Photo editing software

[Bryn]

This.

There's a reason these products are the industry standard.

For many professionals there is no alternative to Photoshop, as they may require 100% Smart Object compatibility.

But if you don't have that specific requirement, Affinity Photo will work for most professionals and prosumers. Check out their website if you aren't clued up about it. It's serious software and I find it easier to do advanced edits with it than Photoshop. I also find the Inpaint tool (their equivalent of Content Aware) to be far superior, which makes a big difference to my life.

Adobes whole push to Monthly subs makes me avoid it like the plague.

You don't have to suffer inferior software though to avoid Adobe subs. Check out Affinity Photo mentioned above. Once-off price.

 

[shan13]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the useful advise.

Action Cam: SJ CAM SJ6 Ledgend (I got this as I was on a budget and at the time I wanted something for snorkelling - so if something happened to it, I wouldn't feel like I wasted a ton of cash).
Unfortunately with the cheap Chinese cams, you don't get any software.
The plus is that I can shoot the photos in RAW.

Going to investigate Affinity and the LR + PS subs as well as Lightworks for the video editing.

If any of you have done anything similar, I would be keen to see the end results.

 

[AlphaJohn]

.... Going to investigate Affinity .....

If you wanna try like me before you buy, I found a link to get a trail copy over at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/signup/trial/photo/

 

[shan13]

If you wanna try like me before you buy, I found a link to get a trail copy over at https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/signup/trial/photo/

Much appreciated. Will do that instead of spending the money upfront.

 

[backstreetboy]

Can always try out Corel?

This. Been using Paintshop pro since yonks.