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By: Sabrina - family portraits sarasota

Sabrina - family portraits sarasota — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:03:09 +0000

True. In the pre-digital days, photographers were forced — or, maybe the right word is “accustomed” — to work hard for that perfect shot. Fast forward to this digital era and some photographers have become somewhat flaccid. Photoshop has their backs.

By: David Joachim

David Joachim — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:56:23 +0000

Another free processing service is Google’s Picassa. It is limited, but extremely user-friendly. It also has a nice web album component for photo sharing. Its limitations are somewhat of a blessing, in that it forces you to be more disciplined when you shoot, so that you don’t succumb to the temptation to “fix it in post.”

David Joachim

By: DiscerningPhotog

DiscerningPhotog — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:13:48 +0000

You’ll find Photoshop Elements adequate for your image processing at this point in your development. Also, for free, check out Gimp. I haven’t used it myself but it looks like it can handle most image processing requirements. This is something I need to research myself, Bill, maybe for a future post.
Andrew

By: BayouBill

BayouBill — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:49:42 +0000

Having just reentered the SLR world via the digital route after years away from film SLRs, I am really having a hard time getting used to, and taking advantage of, the fact that I can capture literally thousands of images to a single memory card rather than the 24 or 36 images I used to get on a roll of film. When using film I was very conscious of the cost of each image and tried to shoot economically (I didn’t have free access to a commercial photography lab like some people we know!).

Now I have the reverse problem. I’m worried that when I get over the psychological barrier of still thinking in terms of “film economy” and start capturing more images in a session, I won’t have the time to browse all the images I’ve captured to decide which ones I want to keep. So many images, so little time! Where is the balance?

Also, Andrew, can you recommend some less costly but still adequate alternatives to PhotoShop and/or some sites that compare post processing software?

Thanks!

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