What photo editing software do you use?

[edbermac]

Came across this article regarding Adobe, seems some users are getting pretty pissed off with them.

What you use/recommend?

In this case, my feelings are tempered by the fact that I get it: Adobe is not beloved. Far from it, actually. The shift to subscription pricing has been wildly unpopular and seems to color almost every response to any step the company takes. Photographers have long memories, so it doesn’t even matter that the choice to give up perpetual software was made more than 10 years ago; some photographers are still mad now.

The past few years of minimal communication with the community at large followed by the tidal wave of bad press over the past six months has left Adobe’s standing with many photographers in shambles. Adobe couldn’t explain why it let its once excellent relationship with photographers and media lapse, only that it is sorry that happened.

https://petapixel.com/2024/08/15/photographers-vitriol-for-adobe-feels-insurmountable/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3NzfAWWPB70wWo4v5bCtFFXvjCDDQ_y5wobozi5s2-5dElfaWN41wKgtI_aem_0HE2oO7NeLW6MBdraXIvBg

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. GIMP. I keep a Windows 7 machine partly to keep using Photoshop and Lightroom

I use GIMP for most mundane modifications. Graphics Image Manipulation Program is free and Free (open source).

I have not paid for any subscriptions, preferring to use the old PS and LR (latter for keywording and basic mods while I'm there).

[mitch96]

6. How did you learn to use it? I hear it's pretty daunting...I'm a newby to photo editing...nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. I just played around with it mostly

I am used to software and had been using Photoshop. It's reasonably intuitive, but even now if I'm a bit rusty on it, I can get hung up for a bit. A few things similar to Photoshop have different names.

Both programs use layers which is very powerful for adding effects and retouching and adjustments. You might get a floating layer for pasting for example, and I think I use a menu item to merge it to the top layer. You can make layers invisible or not and merge down, etc.

GIMP wants to save an XCF file, it's own format that preserves layers and effects which is handy, but for most tasks, I just Export to JPG.

It's a powerful program, but mostly I use it for quick tasks. I also use Lightroom "editing" because it is so handy, so these days I rarely fire up the old Photoshop.

Install it, and run it and play around. There's online documentation and help and articles, I'm sure, but I haven't used them much. It's worth getting to know it.

[House of Roberts]

2. I use Arcsoft Photostudio 2000.

It came to me in the software of my XP computer and it still works on my Windows 10 computer.

It has way more capability than I need, and I mostly use it for resizing photos, squaring them to the display when they were scanned a little crooked, and some retouching of defects on old images.

[MichMan]

3. Photoshop Elements and Topaz Photo AI

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Plus Canon's DPP if I need to edit raw formats

[HAB911]

4. Photoshop and Topaz Photo AI

[usonian]

5. My cameras produce such great photos, even as jpegs, that I keep it real simple.

Apple's Preview App is usually all I need.
Finer adjustments and healing take GIMP. Open Source.
To edit RAW files, I use Darktable. Open Source. RawTherapee. Open Source. or GIMP.
"Use the Open Source, Luke"

I refuse to place my workflow at risk due to some highwayman demanding a subscription.

[Mousetoescamper]

8. Canon DPP4 for RAW and Apple Photo app for JPEG