processing software? what do you use?

[charlesml3]

Lightroom and Photoshop together.

Lightroom is an outstanding photo organization system that has a pretty good editor built-in.

Photoshop is probably the best photo editing software made, but it has no inherent photo organization system.

The two together are incredibly powerful and well integrated.

-Charles

 

[Storker]

For >95% of my image processing, Adobe Lightroom is great.

If I need to do any serious, pixel-level editing, I go to Photoshop. But I still use LR for cataloging purposes.

 

[tarponchik]

LR5

 

[Interceptor121]

DxO Photolab 3 extremely cost effective and integrates with lightroom and photoshop

 

[Landau]

Lightroom - I'm still on the last version that wasn't by subscription - it really is a fantastic piece of software

 

[bvanant]

Darktable is quite good (and free) but if you are an experienced LR/PS person the learning curve is steep.
Bill

 

[pauldw]

Has anyone had any experience with PaintShop Pro and correcting color of underwater photographs? I'm not really an underwater photographer, just an occasional GoPro'er, so I haven't tried color correction on dive photos with it, but I use both Photoshop Elements and PaintShop Pro for regular photographs (more for graphics, actually), and find the latter both much more intuitive than Photoshop, and also reasonably powerful.

If anyone has used Paintshop Pro for this purpose, please weigh in. After Christmas, I'll have more need of either filters or computers to improve some photography.

Unfortunately, Paintshop Pro is Windows only. So when on my Mac, I'm stuck with Photoshop Elements.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I use Photoshop Elements, which you can get without a subscription from Best Buy or Newegg

 

[tursiops]

DxO Photolab 3 extremely cost effective and integrates with lightroom and photoshop

Can you transfer a large LR catalog to it and keep the editing metadata? I don't want to lose the work on on my old pix.

 

[Interceptor121]

Can you transfer a large LR catalog to it and keep the editing metadata? I don't want to lose the work on on my old pix.

The idea is that you keep lightroom for library purposes and use photolab for editing
Workflow DxO Photolab & Adobe Lightroom - DxO