1 any1 know where i can get free photoshop software downloads or similar photo editing software free ta v much!?
I have just taken up photography as a hobby and would also like to know the digital camera you would reccommend (not too expensive!) for a beginner. Thanks again.
Photo Editing Software... get Paint Shop Pro Photo XI I love this and it will be the only program I ever use for all my photo imaging needs. I love this program and I live by it. It has all the bells and whistles you need to make great graphics and edit your pictures.
As for the camera. I have a Kodak EasyShare It's a nice camera and has alot of features with it. I haven't really played with it so I'm not an expert at it yet. Has alot of settings to take pictures, auto, motion, sports, children, nightime, etc. It's a great camera for the 150 dollars I paid for it. Of course if I had the money I would go with the top of the line Canon Rebel. This is my dream camera but cost over 600 dollars.
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Raise your hand if you’re still using a film camera. Come-on now, don’t be embarrassed. OK, finally, some hands over there from that group of photography enthusiasts. You know the ones; film die-hards who create artistic photos in their own basement darkrooms. They’re in short supply these days, but I can appreciate their passion. I developed my first print when I was thirteen. Later in life I taught photography in a program with an on-site photo lab. It was always so exciting to watch an image begin to appear in the developing tray.
But who else is left, beyond the home darkroom camp? How many people continue to use film? I know my mother still does. She uses my daughter’s old film camera and likes the straightforwardness of it. It’s a basic point-and-shoot camera; she pops-in a roll of film, presses the button, takes the film to the store and, presto, an hour later she has 24 prints. She doesn’t have to fool with fancy settings, never worries about accidentally deleting some precious images from last week’s family event and doesn’t even think about using a computer to manage her photos.
The old way is so simple, but just doesn’t fit into the paradigm of today’s high-tech world. It seems that just about anyone you meet these days, fancies him or herself as a serious photographer. And of course we all love the convenience factor of digital photography. For a change of pace, I recently loaded film into one of my old cameras. The first time I pressed the shutter, I immediately looked at the back of the camera. I was shocked by how much I’ve become accustomed to the convenience of an instant playback.
Film is simply inconvenient. People are no longer satisfied with the idea of film’s inherent risk. For those who have been digitally dedicated for several years, the suggestion that they pay for processing before seeing any of their images seems preposterous. Imagine paying up to ten bucks just to find that up to half of your twenty-four photos are, well, not very good (or worse).
Today’s ‘photographers’ are also reluctant to surrender control of their images to anyone else, let alone the kid who works the photo machine in the back of their local supermarket. In order to be a full-fledged member of the digital set, it’s pretty much a given that the savvy photographer needs to adjust each and every image using photo editing software.
Yes, digital photographers have a lot of control over their images. I’m up to my eyeballs in that. Just like most people these days, I shoot way too many photos than need be shot, whether it’s on vacation, at a family gathering or when I’m feeling visually creative. Consequently, I spend far more time than I should, going through those images to make the often-painful decision to delete the pics that don’t make the grade.
But it doesn’t stop there. Eventually photos need to be moved off the cards and into the computer. You know the drill. Wait until the stack of memory cards gets so tall, it looks like a miniature coffee table. When absolutely no more memory is available and you refuse to buy more, it’s time to begin the mind-numbing process of moving your images from the cards to your hard drive in a way that’s somewhat organized. For me, it’s often complicated by the fact that some of the cards contain images I took two or more years ago.
I rarely stop there. Next, I spend even more time cropping and adjusting them. When the process is finished, so much time has passed that the photos may be mistaken for an historical image collection. The entire process is cumbersome, protracted and often overwhelming.
To make matters worse, unless we want to banish the images to the bowels of our computers till eternity, we routinely spend even more time and effort just so that others can see our precious pictures. Unless you have a free-prints-for-life arrangement as a result of blackmailing your photo-processing guy, you’ll have to decide on a representative sample of your mammoth collection from your recent photo event. If you’d rather make a slide show, or better still – a slideshow with music - that will involve even more time in front of a computer screen.
Fast forward to yesterday. I was visiting my parents, when my mother asked, “Steve, when am I going to get at least a few of the pictures you shot during summer vacation for the past few years? Never mind. I won’t even think of asking for the pictures from last weekend’s anniversary party.”
My answer, sadly and as usual, was that I hadn’t yet gotten around to ‘going through’ my memory cards.
Her response floored me. She said she was tired of waiting for me to get around to it, and she handed me a set of photos. She took the liberty of printing a second set from film she just had processed. She said, “Here. You can have these. They’re the pictures from this past weekend’s anniversary party.”
My first thought? Wow, she pops-in a roll of film, presses the button, takes the film to the store and, presto, an hour later she has 24 prints. Now, that is convenient.
1 what photo software should i start with for my photography courses?
Im getting a digital SLR camera and im taking photography classes. should i buy Photoshop cs3..or know of any others thats better price but great quality? i have a desktop with Vista incase that matters. Ive used photo editing software but basic stuff.
If you are enrolled in a photography school, ask the instructor. If you are a student, you should be eligible for student discounts on almost any software. You might have to send in proof, or show a student ID, but it would be worth it. (I know Photoshop CS3 is only around $150 with educational pricing)
If you are willing to spend the time to learn it, Photoshop would be the way to go. Photoshop Elements has most of the features of its big brother, and in some respects a nicer user interface. It can be had for around $100 ($35 educational). You might also want to take a look at LightRoom. Your DSLR should also come with a basic editing software / RAW converter.
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1 can i find a software for digital photography, that replace kodachrome 64 for film photography?
i love the overtones of kodachrome 64 and i wonder if i can find in digital era something similar. thank you!
I was lucky and I managed to shoot 7 rolls of Kodachrome before it was discontinued. It was the first time I had ever tried slide film, and I was absolutely amazed. It was awesome, like nothing I had ever seen before.
I have NEVER seen a program do a decent job of "simulating" Kodachrome, or any kind of film for that matter. It just doesn't look anything like the real thing. The colors and tones just don't look right. And it never can. You just can't replicate the look of real silver halide with a computer.
That Alien Skin program is horrible. It's funny though. Everyone wants to try to make digital pictures look like film. Why don't they just use film?? The funniest one is a program called "PolaDROID"...as you probably guessed, it's a program to try to simulate Polaroid pictures. But it's absolutely horrible. It has a really bad green tint with fake vignetting and looks nothing like real Polaroid pictures. Most of the programs that are used to "simulate" film were written by people who probably only used digital cameras and have only a very vague idea of what certain films look like.
Your best bet is to look for an E-6 film that might have a somewhat similar look to Kodachrome. Nothing is going to be exactly like Kodachrome. It was a one-of-a-kind film. But maybe you can find something that's close to it. But you're going to have to use REAL film. You can't fake it with a computer.
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