teddyt72
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- Eddie
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Hi all,
I'm sorry if there has been a similar thread but I've not easily been able to find what I'm looking for. I'm sure someone will point me in the right direction if I'm repeating previous threads!
So I've recently got my camera out again after a little while of inactivity and having broken my laptop in that time I now have no editing software (was previously on PSE 8). I've downloaded a trial of PSE 10 for now but I think I might need to change my processing workflow as it feels clunky and poorly organised.
Me as a photographer (I imagine this will help). I probably get out with my cameara a handful of times a month (3-4 maybe) and take 500 or so photos (depending on what I'm shooting obviously) I live in London so mainly shoot street stuff, cityscapes etc. Most outings I get 50 or so decent photos. I'm starting to get to the stage where I need to start binning ones I don't keep, but I haven't been very good about that so far, I tend to just accumulate a lot of RAW files i'll never use!
My workflow would currently look like this
- Download from camera and create a new folder within PS elements (check that)
- go through and mark the ones I like with a star
- Edit these, usually one at a time (very basic editing, exposure, saturation, white balance etc, straighten, crop etc.) and then export to jpg if I'm posting them somewhere.
- That's pretty much it!
I've recently come across lightroom and I wonder if since I don't do much in the way of post processing (and don't have much desire to get into things like selective colouring, crazy effects like HDR etc - I like to keep it pure, for now anyway) I'd be better off with something like lightroom that would allow me to simply process the raw images more efficiently, better organise them (including getting rid of junk!) and post to flickr etc.
Would you agree? Is there anything else I should think about? I'm going to either buy my trial version of elements (£70 quid ish) or get lightroom (£139 from kerso - bargain!)
Many thanks,
Eddie.
I'm sorry if there has been a similar thread but I've not easily been able to find what I'm looking for. I'm sure someone will point me in the right direction if I'm repeating previous threads!
So I've recently got my camera out again after a little while of inactivity and having broken my laptop in that time I now have no editing software (was previously on PSE 8). I've downloaded a trial of PSE 10 for now but I think I might need to change my processing workflow as it feels clunky and poorly organised.
Me as a photographer (I imagine this will help). I probably get out with my cameara a handful of times a month (3-4 maybe) and take 500 or so photos (depending on what I'm shooting obviously) I live in London so mainly shoot street stuff, cityscapes etc. Most outings I get 50 or so decent photos. I'm starting to get to the stage where I need to start binning ones I don't keep, but I haven't been very good about that so far, I tend to just accumulate a lot of RAW files i'll never use!
My workflow would currently look like this
- Download from camera and create a new folder within PS elements (check that)
- go through and mark the ones I like with a star
- Edit these, usually one at a time (very basic editing, exposure, saturation, white balance etc, straighten, crop etc.) and then export to jpg if I'm posting them somewhere.
- That's pretty much it!
I've recently come across lightroom and I wonder if since I don't do much in the way of post processing (and don't have much desire to get into things like selective colouring, crazy effects like HDR etc - I like to keep it pure, for now anyway) I'd be better off with something like lightroom that would allow me to simply process the raw images more efficiently, better organise them (including getting rid of junk!) and post to flickr etc.
Would you agree? Is there anything else I should think about? I'm going to either buy my trial version of elements (£70 quid ish) or get lightroom (£139 from kerso - bargain!)
Many thanks,
Eddie.
