Mac work flow lessons

Nixon

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I have mostly self taught photography so far with books and YouTube and practice, I am pretty happy working in manual mode and with some of my results straight out of the camera, but want to spend some time learning how to work efficiently and effectively off camera, from simple storage structure to the PP side of things, I'm working on a mac, with rawtherapee. At the moment. I used to be quite comfortable with photos hop back in the cs2 days, pre light room (Bridge was it called then) , but things seem to have moved on a lot!

Can anyone reccomend any good resources, books or YouTube channels that will help me focus and tune my work flow? There seems to be lots of camera and hardware guys, not so many software guys.

Also can anyone recommend any essential free software, I don't know if I can justify the cost of Adobe cc just yet, as I'm really feeling quite overwhelmed by it all, it will just sit idle until I build my confidence. Gutted I missed the prime day deal!

Any tips, hints or inspiration?
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You have The RawTherapee which is one of the best Raw converters around. I would suggest the free Gimp as a pixel editor. I used it for many years - it is simple to use and produces good results. It is not quite as good as Photoshop or Affinity Photo but is considerably cheaper. Actually, if you are a hobbyist, Photoshop is not really called for. If you outgrow Gimp, go for Affinity Photo.

Neither of those will give you a DAM (Digital Asset Management). I used Digikam (also free) for years along with The RawTherapee and Gimp which will give you all the functionality any amateur needs.

As for learning, I am afraid that I am strictly an autodidact and have no idea as to available resources.
 
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