Photo editing Best editing softwares

[Andy Smith]

Mac's are not too dissimilar to windows now price wise with the introduction of the mac M1 & M2 chips, and as far as my experience goes they are a lot more user friendly, but each of us has our own preferences.
As for software, since the update to masking in Lightroom a few months back, I find my workflow has drastically changed and most of my editing is done in Lightroom, with just final flourishes and drastic clean ups done in Photoshop.
I purchased a 10TB external HDD, which i solely use for photo's, importing all into my Lightroom catalogue now and organizing my folders from within Lightroom.
I find this easier now, and very intuitive for my workflow.

 

[Morexp57]

There have been many times that I've thought of buying a Mac. But they are so expensive.... Their displays are so top!

With Apple products, you pay more for brand in my honest opinion.

Yes, I agree, Apple products are expensive. They probably abuse their reputation for quality. But their products are really good quality.

 

[Jack]

Yes, I agree, Apple products are expensive. They probably abuse their reputation for quality. But their products are really good quality.

They are good quality, no doubt, but not for everyone's pocket I guess

 

[markmullen]

I use Capture One Pro, and PS, on Macs.

I grew up with Macs since they were first introduced to the UK (my dad worked at an Apple Reseller) so grew up with all the original models (I've kept a Color Classic for old times sake!) from SE, Plus, Quadras, LCs, Performas, Powerbook, Newton (remember that?), Mac Pro. Now as I am always on the road (usually in the region of 230-250 nights away from home a year but the highest was 290) I use a MacBook Air for light weight.

Software wise when I got back into photography after a break in 2010 I was selling supercars, and doing a lot of photoshoots with car magazines and their staff and freelance photographers. They were all using C1 and I got a copy and it just worked how I expected. I tried Lightroom but could never get on with it. Recently I subscribed to PS and thought I'd give LR another try as it comes free with PS, I acknowledge it's good but I still couldn't get on with it so ended up upgrading my old copy of C1 to their subscription. The newest C1 is so very good I do very little in PS, dust spotting, and tiny bits of pixel level editing, but a good 95-98% of my editing is done in C1, and my final metadata and export is done through C1.

C1 does a good job of handling the DNG files my Sigma DP0 Quattro spits out too, which is good as not all software plays nicely with them.

 

[Jack]

Hi M markmullen

Are you talking about Capture Pro 1? I like Adobe Lightroom, but honestly, I'm not using much PS.