Whats your Photo Editing toolset?

12 years 6 months ago #151552 by chakkaradeep
Many people ask about "Whats in your camera bag?" - But what about the different software, toolsets that we photographers use? Share your toolset here B)

Windows or Apple?

Post processing software
- Adobe PhotoShop?
- Adobe LightRoom?
- Apple Aperture
- Software provided by the camera manufacturer, for example: Canon Digital Professional
- Any other software?

Offline Photo Library
- Windows Live Photo Gallery
- Apple iPhoto
- Any other photo library?

Online Photostream
- Website
- Flickr
- Picasa
- Any other online photostream?

Anything else you want to add?

Cheers,
Chaks

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12 years 6 months ago #151553 by chakkaradeep
Let me start it :)

Windows or Apple?
iMac running Lion OS

Post processing software
Canon Digital Professional
[Planning to purchase Adobe LightRoom later]

Offline Photo Library
Apple iPhoto

Online Photostream
Flickr - flickr.com/digitalbreak [feel free to add me as your contact :) ]

Cheers,
Chaks

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12 years 6 months ago - 12 years 6 months ago #151557 by effron
PC...Win 7

Photoshop CS5
Lightroom 3

Flicker, 500px

and seven various portable hard drives....:)

Why so serious?
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12 years 6 months ago #151658 by Stanly
PC - Windows 7
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom

Color Efex
WD external hard drive

Nikon Z6 | Nikon FM10 | Nikon D80 | Nikon 50mm f/1.8D | Nikon 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S VR | 35-105mm f/3.5 Macro | 80-200mm f/4.5 | SB600 | Pocket Wizard II
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12 years 6 months ago #151712 by photobod
PC - windows 7
Adobe photoshop cs5
Lightroom 3

Maxtor external hard drive

you can see all my links to my photostreams below

www.dcimages.org.uk
"A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective." - Irving Penn

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12 years 6 months ago #151828 by KCook
All Windows. The program that came with my Canon is my primary tool, Digital Photo Professional. I start with this for importing from the camera, inspection, simple edits, and conversions to TIFF of JPG. More complicated editing and embellishment is done with Adobe's Elements 9 (I'm too cheap for PS). Also do use Irfanview and Zoner Photo Studio 12 for special tasks. If I were more serious about organizing I'd pick up ACDSee too. But I'm just not that serious.

Kelly Cook

Canon 50D, Olympus PL2
kellycook.zenfolio.com/

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12 years 6 months ago #151837 by Johnnie
PC - Windows Vista and XP

Photoshop 7
Photoshop Elements 8
Corel Paintshop Photo Pro X3
Gimp
Canon Digital Photo Professional Ver: :3.9.2

Organizer - PSE-8


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12 years 6 months ago #151857 by chakkaradeep
Thanks so far guys! Great to see the mixture of the softwares used and surprised to see more Windows users B)

Keep them coming :thumbsup:

Cheers,
Chaks

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12 years 6 months ago #152016 by rmeyer7
Core i5 PC that I built with photo processing in mind, running Windows 7

Photoshop CS3
Lightroom 3

Offline Album Software - Picasa

Online - Picasa web albums/Google+, Flickr


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12 years 6 months ago #152023 by robbie
8gb win 7 pc
CS5 upgrade from CS2
Nik plugins[all of them]
onOne Photo suite
Capture One 6 Express[raw converter]
Neat Image [noise remover]
ViewNX2 [raw converter..give better colors for Ir]
Panorama Factory [stitching program]
Spyder 3 express [monitor calibrator]


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12 years 6 months ago #152058 by welsberr
Sometimes I'm shooting things that are contemplative single images, and sometimes I'm shooting a weekend's worth of some dog sport event. The workflow changes with the context.

I have a Fuji S2 whose raw converter runs on Windows. For that, I have a Perl script that passes all the RAFs to both dcraw and the Raw Converter LE program, the latter using AutoHotKey to interact with the GUI window. "dcraw" conversion of the S2 files only spits out a 6MP image and the white balance looks a bit off compared to Fuji RC LE. I haven't done much work in raw with the Nikon D2Xs yet.

For events, I use ImageMagick on Windows XP and 7, Mac OS X, Linux, or FreeBSD for batch image processing. I have a Perl script to produce versions at three reduced resolutions, auto-normalize and apply unsharp mask. I use Jhead to auto-rotate images and jpegoptim to strip EXIF data out of lower-resolution files.

I use GIMP and Corel Photo-Paint for interactive editing of individual images. If I'm headed for a printed image or uprezzing, I use DDI Software's QImage program. I use Hugin for panorama stitching and qtpfsgui/Luminance HDR for high dynamic range stuff.

I haven't settled on any particular image management package. I often use Gwenview mostly because it works fairly quickly even run from an X windows host and accessing from the file server, and because it doesn't force a decision at this point.

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