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

[DougGrigg]

I go through a whole process. I will go out for a shoot, typically shoot 2 rolls of film or 60 odd digital images, i will then cull through them via my eye before scanning them in, and/or uploading them to lightroom, i will then star rate the images again to eliminate them down to around 10 images, i will then tweak the chromatic aberation on lightroom before importing into photoshop where layers and curves usually plays a role.

Other than that some subtle dodging and burning.

if im scanning in negatives i will then edit out dust and scratches in photoshop.

after photoshop i will them calibrate the colours to match the printer i am using before printing, experimenting various sizes/ placements on pages for books ect. Before finishing up and presenting my work as exhibition or book.

 

[webestang64]

For my job......I use PS everyday (photo retoucher),,,,personal, sometimes with my color film scans, never with my BW film....that's all done in the darkroom.

 

[slackercruster]

OP...100% of the time.

 

[Msteelio91]

Every image starts in Lr and is finished in Ps.

Care to elaborate on this? I see the advantages of both, but what would you say makes using both necessary?

 

[runnah]

99% of the time, 1% is for Lightroom when I want batch a bunch if photos.

 

[jenko]

I shoot Raw, so yeah ... PS is kinda a must. I don't use LR at all. Nothing against it, just used to PS and don't feel like learning another software program. Bridge can be cluttery, but I'm used to it.

[ ... ] 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.

I love, love, love my wacom. It makes things so much easier, and fun!

Did I mention I love my wacom?

 

[sleist]

100%

Depending on camera:

NEF-> Capture NX2 -> TIFF -> CS6 -> TIFF/JPEG

DNG -> ACR -> CS6 -> TIFF/JPEG

 

[CdTSnap]

I used to use Photoshop all the time, every day. And I know how to use it well. But ive noticed since Ive had Lightroom 5 I very rarely need to use it.

 

[bribrius]

For me a lot of this question would depend on which camera i shoot with. The better camera the less need i have for editing. But with any camera most of my images stay sooc or near sooc. The ones that don't usually just have a bump in contrast or exposure (mostly because i didn't do it in camera beforehand) and are longer focal length and really light driven shots. Anything that would require a lot of editing i throw out. As a walk around shooter my needs are fairly limited and simple. The majority of my images don't get edited other than occasional cropping. But the majority of my images and my outlook isn't a pro or perfection status or concentrating on having the end resulting image the best and can possibly be. i don't even have a full processing program i have a free and very limited one

. I also don't have anyone to make happy (ive made very little money doing this im not a business) so i don't require coming up with a perfect end product free from blemish as many are. Artistically, i don't do a lot of artistic shots either, so my need for post processing isn't very abundant for artistic effects. im also more interested in taking the photos than the end resulted photo in most cases. just using the camera. Most of my control and concern with the finished photo is directly related to actually using the camera not post process.
percentage of my photos that see any editing 10%. percentage of my photos that see significant editing beyond a bump in contrast or exposure maybe 5 %. Percentage that goes unedited at all 90 %. hope this helps. keep in mind everyone's needs are different and most have higher finished product expectations than i and more complicated photography than what i do..

j mostly shoot jpeg as well

 

[Ysarex]

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.

100% of the time just like you and everybody else. You can't create a digital photo without using an editing program.

Joe

 

[bribrius]

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.

100% of the time just like you and everybody else. You can't create a digital photo without using an editing program.

Joe

how so? i copy and paste some things right from my sd card

 

[Scatterbrained]

Every image starts in Lr and is finished in Ps.

Care to elaborate on this? I see the advantages of both, but what would you say makes using both necessary?

My normal workflow would consist of culling initially in the Lr import dialog. Then going through to pick the shot or shots that are going to be edited. In Lr they'll get a camera profile, tone curve, import sharpening, white balance, possibly a few other global adjustments such as highlights and shadows, as well as some dodging and burning. Then it will go into Ps for creative sharpening; clean up via healing brush/clone tool, color grading via gradient map, levels adjustment, more dodging and burning, localized contrast adjustments, and then the color profile conversion before export to Lr. Then in Lr it gets more specific keywording, cropping (unless is was done in Ps, which is where it would get done if a border is being added), and export sharpening.

 

[Ysarex]

Every image starts in Lr and is finished in Ps.

Care to elaborate on this? I see the advantages of both, but what would you say makes using both necessary?

Pardon me if I jump in here: There's a lot that LR can't do for example cloning work. Another example would be making local tone/color adjustments. The adjustment brush and gradient tools in LR are crude by comparison with what's available in Photoshop and sometimes that degree of precision is needed. Often a photo can be completely and satisfactorily processed in LR, but there will always be photos where LR comes up short.

Joe

 

[ronlane]

Every image starts in Lr and is finished in Ps.

Care to elaborate on this? I see the advantages of both, but what would you say makes using both necessary?

Pardon me if I jump in here: There's a lot that LR can't do for example cloning work. Another example would be making local tone/color adjustments. The adjustment brush and gradient tools in LR are crude by comparison with what's available in Photoshop and sometimes that degree of precision is needed. Often a photo can be completely and satisfactorily processed in LR, but there will always be photos where LR comes up short.

Joe

Joe have you used LR5 for the brushes? It's my understanding that they are much improved.

 

[Ysarex]

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.

100% of the time just like you and everybody else. You can't create a digital photo without using an editing program.

Joe

how so? i copy and paste some things right from my sd card

If you use a Nikon camera then you edit your photos using Nikon's Expeed software. If you have a Canon camera you use Canon DIGIC editing software. If you have a Sony camera then you're using Sony's Bionz editing software, and so on and so on. All digital cameras have editing software built in and can only produce a JPEG by using that editing software. You have control of that software. You can edit the white balance, the contrast, the saturation, etc., etc. You can't create a digital photo without editing the sensor capture. Just because you limit yourself to the editing software that's burned onto a chip in your camera doesn't mean your photos aren't edited.

I understand that some people want to draw a distinction between editing a photo on the computer maybe days later versus editing the photo at the time it's taken. But apart from having more time to think about it and superior tools on the computer what's the difference for example between editing the contrast when you take the photo as opposed to later? You can't for example get a JPEG from the camera without setting the white balance. The editing control on the camera is labeled WB and you can typically select a preset value or set a custom white balance or use auto white balance. You have to chose one and that's editing.

People use the term SOOC as if to suggest that the photo is as yet unmolested. By the time you have a camera JPEG a fraction of a second after clicking the shutter you have a heavily edited image and whether you used the adjustment controls in the camera or not that photo has been edited.

Joe