Comments on: Advanced Digital Photo Editing on a Budget

By: cspice

cspice — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:37:55 +0000

Actually I never installed the Lightroom demo, I just watched a lot of tutorials on it. But yeah, I did see the retouching features and gradient masks. Lightroom can do a lot, and for photography (as opposed to digital art/painting), it is probably everything you need. For non-students though, it may initially be a better deal to get a Wacom tablet and Elements 7 for $99 than just Lightroom for $299. Especially since the overall power of Elements seems to be higher. As far as I can tell, the only major disadvantage of Elements versus Lightroom is how quickly you can get things done. In terms of video editing, I have no plans to get started with it at this point, but I think it is likely that I will get into video at some point in the future. For now, photography is enough of a challenge!

By: mspice

mspice — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:27:31 +0000

Also, have you done any video editing at all yet. I am curious how Adobe Premiere Elements would work for that. Do you have plans for this at all?

By: mspice

mspice — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:18:54 +0000

Thanks a lot for the post. The Wacom tablet and pen especially seem like they might be very valuable photography retouching tools. As far as software goes, I am still inclined to go with Lightroom as I mostly want to focus on processing pictures quickly and maintaining there “nature as a photograph” as much as possible, but I will have to download the trial of Elements and see how it feels. I assume you used the trial of Lightroom, but just wanted to point out it has various selective editing retouching brushes which emulate and streamline some of the layer and mask capabilities of Elements and Photoshop. Either way, glad you are enjoying photography! It’s a lot of fun!