Can some photographer / software expert provide a brief rundown on what different photographic software actually does?
I rarely edit photos , because in the main I take pictures as an aide memoire , because I have a crap memory of what things look like.
I use Picasa to keep track of photos, but generally use Windows itself to copy, file , move images. I have never installed any software that came with a camera because I don't use raw files and have no idea what I would do with such software.
I did however, recently download a trial version of an HDR utility that stitches several bracketed exposures together to produce an HDR image. This told me two things.
1.I need a decent tripod to do this
and
2. There seems to be a huge amount of photographic software out there that many photographers apparently use all the time.
Which makes me ask- what does it actually do?
What actually is Photoshop? Lightroom? Photoshop elements? (and various others). What do these do that I can't do in free (or OS) applications like Picasa, windows various photo viewers, Irfanview, or The Gimp.
Of course, I could download a lot of trial versions and experiment, but I'm far too lazy and in any case I'd be half way into an install when Adobe Flash would start its third update of the day and throw a spanner in the works.
So far I've learned that software can-
Remove "redeye"...I never actually experience this, as I never use flash.
Straighten ("level"??) horizons... I can't imagine why I'd need to do this.
Organise files in folders...Windows 3.1 could do that.
Organise files in albums...What's the difference?
Crop and resize images...MSPaint , irfanview (again!), Windows power toys- all free , do this just fine.
What photographic software do people here find is worth actually spending money on and why?
I rarely edit photos , because in the main I take pictures as an aide memoire , because I have a crap memory of what things look like.
I use Picasa to keep track of photos, but generally use Windows itself to copy, file , move images. I have never installed any software that came with a camera because I don't use raw files and have no idea what I would do with such software.
I did however, recently download a trial version of an HDR utility that stitches several bracketed exposures together to produce an HDR image. This told me two things.
1.I need a decent tripod to do this
and
2. There seems to be a huge amount of photographic software out there that many photographers apparently use all the time.
Which makes me ask- what does it actually do?
What actually is Photoshop? Lightroom? Photoshop elements? (and various others). What do these do that I can't do in free (or OS) applications like Picasa, windows various photo viewers, Irfanview, or The Gimp.
Of course, I could download a lot of trial versions and experiment, but I'm far too lazy and in any case I'd be half way into an install when Adobe Flash would start its third update of the day and throw a spanner in the works.
So far I've learned that software can-
Remove "redeye"...I never actually experience this, as I never use flash.
Straighten ("level"??) horizons... I can't imagine why I'd need to do this.
Organise files in folders...Windows 3.1 could do that.
Organise files in albums...What's the difference?
Crop and resize images...MSPaint , irfanview (again!), Windows power toys- all free , do this just fine.
What photographic software do people here find is worth actually spending money on and why?
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