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Have to admit I use Windows Scanner/Camera to import the pics off the camera or card (always just plugged the camera in but have been using a cheap card reader I bought with my new Rebel and am loving it).
Have been using Paint.net for exposure (while ago though), PhotoShop Elements 7.0 for panoramics, and ACDSee 2.5 for everything else like cropping, resizing, and viewing ( the cropping function excels).
I have a hoarding issue though, and rather than select the few good shots and deleting the rest I figure I can always buy more storage and keep just about every image I take. And I take a lot of frickin shots, just took a beer and camera outside and took 182 pictures of the pups.
Time for a 1TB external soon to replace my 500 GB.
Mark wrote:i use the built in windows picture viewer for looking at pics
Maybe it's just my rig but ACDSee is at least 2x as fast going from image to image as Windows picture viewer. At least. And has a cool function of blowing up whatever image you rest the mouse on, ~2x to maybe 4x. Lets you get a better feel for a given image without actually opening it.
Always looking for something better but it's the best I've found so far.
I'm really liking Photoshop CS4 more and more, the more I play with it. It was a little daunting at first, but I just kept myself playing with it, and it seems like I discover something new on a regular basis.
As far as the hording goes, I'm just as bad. In the year since I got my dslr, I've taken over 10,000 pictures (I've already rolled the internal counter), of which I keep 99.9% (and all the pictures I take are in raw format)...I'll also be getting a 1TB external sometime in the very near future
------ “The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
Indy wrote:
As far as the hording goes, I'm just as bad. In the year since I got my dslr, I've taken over 10,000 pictures (I've already rolled the internal counter), of which I keep 99.9% (and all the pictures I take are in raw format)...I'll also be getting a 1TB external sometime in the very near future
I guess we know what to buy each other for Christmas
Humboldt wrote:I guess we know what to buy each other for Christmas
ain't that the truth
When the shuttle came to town in last month, I shot about 450 pictures in about 2.5 hours. There's a hot air balloon festival going on this weekend here in town that I'll probably shoot several hundred pictures. It's something that I'd have never dreamed of doing back in the day when I was shooting 35mm film. I'd be lucky if I could afford to shoot 6 or 7 rolls in a single outing...
------ “The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
Nice deal Too late tho, I bought my 1TB drive about a month ago
------ “The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
Dan wrote:I'm going to get one on Monday,just for images,
I started messing around with raw last night,I may need your help,
That looks to be a smoking deal.
I need a new external something fierce but have been spending too much money recently. Will argue with myself over the weekend and try to talk myself into buying it
I need a new external something fierce but have been spending too much money recently. Will argue with myself over the weekend and try to talk myself into buying it
a few months ago i got 2 1TB samsung F3 drives for $75 each, and also a e-sata dock to go with them for archiving stuffs, ya just got to watch the online sales
Humboldt wrote:I've been sold on ACDSee since I tried it
ACDSee fan here too. I use Photo Manager 2009. I am a more of a hobby/snapshot photographer. I also do a lot of digital scrapbooking. I used PSE Organizer, Picasa and Bridge before I switched to ACDSee PM- Won't even scrap/edit photos without it.
I think it is really easy to use and I don't have to be a photographer to be able to good editing/exposure fixes etc.
It also runs on my old computer which is nice. Bridge would lock me up in no time.
And I take a lot of frickin shots, just took a beer and camera outside and took 182 pictures of the pups.
