What is the best software for photos

FIRST TIME I USED A BLOG. NEED YOUR HELP NOT SURE WHAT PHOTO SOFTWARE I NEED .I HAVE A NIKON D3200 .MACBOOK PRO 15 INCH.WOULD LOVE TO LEARN HOW TO TAKE BETTER PHOTO AND USE THE PHOTO FOR LARGE PRINTS IN OUR HOME AS ART WORK.AS WELL AS PHOTO OF OUR CHILDERN.

Terence and daikambu65 addressed already the software options. But your original questions asks about taking photos:
would love to learn how to take better photo and use the photo for large prints in our home as art work.as well as photo of our childern.
This makes me think, you have not yet taken many photos and just bought a new camera.  If that is right, I'd recommend to focus on learning how to take good photos first.  Even the best software cannot help much, if the photo has been taken badly. Image processing software can turn a very good photo into a perfect photo, but poor photos will never be fit to be framed, even with the best software applied. 
First, try to find out what your camera can do and how to use it.  Explore the effects of the available light on the subjects and the depth of field, how to focus on the eyes of a person. Explore, how your photos  will change due to the perspective - when I am taking photos of little children or animals, for example, I'll go down on my knees, to be able to take the photo eye to eye and not from above.  For photos of buildings I try to find a viewpoint, that will show parallel lines in the building also parallel in the photos. One way to learn how to take good photos is to look at professional photos and compare them to what you are seeing when looking through the viewfinder. Observe, how the photos have been cropped to attract the attention to details, how the light enhances the details, how shapes and colors are used.
If you're new to all this you might find iPhoto - which comes free with your Mac -  a good place to start. It's easy to use and covers all the basics.
I second Terence's suggestion.  iPhoto is a great way to get started with digital photography. I used iPhoto from day one it came out, and only switched to Aperture, when Aperture 3 was available.   iPhoto will help you to keep your photos organized in a library and provides a set of easy to use tools for the most commonly required tools to touch up your photos. Straighten the horizon, enhance the contrast, sharpen the image, crop the photo to the relevant section, retouch minor blamishes. This will cover most of the corrections you will need.
And once you know, what kind of post processing and database structure you really need and want, you can easily switch from iPhoto to Aperture, because both programs are sharing the same photo library format. I am still using both applications in turns on the same library.

Similar Messages

  • Whats the best software for photo editing and creating product catalogues that can be saved as PDF's

    Whats the best software for photo editing and creating product catalogues that can be saved as PDF's

    You are asking two different questiions:
    1. What's a good photo editor? Answer to that here is probably obvious.
    2. What's a good desktop publishing/page layout program for creating PDF files for production? Answer, not PSE. It's a photo editor, not a page layout program.

  • What is the best software for burning a large slideshow with 500 photos and music to DVD?

    What is the best software for burning a large slideshow with 500 photos and music to DVD?

    Are you talking about strictly burning an already put-together slideshow or composing one and then burning it?
    My all time favorite slide show maker is Photo to Movie; you can then burn it from there or get it into iMovie and/or iDVD for the "finishing" touch. My favorite burn software is Toast, although you can use iMovie, iDVD, and Finder as well.
    http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
    http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/

  • What is the best software for home office for mac pro ?

    What is the best software for home office for mac pro ?

    Mac-HaBu X 12.2.0.3.841
    Gnucash 2.4.11
    QuickBooks Pro 2013 14.0.3 R4
    MoneyWorks Gold 6.1r5
    MoneyWorks Express 6.1.r1

  • What's the best software for removing suspected bots on a Mac Pro?

    What's the best software for removing suspected bots on a Mac Pro?

    A reasonable answer to your excessivley broad query, unless you can provide much more context, would take a small book.
    Luckily, Thomas A. Reed has written one:
    http://www.reedcorner.net/mmg/

  • What is the best software for home movie editing

    Have some old home movies that were digitalized from 8mm film to VOB format.  Want to edit and clean them up and reformat into modern mp4/H.264 format. What is the best software/app to use on iMAC running 10.9.2?  Thank you for any suggestion.

    I would expect that iMovie would be quite adequate for this. If you find it lacking, or if you're just curious, take a look at Final Cut Pro X. There is a thirty day, fully functional trial download so you can find out first and whether it's worth $300 for your purposes.
    Russ

  • What is the best software for creating SCC/MCC files for closed captioning in Premiere pro?

    I have experiemented with the demo version of MacCaption to create SCC/MCC files that I am importing into Premiere Pro for Closed Captioning. It seems to work okay, but before I purchase it I was wondering if it is the best software choice for my workflow? Would anyone recommend something different? Thanks!

    PMJI, but I recently started using a program called Subtitle Edit (http://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/) not to be confused with another program called Subtitle Editor. 
    Subtitle Edit is open source, full featured and supports dozens of file types(in/out and convert).  I use it in conjunction with our Accordent(now Polycom) Capture Station webinar systems.  I haven't used in conjunction with AdobeCS products yet, but it does list Encore and Captivate in it's I/O list.  It's definitely worth a look-see.

  • What is the best software for video fish-eye/barrel reduction?

    I recently bought a GoPro camera and would like to reduce the fish-eye/barrel effect on some of the video clips. I haven't been able to find any plug-ins or software for mac's that can do this. I was hoping to do all my video editing with iMovie but it doesn't seem to have everything I need. What do you recomend?

