Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 364674" data-attributes="member: 9240">I'll say it time and again, if I had to use only one piece of PP software it would be Lightroom.&nbsp; It's not only a powerful and straight forward post processing tool, it also has a ton of other functions from catalog and workflow management to printing and presentation.&nbsp; The controls may look a tad daunting at first, but they are the simply the fundamentals of light manipulation that you want - no NEED - to learn as a digitial photographer.&nbsp; And while you have many tools at your disposal you can easily live with just the Basicpanel in the Develop module if you wanted and expand out into the rest (it's what I did).If you want free, download the free trial and give it a shot.&nbsp; It's not expensive as a standalone purchase, but at $9.99/month with the CC offer I would recommend buying it that way, particularly since you get to keep the catalog and print functionality from it if you decide to cancel your subscription.&nbsp; Then get on YouTube and the Adobe sites, and just search for video tutorials on each module (i.e. &quot;How to use the LR Basic Module&quot;, &quot;LR Adjustment Module&quot;, &quot;LR Sharpening&quot;, &quot;LR Noise Reduction&quot;) as you want to grow.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 364674, member: 9240"] I'll say it time and again, if I had to use only one piece of PP software it would be Lightroom. It's not only a powerful and straight forward post processing tool, it also has a ton of other functions from catalog and workflow management to printing and presentation. The controls may look a tad daunting at first, but they are the simply the fundamentals of light manipulation that you want - no [I][B]NEED[/B][/I] - to learn as a digitial photographer. And while you have many tools at your disposal you can easily live with just the [I]Basic[/I]panel in the Develop module if you wanted and expand out into the rest (it's what I did). If you want free, download the free trial and give it a shot. It's not expensive as a standalone purchase, but at $9.99/month with the CC offer I would recommend buying it that way, particularly since you get to keep the catalog and print functionality from it if you decide to cancel your subscription. Then get on YouTube and the Adobe sites, and just search for video tutorials on each module (i.e. "How to use the LR Basic Module", "LR Adjustment Module", "LR Sharpening", "LR Noise Reduction") as you want to grow. [/QUOTE]

Verification