New to photography

hockeygoalie813

New Member
I'm new to photography and was wondering what the best machine and editor would be. I have read a lot about people using Macs (I have been a long time PC user) but I'm not sure I can spend that much on a new Mac
 

Geoff

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The most important thing for photo editing is a color-corrected display, such as an IPS display. These provide the widest color gamut, have accurate colors, contrast, and brightness, and would make the biggest impact on the final product. For hardware, it really doesn't matter a whole lot, anything that is current will work with Photoshop. The lower the specs, the longer it will take to do certain tasks such as convert RAW to JPG, but they will work.

For software, I'd recommend Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Lightroom.
 

C4C

Well-Known Member
To go back to Mac's being recommended, it's mainly because of the sharper, and brighter image that their Retina display offers.

As Geoff was saying, you can get that in a PC just as easily by getting a nicer monitor then the typical consumer would need.
 

spirit

Moderator
Staff member
Lightroom for processing your RAW files. Awesome software.

You don't *need* a Mac, you just need a nice monitor. Preferably colour calibrated and IPS if you can afford it.
 

Punk

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Staff member
If you don't want to spend money on a software, I've been using UFRaw for quite a while now, it allows you to edit your RAW. I find it even more complete than what you can do in Lightroom (tested last year).
 
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