Adobe Light Room
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glycerine
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I believe Lightroom is a standalone piece of software. You can do alot of post production activities in it. Just look at Adobe's website and I'm sure you'll find a ton of info and they usually have trial versions of their software.
Muggsy1776
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Lightroom is a stand alone program. Lightroom is a great program, not too bad to learn either. Photoshop was, and still is, geared more toward graphic designers. Lightroom was designed from the ground up to be used by photographers. For great tutorials look up Matt Kozlowski, Scott Kelby or the site http://lightroomkillertips.com Kelby does a great tutorial on using it, and if you can catch his class when it travels around the country I highly recommend it.
I used to use Photoshop Elements, but now I'm a Lightroom user.
I used to use Photoshop Elements, but now I'm a Lightroom user.
knight_muzzleloader
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HI there, I downloaded a free photo software that is very similar to Photoshop. I have both. The free download is called Gimp, http://www.gimp.org/
Look at some of my pictures. I edited them with GIMP
Look at some of my pictures. I edited them with GIMP
glycerine
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Yeah, Gimp is similar to Corel PhotoPaint and Adobe Photoshop, but Lightroom is a different beast...
moke
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Carsonbm-
I own a photo studio and we have used ight Room for a couple of years. It is a software specifically made for Photograghers and has a lot of production capabilites. While Professional Photographers use Photoshop for a good share of every day, we try not to. Photoshop is not geared to production, if we are in Photoshop it means we are fixing something, which means our workflow has been interupted. I like Light Room alot, but there are a bunch of production softwares out there and some will plug into the full version of Photoshop. The problem is, as far as I am concerned they are ALL overpriced. Be careful when buying from some software vendors that you are not buying the "education" version of software. That version is far cheaper...most times 50%... but most times will not accept plug ins or is not upgradeable. I found that out the hard way.
Mike aka: Moke
I own a photo studio and we have used ight Room for a couple of years. It is a software specifically made for Photograghers and has a lot of production capabilites. While Professional Photographers use Photoshop for a good share of every day, we try not to. Photoshop is not geared to production, if we are in Photoshop it means we are fixing something, which means our workflow has been interupted. I like Light Room alot, but there are a bunch of production softwares out there and some will plug into the full version of Photoshop. The problem is, as far as I am concerned they are ALL overpriced. Be careful when buying from some software vendors that you are not buying the "education" version of software. That version is far cheaper...most times 50%... but most times will not accept plug ins or is not upgradeable. I found that out the hard way.
Mike aka: Moke
DurocShark
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Light Room is great in that it automates or makes easier many of the things we need to do specifically to enhance photographs. Photoshop tries to be everything to everybody, and as such has a much more manual workflow.
Since I've worked in pshop for so many years, I prefer it still. But if someone handed me a copy of LR I'd be willing to spend more time with it.
Since I've worked in pshop for so many years, I prefer it still. But if someone handed me a copy of LR I'd be willing to spend more time with it.