

I process through Aperture and rarely use PS unless its to remove a lamp post or something.

 

[Knuckles]

Not sure if I can post this so feel free to delete if needed.

Run Notepad as administrator then open up C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts - hosts is the file

add this in at the bottom:



Save, job done.

Lol, I pm'd him that incase I got told off

 

[Addicted]

Lol, I pm'd him that incase I got told off

thinking about it now I probably should have PM'd, but hopefully they'll just delete the post if need be

 

[Knuckles]

^^ that so you can run the free trial forever?

It stops photoshop from updating so adobe 'can't see' that you have it. So in a way yeah, the trial won't run out.

That code is the same for diverting spam/pop ups... Something along the lines of diverting the traffic to a blank ip adress

 

[readie]

127.0.0.1 is the local host computer so it just tells it to use that ip address for the updates instead of finding the real site so when it can't find it it times out and the request for an update fails

 

[glenn_adam_doble]

I just use photoshop cs5 dodgy copy, I'll never shellout for it considering they update it what feels like quarterly and add a few features that I will never use, will put cs6 on when I have time

 

[Adamm.]

I have Photoshop CS5 although every time I go on it I'm prompted for a code.

 

[glenn_adam_doble]

You will need to edit you host files, someone posted how to further back in the thread

 

[Habitual]

I shoot in RAW and edit in Lightroom to recover exposure mostly - if at all.

I use Photoshop to sometimes improve shadows/hightlights and improve saturation levels.

Lightroom is money well spent!

Photoshop, unless you're using it for a living, I wouldn't recommend so much - unless you get an older one. Even the older photoshops are good and will deliver the results you want.

 

[Adamm.]

You will need to edit you host files, someone posted how to further back in the thread

Yeah saw that lol will give it a try.