Lightroom - Upcoming King
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Just check out Lightroom. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/
This will, probably, be the ultimate tool for serious amateur and pro photographers and any other pros in the imaging field.
If you got Mac then you can test it already now. Think it's in beta3 atm. The Win version is at same beta stage but is not released for test to the public.
Been waiting for this to come out as a test version for PC users since end of last year. Seems I have to wait until beginning of next year tho. Long time to wait for something I long for and need. Starting over with a large DB is hell.
I've been using Photoshop since 1989 so, yes, I'm ofcourse used to it and partial. But, I've tried a little bit with GIMP and even when installing the replacement GIMP with the GUI looking like Photoshop it's still lacking too much for a serious amateur or a professional.
GIMP is a good alternative to Photoshop for simpler work and for the beginner but it's not even close to compete with Photoshop, at least not for a serious amateur photographer or pro, or any other professional needing a tool like Photoshop.
I need a NEF (Nikon raw format) viewer and editor and forget GIMP providing that. Even RAW, which I can get some old RAW editor (outdated) for GIMP, is still light years from being able to do what Adboe RAW plugin allows you to do, not to say what all other RAW editors out there can do and almost all of them support NEF since a long time back.
Since I'm not that good at GIMP, and since I can't use it if it won't provide me with NEF support, I can't be sure of the following so pls do correct me if I'm wrong, but what I've heard is that GIMP lacks such important features as 16-bit support, the majorly important IPTC support for us serious photographers, independent color adjustments, sharpening tools?, noise reduction tools?, and more tools, important to many of us but not me.
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Just check out Lightroom. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/ This will, probably, be the ultimate tool for serious amateur and pro photographers and any other pros in the imaging field. If you got Mac then you can test it already now. Think it's in beta3 atm. The Win version is at same beta stage but is not released for test to the public. Been waiting for this to come out as a test version for PC users since end of last year. Seems I have to wait until beginning of next year tho. Long time to wait for something I long for and need. Starting over with a large DB is hell.
I've been using Photoshop since 1989 so, yes, I'm ofcourse used to it and partial. But, I've tried a little bit with GIMP and even when installing the replacement GIMP with the GUI looking like Photoshop it's still lacking too much for a serious amateur or a professional. GIMP is a good alternative to Photoshop for simpler work and for the beginner but it's not even close to compete with Photoshop, at least not for a serious amateur photographer or pro, or any other professional needing a tool like Photoshop. I need a NEF (Nikon raw format) viewer and editor and forget GIMP providing that. Even RAW, which I can get some old RAW editor (outdated) for GIMP, is still light years from being able to do what Adboe RAW plugin allows you to do, not to say what all other RAW editors out there can do and almost all of them support NEF since a long time back. Since I'm not that good at GIMP, and since I can't use it if it won't provide me with NEF support, I can't be sure of the following so pls do correct me if I'm wrong, but what I've heard is that GIMP lacks such important features as 16-bit support, the majorly important IPTC support for us serious photographers, independent color adjustments, sharpening tools?, noise reduction tools?, and more tools, important to many of us but not me.