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What do you use for editing photos and videos?

I'm not offended. I've been doing it PS way since 1995 and trying to change is a bit hard. I know it's a mindset, but if I want a path, sometimes it's far easier for me to grab a bezier tool. That's the other problem with Gimp. Too many settings for the tool. I know what jitter and all the rest are - but Painter had all those settings and I couldn't use that, either. Adobe has them, but PS shows you how the tool will work before you use it. I think Corel has Painter now, nice program, but settings and not having an actual size brush drove me crazy.

We learned also to set up for 4 color printing and the press. That's another disadvantage of Gimp. I do calendars and a few other things as gifts from my photos. I used to use PageMaker and switched to Indesign. I can use Photoshop and Illustrator within Indesign. Linux doesn't seem to have anything like Quark or Pagemaker or a design suite. Inkster is very good, but getting everything to cooperate ----

I use Camera Raw. I mostly shoot in RAW as the camera tends to overprocess JPGS by the time I print. I think it was DigiKam that did have something very similar to Adobe Camera Raw. I could see the histograms, the curves worked, etc. I might have to switch to using that as PS5 won't support the SX50, and I'm not upgrading any more. I'll just have to get used to saving stuff as lossless PNG.

Canon's DPP is a POS.

The other reason I use Photoshop is more control over the printing. I do my own and bought a printing program QImage that does very well with my Canon. Program available only for Windows.
 
I always find Photoshop to be a bit of a challenge when I try and use it on the school PCs. 1) I'm not really familiar with it. 2) It's all in Chinese.

I have GIMP on my own computers because I'm using Linux not Windows.
 
general eclect said:
My needs are quite simple, mainly cutting video and replacing the camera's audio with an externally recorded soundtrack (the on board mic on the Nikon is shite), and cropping and resizing of images.
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If you're using a DSLR to record video, you really should invest in a good quality mini shotgun microphone to use with it. I wouldn't dream of using the internal microphones in my small handheld camcorder! And my large one is made for use with shotgun mkies, with XLR jacks and a shock mount.

Something like this:

Que Audio Usa

Que Audio QVIDEO KIT LITE Mini Shotgun Microphone Kit for DSLRs, HD Camcorders | Full Compass

That microphone is really tiny compared to a large professional shotgun microphone, but a whole lot better than any cheap internal microphone. It's the very least you can do to bring your audio quality up to the level of your video quality.

It's like using a real hot shoe flash. Sure the little flip-flash that's built into new cameras is better than nothing, but nobody who takes decent photographs uses them as their primary flash. So just like a good external flash is the first accessory that you buy for a SLR still camera, a good shotgun mike is the first accessory to buy for a video DSLR.
 
Would anyone recommend me just learning how to use PS?

Otherwise, I think I'll start using GIMP from now on :P

Also, does anyone use Adobe Bridge?
 
not sure. PS costs around the same as CorelDRAW!. around $500-700 while GIMP has much the same function and is free. and i have noticed that in certain distros GIMP looks different meaning that it can adapt and change much like any Android variant. i am sure GIMP can be made to look exactly like PS if you wanted it to
 
Bridge is mostly just a browser. It will preview most photos on your camera, but if you shoot RAW, you will open in Camera RAW, most anything else opens in PS.

It can do light sorting, and cataloging like Lightroom. I prefer Bridge as it doesn't insist on albums. I can sort the way I want.
 
I originally got PS as educational. I've just upgraded. Adobe made an offer for Illustrator 7 years ago and I bought the promotion. Same with Indesign. So upgrading isn't too bad. I'm not upgrading any more. Most of the new stuff in Adobe is more fluff for some of us who used to do things basically. Nor do I like the stupid subscription thing they are pushing.

I had the whole Corel Suite when they first started. A really good promotion. I've seen it since as Coreldraw is being used by digitizing software. Somehow Corel and WordPerfect merged. Corel was Canadian.

If you don't really use layers, try Gimp or Elements. I've had over 25 layers going at times.
 
Can bridge view photos from different folders?

The only time I've used layers so far in PS is when trying to apply certain effects- I find how-to's on the Interweb :D

edit: Would I still be able to "content aware fill" in GIMP?
 
Just when I thought that I'd never want to deal with photo editors, I see a cool animated GIF in the Car Cam topic. Has anyone here made animated GIF (or JPEG2000) files out of video? If so, how can I do it? Preferably using FOSS...
 
Believe it or not, I use basic PowerPoint to edit all of my images...I can do it faster there than on Photoshop, sad I know..

And videos? Never edit those D: should probably learn
 
Would everyone still pick GIMP over PS Elements?

edit: add into the equation Vivitar's Image experience which I just realised I got free with my tripod :D
 
I now use Windows Movie Maker on my Windows 8 computer. For images, I'll probably get Gimp for Windows 8 because it's free.
 
Started my first edit with GIMP. First impressions are that I am definitely a noob - I'm following a guide, and I need another guide to follow it!

and here they are, after about 20-30 minutes in GIMP:


 
Just a quick question: I know a way to remove objects in GIMP is to use the clone tool... Problem is I need to remove an object thats held over a tie - so I can't use anything to clone the pattern of the tie. Is there anything I can do ?
 
Yes you can select a bit of the tie and put that piece on a new layer and position it over the offending whatsit. Then erase what is not need on the tie patch layer.

I use Gimp and Vegas BTW.
 
I'll upload the picture, but I'm not sure if I can still do it. I'll also look to see if I can get a higher resolution picture - that might help ^_^
 
I tried GIMP a bit, but I actually found it pretty hard to use. Maybe it's because I got slightly used to Photoshop....
 
And you want to get rid of the spoonman the henna girl is holding? It doesn't look like you have enough information from the tie.

Gimp is easy. Just watch some tutorials on each skill and you have it down in no time.

In vBonsai I edited all the images in Gimp. Actually of my apps have Gimp work in them.
 
That what I thought . That's fine then, the spoonman will just have to be there :P

I try to follow a guide, but I also needed another guide to use it! I have a feeling that sooner or later I'll be coming back to GIMP. Probably when I don't wanna buy the next version of PS :P
 
If you have access to said tie, you can photograph it and then steal the pattern off that picture. Try to get the same angle off course but if you can then you can change the aspect of it with the skew tool.

Even my avatar was edited in Gimp to add the frame and make the tank look like it's coming out of it. The actual picture was modeled in the ever so smexy Blender!

With Blender and Gimp, I am powerful. (For a nerd)
 
I was thinking I might be able to do something along the same lines... But I'll have to see whether I can get a picture of that tie. It'd have to be in similar lighting though right?
 
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