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Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud), combined with LightRoom
(starting at $9.99/month for an individual subscription plan; $119.88/year)
Adobe (www.adobe.com/plans/photography.html)
A+ Photoshop is the definiti e photo-editing software product. It provides comprehensive editing capability along with a full family of related products including both photographic and video management tools. As mentioned previously, it carries an extremely high learning curve and demands true perseverance for mastery. Photoshop CC is a complete set of professional tools for retouching, compositing, and editing down to the pixel level.
Photoshop’s Lightroom product offers a simplified, automated, and speedy approach to digital photo post-processing, using a similar approach to some of the mid-range products mentioned later in this chapter. It has powerful photo file collection management tools and image-sharing functionality. Lightroom works across a number of platforms, including desktop computers, lap tops, tablets, and even smartphones.
Photoshop is supported by a wide range of commercial workshops and courses, online tutorials, educational websites, YouTube videos, and the like. It also offers add-on capabilities, accepting many third-party functional additions that markedly increase its ability to perform complex specialized effects and processes.
Adobe has recently moved to subscription or rental pricing for its software, as opposed to the premium-price licensing approach they previously employed. You cannot subscribe only to the basic Lightroom application, however; this tool is available as a component of Photoshop CC for the basic $9.99 monthly individual subscription price.
(starting at $9.99/month for an individual subscription plan; $119.88/year)
Adobe (www.adobe.com/plans/photography.html)
A+ Photoshop is the definiti e photo-editing software product. It provides comprehensive editing capability along with a full family of related products including both photographic and video management tools. As mentioned previously, it carries an extremely high learning curve and demands true perseverance for mastery. Photoshop CC is a complete set of professional tools for retouching, compositing, and editing down to the pixel level.
Photoshop’s Lightroom product offers a simplified, automated, and speedy approach to digital photo post-processing, using a similar approach to some of the mid-range products mentioned later in this chapter. It has powerful photo file collection management tools and image-sharing functionality. Lightroom works across a number of platforms, including desktop computers, lap tops, tablets, and even smartphones.
Photoshop is supported by a wide range of commercial workshops and courses, online tutorials, educational websites, YouTube videos, and the like. It also offers add-on capabilities, accepting many third-party functional additions that markedly increase its ability to perform complex specialized effects and processes.
Adobe has recently moved to subscription or rental pricing for its software, as opposed to the premium-price licensing approach they previously employed. You cannot subscribe only to the basic Lightroom application, however; this tool is available as a component of Photoshop CC for the basic $9.99 monthly individual subscription price.
