Do you use post processing software?

[Ilovemycam]

Do you use post processing software?

Not the one that came with your cam. Something like Photoshop, NIK, Elements, Lightroom, Alien Skin, etc.

 

[gsgary]

Yes, Capture One

 

[SCraig]

You are going to get very, very, very few "No" votes to this poll. It's moot anyway since the image has already been manipulated by the time it comes out of the camera.

 

[manicmike]

I do any RAW editing in photoshop.

 

[skieur]

Every pro and advanced enthusiast does postprocessing. How much depends on where your output photo is going to be used. In my area a canvas print of a photo was hung in a drug store. The size was 44 inches by 18 feet. Sharpness was important because viewers would be close to it. At the other end of the spectrum are videoprojected images that don't go beyond HD specifications and colour and dynamic range limitations.

skieur

 

[DorkSterr]

Yes. Lightroom, ViewNX, HDR Efx Pro 2 and Photomatix Pro 4.1.3. << In order of most used.

 

[480sparky]

If you ain't PPing, you ain't doin' nuttin' but takin' pikchures.

 

[pab]

I do any RAW editing in photoshop.

+1

 

[unpopular]

I couldn't even get Sony Data Converter to open my a700 files to check on something. But I've been using Raw Image Processor and Photoline for several years. I've been trained on Photoshop in college and used it professionally, but I don't think I'd go back to PS, at least not for photography. There are things I just prefer about PL.

 

[Mike_E]

I couldn't even get Sony Data Converter to open my a700 files to check on something. But I've been using Raw Image Processor and Photoline for several years. I've been trained on Photoshop in college and used it professionally, but I don't think I'd go back to PS, at least not for photography. There are things I just prefer about PL.

So, what do you like about it? I'm not familiar with this software.

 

[table1349]

[h=2]Do you use post processing software?[/h]
Yes.

 

[KmH]

Every digital photo gets subjected to post processing software.

Note: the image sensor in a digital camera is an analog device, and the image sensor cannot record color. The image sensor only records luminosity.
So, every digital photo starts as just gray scale information.

The individual pixel voltages generated when an exposure is made are analog values that have to be converted to digital values in the camera.

Analog pixel voltage values go in one side of the analog-to-digital (A/D) converter (on or near the image sensor), and digital pixel values come out the other side. What may have been 12,963,283 discrete analog pixel voltage values gets reduced to either 4906 (12-bit depth) or 16,384 (14-bit depth) discrete digital values.
If Raw is the selected file type, the digital pixel values get written to the memory card and post processed outside the camera in Raw conversion software be it camera maker software or not.
Raw conversion entails substantial post processing - demosacing, colormetric interpolation, gamma encoding, sharpening, anti-aliasing, and tone mapping.

If JPEG is the selected file type, the post processing software used is in the camera.

What started out as a Raw file can be converted to JPEG outside the camera after Raw conversion.

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom all use the same Raw conversion software application - Adobe Camera Raw (ACR).

ACR first appeared with Photoshop 7. The current release of professional grade Photoshop is CS 6 (Photoshop 13). CS6 Camera Raw, Elements 11 Camera Raw, and Lightroom 4's Develop module all use ACR 7 for Raw conversion. (Elements uses a de-featured, consumer grade version of ACR.)

 

[Fred Berg]

I use Sigma Pro, Picasa and PSE.

 

[texkam]

I thought you just drop the camera in an envelope and hand it to the sales associate.

 

[Ilovemycam]

You are going to get very, very, very few "No" votes to this poll. It's moot anyway since the image has already been manipulated by the time it comes out of the camera.

I was in the no, not even cam software until a few months ago.