How often do you utilize photoshop, or another editing program?

[VinnyG113]

How much do you tweak an image in photoshop, or another editing program, provided you don't discover any major blemishes you feel the need to correct? This is primarily in regards to non-model work.


Do you typically make adjustments in hue, saturation, contrast, filtering, etc.? How often do you take a photograph with the intention of playing with adjustments in photoshop? Or are you one who prefers to get the best image taken with your camera, and maybe a tripod, and leave it at that?

Maybe for you, like me, it's all dependent on the mood you're in and how much you feel like experimenting to see what the image would look like with various adjustments, whether or not your keep those adjustments after application.

 

[Nevermore1]

For me it depends on what it is, I also shoot in RAW so I go in and make those adjustments. Otherwise I like to take it as I see it. If it comes out way too under or over exposed and it's something I am unable to re shoot then I will go im amd edit in PS or LR.

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[Msteelio91]

I also shoot RAW so I use Lightroom for that. I don't use photoshop often, usually just when I'm messing around.

 

[ronlane]

VinnyG113,

I was on KelbyOne watching videos the other day. Watching Scott do a travel series where he went from shooting to processing to final product. During the second half, he started with processing and organizing his photos. He uses LR for this process and picked his favorites or rejected ones he didn't like or were OOF. From there he flagged his favorites and then moved them to a collection. He unflagged that collection and flagged the ones he liked best as Picks to be processed. Then he used LR and CS6 to complete his images.

As I was playing with this idea in LR and PSE11, I realized how easy it was to send a file over to PSE to finish it. Prior to this, I was using Nik Collection Software from within LR4 to do most of my editing. Now, I believe that I will use what Scott has taught me and go from LR to PSE and back to do all of that work. It seemed easy and better for my mind.

Now to answer your questions, how many images do I tweak in photoshop or other editing software. Well for me it is ALL of them because I shoot RAW and have to convert them to at least DNG files first.

The quick answer would have been to say ALL the images that people see of my work have been edited.

 

[SpikeyJohnson]

I at least use Lightroom every time. However, with Camera Raw in Photoshop and having picked up a Wacom tablet I think I'll be using Photoshop a ton more. I can do things much faster with a stylus than a mouse and be more precise. So now Photoshop adjustments are just as fast as me going through Lightroom and then I have more power to add a little flair to it.

Edit: Also I agree with the poster before me, I like Lightroom for organizing but I have Windows 8.1 so I have the capability to view my raw files without editing. So I may slowly move from Lightroom to a Windows Explorer / Photoshop workflow.

 

[Scatterbrained]

Every image starts in Lr and is finished in Ps.

 

[ronlane]

I at least use Lightroom every time. However, with Camera Raw in Photoshop and having picked up a Wacom tablet I think I'll be using Photoshop a ton more. I can do things much faster with a stylus than a mouse and more precise. So now Photoshop adjustments are just as fast as me going through Lightroom and then I have more power to add a little flair to it.

I'm jealous of the wacom. I have got to get me one of those. But I need to get Windows 7 or 8 first and then get a subscription to LR5 & CS6.

 

[Braineack]

Probably 95% of my shots on my Flickr are 100% LR edits and processing. Once I'm happy with the processing, I'll maybe run it through Portraiture or some other plugin, then import it into PS for pixel manipulation where needed.

I had to dust of PS for my last set:

I used it to stack my bracketed shots, then I brought it back into LR to run my edits, then back in PS to remove the unwanted stuff:

I need to go back in and fix a few things in the above.

 

[tirediron]

Every image starts in Lr and is finished in Ps.

This. Exactly.

 

[SpikeyJohnson]

I at least use Lightroom every time. However, with Camera Raw in Photoshop and having picked up a Wacom tablet I think I'll be using Photoshop a ton more. I can do things much faster with a stylus than a mouse and more precise. So now Photoshop adjustments are just as fast as me going through Lightroom and then I have more power to add a little flair to it.

I'm jealous of the wacom. I have got to get me one of those. But I need to get Windows 7 or 8 first and then get a subscription to LR5 & CS6.

I was able to get mine cheap from work because they were getting rid of it, but you can get one of the cheaper non LCD ones and they are pretty powerful as well. I kind of wish I had one of them as well so that I could use it on every monitor instead of just the Wacom LCD. They are also much cheaper than the LCD versions.

 

[limr]

I use Corel. No reason except my brother-in-law bought it as a gift for me probably 10 years back and I finally upgraded maybe a year or two ago. I don't do much processing, so it's not worth it for me to spend more money on Lightroom or Photoshop. I will crop and straighten, clone out dust marks, maybe bump the colors or contrast or adjust white balance. I really don't like spending much time on the computer editing. If I have that much work to do to correct something in a photo, that just tells me that I need to spend more time behind the camera!

 

[SCraig]

I don't use Photoshop or Lightroom (by choice since I do own them both) however every image I use does have some level of post processing in Capture NX2.

 

[pjaye]

Never, although I have photoshop and light room. The learning curve is just too steep for me and I hate editing. I use picassa to straighten and crop and that's about it.

 

[cookedpixel]

After I drum scan my film I catalog the frames in Lightroom. After spotting, my adjustments are limited to dodging, burning, a slight crop, straightening, and overall exposure (typically +/- half a stop or less). I use Photoshop and a print profile for getting the file ready to send to an out of state lab for archival fiber prints. While I'm waiting for delivery I fire up the mat cutter.

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[480sparky]

I edit everything that I star-rate.

I have to. I shoot raw.