I wasted enough time looking at photo viewers and JPG editors. The advice that they are all not simple feels true, especially with pondball vouching for it. This is a doddle on Polarr with 4 options (brush, spot fix, gradient and a round tool which is easily moved). I want to be able to make local adjustments too e.g. PE seems to make photos look good easily.īut other than that PE seems a bit too limited. the sharpening is nice- I could hardly get RawTherapee to make an image sharper and I could make images as sharp as I liked in Darktable, but the amount of noise it created compared to PE was massive.
It is nicely laid out and I like the noise function and other things work well e.g. and with a little time a patience I am sure you will be able to achieve the results you strive for! No matter what app you choose you can do no better than re-read what RyanM said above. It also has a fully functioning 30 day trial and a very good collection of short and sweet video tutorials. It is not a true DAM in the LR/catalogue sense of DAM, but it's organizational tools have enabled me to view, cull, tag/keyword,edit and enjoy more of my photos than any of the other photo editing apps in recent years. EX3 has many film based Presets that allow you to achieve some exceptional results. Some members have complained that it's highlights and shadows don't have as much effect as they do in say, LR or ON1. I decided I liked Alien Skin's Exposure X3 because it allowed me to make more subtle changes. Like many here I have tried most if not all. There are quite a number of threads here at mu-43 devoted to 'who's got the best RAW editor' and many more opinions on each. If you open your RAW image in 5 different RAW editors then chances are you will also see 5 distinctly different images appear on your screen. Within specific cameras you can change the look of your "finished" (SOOC - personally hate the acronym) image. Really? As we know every camera processes jpgs differently. At the end one member came up to me and said, "I tried RAW once and I didn't like it!" She was, of course expecting the look of to her RAW image right out of camera to be the same as her camera processed jpg. Click to expand.Truer words were never spoken, Ryan.Ī couple of years ago I did a little workshop on the pros and cons of RAW vs JPG and when and where you might shoot one of the other.