    See this Wikipedia article for some encoders:
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora#Encoding

  • What's the best size for photos?

    What's the optimum image size for the iPod Nano? I'd like to transfer images as small as possible.

    I believe if you are only transferring the images and not the full-resolution photos, iTunes does the optimization for viewing so the pics will be small. You have a choice within the iTunes preferences.

  • What is the best software for the Panoroma feature?

    Does anyone have any tips on what software they use, and how to set up a camera for this feature at all please?
    Cheers

    Photoshop and Pano2vr are usually used to create the six source images for panoramas.
    This article includes links to a couple of different resources:
    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/digitalpubsuite/using/WS9293e1fb3b977c5c73657495129f66e490f-7f fd.html
    There is an example or two of panoramas in DPS Tips > Basic Overlays.

  • What is the best software for converting video files to .ogg format?

    In trying to html5 compliant I want to convert my video files to the .ogg format. After a lot of searching for video converters, I cannot find one that does this; although several claim to but actually don't. Converting audio isn't so much of a problem. So, can you suggest a tool for converting video files to .ogg format?

    See this Wikipedia article for some encoders:
    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora#Encoding

  • What is the best software for creating simple forms for the internet? I am currently using an oldversion of Dreamweaver for web authoring.

    I am currently using and old version of Dreamweaver for web content, but need  a simple way of creating forms for my web site. I am not all that web savy...just enough to be dangerous.

    how about coda?

  • I would like to create pages for our yearbook what is the best software

    I would like to create pages for our yearbook what is the best software - pages does seem limited.

    fruhulda wrote:
    Network 23 wrote:
    Keynote...it could make a book, but it's probably questionable whether you'd want to manage hundreds of pictures and lots of pages with it.
    Why is that questionable?
    Because Keynote does not have the industrial-strength tools to handle long form text and large numbers of graphics. When you make a long or complex document, you sometimes have to go in and fix problems in bulk, like text formatting, or updating graphics, or finessing the layout on 200 pages, things like that. A program like InDesign can deal with it through things like paragraph styles, character styles, table styles (not one-off styles, but the kind that let you update a style name and have all text that uses that style update across all pages), or a powerful link manager that lets you keep graphics outside the document so you can easily update them by reference, in bulk if needed. InDesign also has some great tools like the ability to import multiple photos at once and have them place on the layout as a nice yearbook-style grid, the instant they land on the page, without having to arrange them after they come in.
    Finally, an app like InDesign knows how to print to a commercial press, or how to produce a press-ready PDF. Keynote has no idea.
    A yearbook can run a couple hundred pages and involve hundreds of photos. I would not touch such a project with anything that wasn't truly up to the task. The best software would be InDesign or QuarkXPress. Word is not good enough. Pages is not good enough. You will tear your hair out as you fix problems on page after page, photo after photo. Keynote would probably be laughable for a yearbook. I use Keynote for presentations, Keynote is the best at what it does. A yearbook is nothing like a presentation.

  • I'm wifilooking at purchase a ipad2 3G/and I was wondering can I transfer DVDs (from a TV series for instance) from my Macbook pro. If so what is the best software. I already have Popcorn and Titanium toast. Thanks

    I'm looking at purchase a ipad2 3G/wifi and I was wondering can I transfer DVDs (from a TV series for instance) from my Macbook pro. If so what is the best software. I already have Popcorn and Titanium toast. Thanks

    THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY, I DOWNLOADED HANDBRAKE BUT WOULDN'T LET ME USE IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE VLC WHICH I DID. WHEN I FINALLY GOT HANDBRAKE TO WORK I SELECTED THE DVD FOR SOURCE AND IT STARTED SCANNING. A HALF HOUR LATER IT SAID NOT RECOGNISE SOURCE. TAKE IT IS ENCRYPTED.
    <Edited by Host>

  • What is the best software metrics for ORDBMS?

    hi
    What is the best software metrics for ORDBMS?
    where can I get information about "Oracle & Software metrics"?
    sincerely yours
    dan

    Hi,
    www.oracle.com
    Regards,
    Sailaja

Maybe you are looking for

  • Adobe Bridge has been deleted and needs to be re-installed. How can this be done without reinstallin

    Adobe Bridge has been deleted and needs to be re-installed. How can this be done without reinstalling the entire CS5

  • I cannot attached my file in mail

    Hi I have been trying to sent attached file by using mail. but it cant be done? Any help

  • My home page keep changing to go.webalta.ru

    I have set my home page to eurosport, but every time I open the FireFox, it opens go.webalta.ru. I have already tried to restart the FF using "Troubleshooting" option. I have scanned and deleted what was found.But some of them coming back.

  • Help with JSP and JSTL tag

    I am trying to accomplish the following -display a checkbox if the phrase "platinum" appears in a string -display a radio button otherwise Here is my code: <c:when test="${fn:containsEqualIgnoreCase(${product.description}, 'platinum' })}">           

  • Another audio problem

    Ok, been reading the boards and thought I had figured it out. I have a Playstation 3 with Netflix and Hulu both of which play audio when the program has it in surround whereas the ATV does not. Both PS3 and ATV are connected to the same receiver the