Do you use software to adjust your pics?

Subject: Do you use software to adjust your pics? Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:40 pm

I just use the default Olympus software to upload the pics to my camera

generally I haven't adjusted many pics but I'm starting to get used to Photoshop & Adobe Lightroom 2

does anyone use any of these or similar?

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Subject: Re: Do you use software to adjust your pics? Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:53 pm

I use Olympus software to store all the pics I take too Steve. I also use it to work with RAW files (not that I shoot in RAW too often)
My main software for editing is Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. 've used PSP for about 14 years so feel confident with it.
I also have lightroom, but not done a lot with ot.

Point & Shoot Posts: 2 Join date: 2009-09-20

i use paintshop pro 9
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Subject: Re: Do you use software to adjust your pics? Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:49 pm

I have never adjusted the pics until VERY recently and Ive only tried it twice so far....both times with Adobe lightroom

I found it great with my first try as part of the photo was very much so in shadow - so when I adjusted it the shadow went and I had a better full picture.

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Point & Shoot Posts: 2 Join date: 2010-05-22

http://www.gimp.org/ is free software with a lot of add-ons and a full programing language embedded as well as ties to various image manip libraries.
There are decent on-line documentation availabel and some (slghtly out of date) books written for beginners.

Finally this tools works "out of the box" with most cheap graphics tablet. My Medion 256grad A4 tablet requires drivers under windows but used Wacom drivers under linux or a Mac and works flawlessly - GIMP even detects if you are using the tablet mouse of pen!

I have yet to find a decent (free) flexible RAW converter for Fuji RAW formats - pity I cannot afford a high-end Canon :-)

Jacqui

p.s. I use a high-res scanner to import 35mm negs and then clean up/remove the graining - buying a high-res scanner (and extra mem for the computers) was one of my best image manip purchases!

My latest $work activilty is something called openCL - this is a programming interface for the compute engines within a graphics card.
This allows say a graphics program doing image manipulation to have access tothe hundreds or thousands of "processors" within the graphics card instead of just the one to six in your PC.

The nice things is that with a small overhead sofwtare such as the gimp can be written to use either or both sets of processors increasing photo manipulation performance.