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Photoshop Elements
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Roberto,
see attached link for a bit more detail on what elements 5 has.
Rgds
Kevin
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/learningcenter/pse5-ataglance.pdf
bump :D
Very useful thread for people new into the tangled web of post processing, like me. I wanted to post a similar thread in fact, so looked through what people have already contributed before doing so.
My enquiry was along the lines of how much can I ‘get away with’ only using RAW workflow with the likes of DPP or Bibble or (maybe sometime in the future) Aperture, without jumping into Elements/PS/CS2? Will I only be able to achieve ‘so much’ sticking to the ‘purist’ bent of mind, even with quality RAW files (can I use the term negative any more? I miss that already, sigh).
I’m at the painful sticky start end of it and my experience with Elements over the past year has been like using a catus for a mouse! Anyway, I know I have reading and learning to do, as well as asking silly questions, I would be very intrested to hear people’s continued discussions & opinions on living with/without it.
Fanks lads.
Replying to UP:
I’m using Elements 3.0.
You might be interested in this book “Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements”, it comes with a CD of tools and plugins and ways of doing things Elements isn’t official meant to do (e.g. CMYK separations). Book itself is interesting, not the easiest reading though, quite technical. Haven’t read it extensively, so not sure how useful it is!
Also Adobe Lightroom (beta version) is available as a free download (expires 02/07 I think). I have used it a little bit and found it good. Handy to use in conjunction with Elements.
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/If you are using Elements 3.0 (or higher) you can download the updated raw converter plug-in from Adobe: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html
Hope this helps :)
I am not a big Photoshop user, I prefer not to use PS if at all possible, I have PS automated to resize, apply an unsharpen mask and save for web and occansially I will use it for cloning out some dust.
I played with Canon’s DPP over a year ago and felt that it lacked controls I would like. Photoshop’s RAW plugin seemed kind of clumsy and I wanted to play with RAW. I found Rawshooter Essenital which let me do a lot with RAW files.
Rawshooter’s workflow of doing a slideshow, and then rating the photos seemed simple and quite intuitive and then working with only the top rated photos seems to make sense to me.
Lightroom seems to use a lot of the same workflows. I like RawShooter so much that I bought the Premium edition which includes some additional features like vibrance and straightening.I have played with Lightroom, but I have not got my head around it’s workflow yet.
Storage is a factor that needs to be apprecpriate in any workflow especially RAW, as you will have more files, than Jpeg processing alone.
That’s my tales from the last year of working from raw files
Hope this helps someone else
DarraghJust got my copy of Elements 5 along with “The Missing Manual” book.
I won’t get a chance to install etc. until next week, but looking forward to getting my hands on some curves at last :wink:
Will post any good / negative findings.
Rgds
Kevin
darragh wrote:
I am not a big Photoshop user, I prefer not to use PS if at all possible, I have PS automated to resize, apply an unsharpen mask and save for web and occansially I will use it for cloning out some dust.
I played with Canon’s DPP over a year ago and felt that it lacked controls I would like. Photoshop’s RAW plugin seemed kind of clumsy and I wanted to play with RAW. I found Rawshooter Essenital which let me do a lot with RAW files.
Rawshooter’s workflow of doing a slideshow, and then rating the photos seemed simple and quite intuitive and then working with only the top rated photos seems to make sense to me.
Lightroom seems to use a lot of the same workflows. I like RawShooter so much that I bought the Premium edition which includes some additional features like vibrance and straightening.I have played with Lightroom, but I have not got my head around it’s workflow yet.
Storage is a factor that needs to be apprecpriate in any workflow especially RAW, as you will have more files, than Jpeg processing alone.
That’s my tales from the last year of working from raw files
Hope this helps someone else
DarraghI used Elements, but was not happy with it. I switched to Paint Shop Pro 9 which is quite a good editing package. I also use a freebie package I downloaded from the net. It’s called Photo Filtre and although limited is a good second editing package. Spinman
darragh wrote:
Rawshooter’s workflow of doing a slideshow, and then rating the photos seemed simple and quite intuitive and then working with only the top rated photos seems to make sense to me.
That’s how I work with DPP as well (and occasionally with Capture One).
Incidentally, Capture One LE is now available free with Sandisk Extreme III cards. It’s definitely worth getting a card just to get your hands on C1. And, as nobody has mentioned it yet, Bibble is a very capable convertre too!
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