How necessary is the PP?

[rateeg]

I wanna know if every photo taken out of an SLR mostly needs PP?

How often or how much percentage can we use an editing program?

 

[jcrob33]

I'd assume that Most people use it 100% of the time.

I Personally don't touch my photo's. I don't have photoshop.

 

[oldmacman]

I wanna know if every photo taken out of an SLR mostly needs PP?

How often or how much percentage can we use an editing program?

If you are shooting in RAW you need to PP any shot you want to keep. Very little processing is done by the camera unlike when you shoot jpeg.

 

[enzodm]

If you shoot JPEG, not necessarily, since some basic PP is done directly in camera, basing on some standardized operation.
If you shoot RAW, you always have to do at least the part of PP corresponding to traditional film development. Someone here on the forum compared JPEG to bringing film to a lab, RAW to developing by themselves: more freedom but also more work.
At time of development, it becomes usual to help the picture be like you wanted to (e.g., if it is leaning, why not straightening it?). All things always done also by traditional photographers in dark room. Of course, the better is taken since the beginning, the better will be the final product.

As I shot RAW, 100% of my pictures needs PP (through free Canon software or, recently, Lightroom). Then, some needs straightening, many needs slight recomposition but only few some major recomposition (typically when I try to recover something from a picture badly shot since the beginning), a fair number need some work on dark areas. I also play with skin softening/eye sharpening in wife portraits (if not, she will no more act as a model for me ).

 

[cliffy13]

I always shoot Raw in my DSLR so I always PP but I do the same with my compact even though it produces jpegs I feel they always need a touch up.As far as photoshop goes you dont actually need it as there are much cheaper offerings around and many good free PP software applications