Image processing - work flow

[Louise G]

Hey guys hope your all well and enjoying this "nice" snow!

Thought id ask a few questions see i could get an idea if people all use diff software.

I currently use between photoshop, Canons digital photo professional (great for oding some minor changes etc and organising), light rooms and photomatrix. but im hoping to stick with just one piece of software. what does everyone else find the easiest and quickest to use?

i dont want to do any real processing tryiing to stay away from all that and keep everything as it comes out the camera, so only saturation and sharpness!  but i want to add a copyright to files, and cant find a way to do this  easily!

im impatient with a short attention span so anything quick and easy is the way forward for me! 

 

[Robertthesnapper]

I am a Canon user to and I had and have Canons Digital Photo Professional and Photoshop. Not sure if this will help. I do all my work flow in Bridge, It has Metadata file, I can also keyword images and star rate them. If I have to edit an image, I can do this in Open in Camera Raw.

Robert

[otooleg]

Photoshop Louise - it is the industry standard but can be overly complicated in having too many ways to do the same thing!!!!
However working in layers is straight forward once you learn the basics and you can easily set up a layer to incorporated your copywrite symbol.

If you really want to keep it simple - then use Picasa - it does the job and its free!!!!

Kindest Regards

George

[Grahamg]

Just to add a different flavour to the mix, I use Apple Apperture now for all my photo work.  I know everyone will probably say now that it only works on a Mac, which is correct, but it is incredibly simple and easy to use, and provides the ability to do just the type of adjustments that you talk about.  I now find that I can do processing of images in a fraction of the time that it used to take me when I used a pc and Photoshop CS2.

The Apple store in Glasgow http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/buchananstreet/ also runs hands on work shops on how to use the software.  I used this before I bought my Mac and Apperture 2.  There is no obligation, you dont have to already own a Mac, you just need to register and book a place on the workshop.  They normally only take about 6 at a time so there is not loads of people all fighting for attention.  Everyone has their own MacBook to work on.  The next Apperture workshop is on the 22nd March.

Dont know if this helps or not, but I think it is always useful to give another opinion.