@Tintype_18 wrote:
I like to review posts and replies to lock it in my memory. They say memory is the second thing to go; can't remember the first.
Newton, do you have Photoshop Ultimate plus Lightroom? FWIW, the sale on Elements or Premier goes off this coming Saturday. I'm cheap.
No, I use DPP 4 for Raw editing and Corel PhotoImpact for framing and cropping. Although I can crop/frame in DPP, I just prefer to "convert & save" the entire frame in DPP then use PI where I have more control of the resulting tif image. I use Corel PaintShop Pro Ultimate just to play with because it has some great features and is fun to use.
Fortunately, DPP is all I need for a finished product when I do decide to sale a print. My technique is 90% pre shot prep (exposure, proper background & b/g lighting, setting, my position, etc.) and 10% post editing. So, by the time my Raw files hit my computer, I just need to add/subtract a bit of saturation and use unsharp mask to adjust out some of Canons anti-aliasing (AA) filter. Depending on the lens, I sometimes use the lens optimizer, and sometimes use DPP's noise reduction when I have to raise ISO for various reasons.
I would say that there are a lot of "old timers" on this forum that use the same 90/10, but choose to use PhotoShop or Lightroom, and nothin' wrong with that at all, just not my path. Our advantage is coming from film where you just get a few opportunities to get "that" shot, so we worked on technique and it carried over into digital. I'm not criticizing others, just pointing out where some of us came from, but you don't have to be from that era to know or learn propper technique.
