Have you ever thought that you just found the perfect digital photography software? You got excited and said that you have finally found what you were looking for. Of course you did…I did…many times! After a while however, I noticed that the reason for my changing the digital photography software was different. Read on to find out.
A little bit about my own journey among digital photography software
I started like mostly everyone who buys a new digital camera. I started using the software that was coming with my first Canon digital camera. It made a lot of sense…I bought a camera and I just used their software. Actually, Canon’s Zoom Browser was and still is a very good piece of software. My wife still loves it and uses it every day.
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After a few more months of navigating my growing digital photo collection, I really needed a simpler and faster software. I was also looking for some easier way to do some simple editing for my pictures. So, I got into Adobe Photoshop elements, which was great for editing my pictures, but was terrible for just organizing my pictures. Hmmm…what’s next?
Then I found Picasa, which really seemed like the perfect software: beautiful user interface, very easy to use picture effects as well as lots of other options that I didn’t really understand at first. Picasa worked well only for a little while, because I didn’t really have a way to look directly at my folders. So, I went back to Zoom Browser…for a while.
I was really looking to find a simple and fast software that would allow me to transfer and rename my pictures very quickly and easily. Didn’t care too much about editing my pictures…just wanted to be able to see and edit my folders and move them fast. That’s when I found FastStone Image Viewer. I loved this little piece of software and I still use it most of the times.
About a year ago I started getting into adding tags to my pictures. FastStone was and still is not ready for this. It serves a different purpose. This is when I really started using XnView to add image tags and captions to my images. Well I added some metadata to some of my images.
Hmmm…but what about editing my pictures. Well, Fast Stone was great for very small edits, XnView is just great for a lot more complicated edits. But the de facto image editor is Adobe Lightroom. I love this program and I get to play with it because their version 3 Beta is free to download.
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