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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Perfect your images anywhere you are with the tools the pros use. Join the Creative Cloud Photography plan* to create fuller panoramas, straighten skewed shots, edit raw photos right on your smartphone or tablet and learn fast with helpful tutorials.
Just US$9.99/mo
I believe this service is available for a desktop computer also (Windows and Mac). Taxes are around 12%.
What are your thoughts.
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Pillar of the Community
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Not sure if the plan suits coins. For the annual cost, photo shop elements may be cheaper
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Forum Dad
 United States
24161 Posts |
I will never buy another adobe product ever. They've gone to this monthly cloud crap for their entire lineup now. Huge ripoff. I'm still using Dreamweaver CS3 because I refuse to bite. I REFUSE to rent software. Stupid.
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Moderator
United States
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That's $9.99/Mo more than I spend on software every bit as sophisticated as Adobe's best effort.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1298 Posts |
SsuperDdave, what imaging software do you use. Thanks, Ham.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1374 Posts |
New to the forum, but I'll give it a shot!
I use GIMP (free, but donations accepted/welcome) for all my graphic needs, including touching up coin photos.
For coins, I mostly use it to correct photo skew, auto white balance and circle crop, but it has many more features. I'm told it can do most of what Photoshop can do, but I've never used Photoshop.
You might want to take GIMP for a spin before shelling out $120 a year forever.
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Moderator
United States
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SsuperDdave, what imaging software do you use. Thanks, Ham. I think he uses GIMP as well. I have used GIMP and still have it on my Linux box. It is pretty powerful, but for most CCF stuff I use Paint.net on my Windows laptop. |
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Rest in Peace
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I use a very old copy of Adobe Photoshop. I've had it since early 2000's have used it on all my photo manipulations necessary, including resizing to fit here. Dump pix from camera, scope and remote drives directly. Have used it since Win98 to XP, Now Win7 with no problems other than me being computer dumb!
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Valued Member
United States
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My best friend could probably shoot for a living, amazing photos. He's big on the cloud rental software but he shoots a wide variety of subjects in all kinds of locations with a zillion light conditions....to the point. He feels most of the free stuff out there works well for coin shots with practice and observation. I use google Picasa, gets her done.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1298 Posts |
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I have tried Gimp, but found the interface difficult for me. I have Picasa, and Photoshop Elements 12, and have not used them enough to feel comfortable. Ham
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4038 Posts |
I use 5 programs and 1 online tool to do my coin photography editing:
Canon's Digital Photo Professional. Free with Canon Camera. Offers basic editing for crops (including circle), levels, etc plus Canon RAW format. For basic image editing, this is all I use.
Paint Shop Pro 3.12, Shareware for Win98. The last great PSP, but limited in image size. I use it for adding annotations to images to be published online.
Paint.net. Current freeware. I use it for overlays, and any work requiring multiple layers.
Helicon Focus. Yearly license. Used for focus stacking. Comes with Helicon 3D, which I use for 3D rendering.
ezgif.com. Free, online. I use it for making animations.
So all I pay for is Helicon, which is worth every red cent.
I do own Photoshop, Lightroom, and several other misc programs I've tried over the years, but none work better for coins than the basic DPP IMO. All the other programs I use are for "special" applications like stacking or animation.
Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com |
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Pillar of the Community
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Ham1947: If you have elements 12, and you are not familiar with it then a cloud based system would not be useful. Elements 12 is good and one of a few apps that have a circular crop tool(ideal for coins)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks everyone for your help. At this point, I will continue to work with Canon's DPP and Photoshop Elements 12. Ham.
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