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Why do we need PS, Lightroom etc?
Jan has just downloaded a photo organiser APP onto her iPad....for £2.99. It enables her to create albums, sort images, title, add meta tags, etc on her 1500 images. But it also has 'basic' editing functions. Ok you get simple sliders rather than curves and levels and you need to be careful in your adjustments, but perfectly adequate. It's even got layer masks of sorts!
One of the key raison d'etre of programmes like PS is to optimise images for output to print. If you don't intend to ever print your images it surplus to requirement.
This may be heresy coming from my 'pro background ...but I am starting to doubt the need for top end software. My eyes tell me if an image looks right on the screen...if it's only ever going to be viewed thus, why bother with the Rolls Royce programmes any more?
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Eric