Samsung Note 3 vs Surface 2 RT - editing

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bboysmax

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Right, first and foremost, i would like to point out i am no professional photographer or editor. I like my photos to have very little edits as possible and i always shoot jpeg. The most editing i will do is contrast, saturation and maybe sharpness.

So. I currently have a Samsung Note 3 as my phone and a Surface 2 RT, but I am hoping to get rid of the Surface.

Which is better for photo editing?

Real estate aside, I have a huge amount of good enough android apps available and on my Surface there is a few decent editing app on the store.

I would carry my phone everywhere with me along with my camera, but rarely take my Surface out of the house, therefore have to waot to edit my photos.

Obviously, the Note 3 has a Super AMOLED display, which as some of you may know tends to show alot of saturation compared to other screens. Whereas the Surface 2 has a 1080p IPS display which should emit more natural colours.

Which would you honestly recommend to keep?

Please dont say sell and get this, or get a proper peice of editing hardware and software.
 
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Eyelight

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If you can get Photoshop Express for both, I would try it on both and make the decision. I use it on a windows phone and an Android tablet. Works fairly well on both.
 
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RocketCowboy

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I don't have experience using either Android or Windows RT for editing, but my first response would be to stay with Android and go from there.

There is not a lot of active development with Windows RT which leaves the Surface RT a bit stranded. I'm dealing with the same issues at work when trying to use the Surface RT as a portable laptop/tablet, but the Surface Pro is where the developers went since they can use that work across more devices. Android has a very active developer base as well, so I would expect options there like Lightroom Mobile which we have for iOS.
 
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Bill16

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I'm using Photoshop touch on my android tablet, and it seems to works awesome for jpeg format! But I shoot raw now and it doesn't handle that! Lol :)
Photoshop express sounds interesting! I might check that out too! :) Thanks @Eyelight buddy! :D
 
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ShootRaw

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Do yourself a favor and please shoot raw..You can only do slight editing on jpeg anyway. A jpeg will fall apart with heavy editing...You are really limiting yourself shooting jpeg..Just sayin..
 
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bboysmax

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ShootRaw said:
Do yourself a favor and please shoot raw..You can only do slight editing on jpeg anyway. A jpeg will fall apart with heavy editing...You are really limiting yourself shooting jpeg..Just sayin..
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To be honest I've always liked the idea of shooting RAW but never really understood the full benefit of it for minor edits.

I have like no experience with RAW shooting apart from shooting RAW at weddings and handing them to the editing team!

I am mai ly thinkong about the screen, is Super AMOLED reliable for editing?
 
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