What Program does everybody use to edit photos????
I actually am an egg!
I use Bridge not photoshop….
From what I read, Photoshop sounded like over kill if you just want to spruce up a photo.
but awesome if you want to really do interesting stuff.
Aperture is a great way of storing, filing, moving, backing up and sprucing up, It also does slideshows, books, works with movies etc for quick edits. I think Light room is pretty much the same. Search out a trial and see if it works for you. Same with aperture.
yeah i think ill try and suss out lightroom first but im hearing very good things about it, might give a few other programs a look to but im pretty sold on lightroom tho
Thanks for the help guys!
I thought Bridge just located your photos, kept a master in that location and saved a .psd file of info, that’s applied to the photo, when opened in PS…?
Maybe Bridge has changed since I last used it.
Aperture does that natively without running additional programs.
Just opened Bridge, and thats what it looks like to me
Ahhhhhh read a scott kelby book and you will see what Bridge can do.
mawhahahaha!
ETA: will show you what you need to look at at home… don’t have it work. Will screenshot for you
I might just stick to shooting well, culling away the crap (inspired by something Oz wrote months back) and tidy filing.
Every time I have to process a shot it tells me I’ve been a lazy photog.
well, sometimes you want to use a shot for a different purpose to the one you originally shot it for. Then a little tweaking can save a whole new shoot. Say you shot for a client to use in a print, but then you want it for the web…. and I don’t need to go into that bit, you all already know it.
From what I read, Photoshop sounded like over kill if you just want to spruce up a photo.
but awesome if you want to really do interesting stuff.
Aperture is a great way of storing, filing, moving, backing up and sprucing up, It also does slideshows, books, works with movies etc for quick edits. I think Light room is pretty much the same. Search out a trial and see if it works for you. Same with aperture.
Thanks for the run down. Aperture will be another one for me to look into.
Okay this is my bridge (may look different to yours as Scott told me the best way to set it up… LOL
So I import my pics into bridge I then open them in a slide slow thing and you flick through and a quick arrow down deletes imagines you no longer want (out of focus etc..)
Anyway there is some batch process and the like. You will see collections in the left hand bottom corner… from my trip. When i processed the images I compressed them cause this was back in the old bw days where we had to reduce the size of our photos… LOL
Now at the top under the “window” fiile option there is a wheel thing. I click on this and it open the selected photo into “camera raw”. See below.
There are a lot of things you can tweek and change in Camera raw. I rarely go into PS.
Also note that even though it is called “camera raw” you don’t need raw files. I use jpeg (remember I don’t have a DSLR)
Moving this thread to Photography and Filming.
Ah yeh, I can see how you alter pics through Bridge/Raw. Just did it on a pic myself following a youtube tute. Then continued in Photoshop.
Here was my final product. (it was a rough go at it. Photo was too noisy and not sharp enough to begin with).
Ah!!!
I use Bridge “camera raw” when I batch edit. (especially if I accidently shot +1000 race shots in raw instead of jpeg).
It’s the only time I process with that program (batch processing).
For some reason Aperture won’t batch process. If it did I wouldn’t use Bridge - Bridge is fantastic for what it can do but the process I find labour intensive compared to Aperture.
The Aperture way;
1. Open Aperture, select import tab, select device, select photo/s, click import.
2. Select your photo, then “adjustments” tab, play with RAW fine tuning sliders. (If shot poorly make further jpeg adjustments).
3. Drag and drop into FaceBook, Flicker, email, photostream file in sidebar.
There are many single key shortcuts.
“c”= crop “f”=full screen “h”=adjustments “g”=straighten, that sort of thing.
The master file isn’t changed, it’s also backed up (to destinations you chose when creating that photo library) as is the adjustment history. Being mac I also have TimeMachine so both the saved original and the backup are duplicated externally on another drive, in another room.
Would it be overkill if I also backed up to an online server? Probably! so I haven’t set up that feature yet.
After previous post I opened Aperture, chose some photo’s cropped one (they were shot well so no processing required), then dropped them in my fb folder.
The whole process took as long as whatever it is between these post. (I also got caught in fb checking out shiz)
Check my fb (Snowbum Spaz) to see the full sequence.
He made the turn, the next gate and set a great time, somehow he also didn’t wipe me out.
This image isn’t cropped. He was that close!
11min to; open Aperture, find the photo I wanted, crop, upload the 6 shots to a dedicated folder on fb. Open fb, copy url and post them here.
Given that I dicked around on fb and culled 20 photo’s from my Aperture library (a rule I have about each time I open Aperture). And that at this time of eve the net slows down.
The process could be done in under 5min.
I should probably save face since I claim these are shot well, these are the first and last image of the sequence and soft on the focus. The others are spot on, and processed (just because I was fiddling) - that should be included in the time frame.