# Digital photo editing software suggestions?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 28, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-photo-editing-software-suggestions/623297 "2012-05-28T00:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-photo-editing-software-suggestions/623297/21 "2012-06-01T18:32:46Z")

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> [@kannushi](#):
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> I also regularly use Nik Software Color Efex Pro / Silver Efex Pro / HDR Efex Pro depending on the final look I’m after.
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> Occassionally I’ll use Photoshop, although with the above software that’s mainly only for panorama shots recently.
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> Here’s an example that uses Lightroom + Photoshop + Color Efex Pro:  
> [http://www.flickr.com/photos/alessan\_dt/7285177570/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/alessan_dt/7285177570/)

Nice shot. I guess I’ll circle back and check out the Nik offerings after I acquaint myself with Lightroom as a baseline. But you bring up another point, about stitching panoramas: the AutoStitch app on my iPhone seems to do a much better job than the Canon bundled stitcher. Are you saying Photoshop (not Lightroom) is the software you used to do the stitching in the above finished picture?

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**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/digital-photo-editing-software-suggestions/623297/22 "2012-06-01T18:47:26Z")

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> [@Bartman](#):
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> … I would really recommend the OP retry Lightroom… or its competitor Aperture. They are the first software tools I would recommend any photographer pick up.
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> But back to the OP. How easy would it be to do your edits?
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> The vignetting? The filtering? That kind of thing is dead simple to do. Both Lightroom and Photoshop have plenty of preset effects. And there are thousands more available online for free.
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> The borders? That is a bit harder… especially in Lightroom. But again you can find them online and once you have set them up, it is pretty easy to do.
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> The text? Easy in Photoshop… doable but not easily in Lightroom.

Can you explain what you mean by the borders being available online? You mean as add-on filters to either LR or Photoshop, or yet another tool that can add border effects to pictures?

It does seem like the sort of thing that could or should be rolled into just one photo editing app - the color and exposure modification, trimming, cropping and angle rotation that my free DPP software does just fine; then add in panoramic stitching, filtering and border effects and text labeling (font and placement) and simple graphical objects like adding circles and arrows (which I currently use Windows Paint to do), and saving with a new file name while rendering to JPG, leaving the orginal RAW image untouched.

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