Best RAW Photo Editor?

[unpopular]

All this for photo editing? Well over $6K in high performance storage for photo editing????

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Anyway. Yes. Newer "haswell" systems with an appropriate motherboard can support 128gb. But you have to be sure that this is the case, otherwise it is not supported.

I am currently at 56gb with 240GB SATA SSD for dedicated application cache storage and two 1TB SAS drives in RAID 1 using an LSI 9200 controller. For photo editing alone this would be total over-kill.

 

[donny1963]

All this for photo editing? Well over $6K in high performance storage for photo editing????

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Anyway. Yes. Newer "haswell" systems with an appropriate motherboard can support 128gb. But you have to be sure that this is the case, otherwise it is not supported.

I am currently at 56gb with 240GB SATA SSD for dedicated application cache storage and two 1TB SAS drives in RAID 1 using an LSI 9200 controller. For photo editing alone this would be total over-kill.

Well my system is not just for Still Photo's I use Adobe adobe premiere pro as well for video editing and do 3d rendering.
And some times play some games

 

[unpopular]

Well. That certainly makes more sense.

I use mine primarily for simulations and rendering. And cat videos.

 

[rbbecker]

Alright so I got the monthly version of Lightroom and I understand exporting to DNG vs JPEG but doesn't JPEG still sacrifice some quality because it compresses? Any suggestions on where to get prints from DNG format?

 

[table1349]

Print from whomever you like. Send them Tiff's. There are lots of good ones. Mpix, Adorama, etc.

 

[john.margetts]

JPEGs only sacrifice quality if you repeatedly save the same file. If you save once at max quality there is no image degradation at all. The printers will certainly prefer you to give them JPEGS rather than DNG or TIFF files.

 

[beagle100]

What camera?

Using a Canon EOS Rebel T1i currently.

start with the free Canon software then decide if Lightroom or photoshop or another editing program is worth upgrading

 

[table1349]

What camera?

Using a Canon EOS Rebel T1i currently.

start with the free Canon software then decide if Lightroom or photoshop or another editing program is worth upgrading

Too late. Best RAW Photo Editor?

 

[KmH]

Alright so I got the monthly version of Lightroom and I understand exporting to DNG vs JPEG but doesn't JPEG still sacrifice some quality because it compresses? Any suggestions on where to get prints from DNG format?

As mentioned, a print made from a 1st generation JPEG (JPEG is limited to 8-bit color depth) is virtually indistinguishable by humans from a print made of the same image from a 8-bit color depth TIFF file.

Most online print makers want you to send them a JPEG file, because they are smaller files than 8-bit depth TIFFs and don't use up the print makers storage as fast.
I am not aware of any print lab that will print from a DNG file.
Check the FAQ of whatever print lab(s) you use.

Also most print labs want your image files to be in the sRGB color space, though a few print labs can print from the broader Adobe RGB color space.
Again, check with whatever print lab(s) you use.