Editing tools for photography, more like a small lie.

Editing tools for photography, more like a small lie.

  These tools really improve your photos, no really they do. Well maybe they do and maybe they don't but still everyone uses them at one time or another. From the person who spends days on one photo or the person that spent ten minutes on cropping out something.  The abuse and the lack of when to edit is obvious when you see so much of these days. More or less the gist is what to use when editing photos, what do you use and why? In today's world of photos everyone is snapping photos and dumping them to the internets with out any concerns for others eyeballs.  Persons that does edit some of the photos prior to posting to the internet is  always trying to convey a difference from the original content of the photos taken. We all  want a better looking photo and the world deserves it, right. Take the phone photo of that hamburger and throw on some cross-process and vignette and bam the lie is there for all to see. If you look at a large corporations you don't see a lot the hipster-y stuff but instead more technical editing, a very large array of spectrum of editing out there. 

   What tools should you use? How do I pick the right tool/software? First go and look at at everything, magazines, advertisement on signs, billboards, menus and on and on. Get familiar with what looks good to you and what looks like something you want to avoid. From this point on you need more than one tool, go to a mechanics garage, see all of them freaking tools. They don't use only pliers for every job, or a hammer . Be a fact they are not only using many tools but many different brands. You are aware that many editors use a primary software but there is always another software. One may do vignette with a slider or a larger color wheel or different brushes  but each one has something you may need. Take a photo, edit in one software, then edit in another and try it another, results are similar but each adds another element to your edit. So, you need more than one tool. .

   Having  several tools/software programs is essential  and don't let some ass munch convince you that you need to spend hundreds of dollars just to edit. You should considered asking others on what software they use and if they only use one, avoid them. Most likely those people feel above others and are far superior, or to afraid break away from whatever trend they follow, example PS CS6 and Bamboo.  Those people feel the need be very pretentious and lack a lot but do love to over edit, with the rave of how great they are. That last sentence is very common in the photography arena but a tool is a tool, right. Ego plays a lot more to the editing process, than you may think. Ok, blah.

  Go for the  editing tools like Getpaint.net, Getgimp.com, Microsoft's photo manager, Picassa and Elements. Don't let people tell you these tools suck, they work great. I have had people tell me that these tools suck and it's always from someone that doesn't know how to use it. Software engineers have spent decades on creating these tools. So, the suck most likely comes from a user, whom really needs more of a status symbol versus good editing tools.  Go find the tools on the internet or go to store or wherever but you need several tools . Create at the magic lie for your photos, this maybe the only lie you can do, so do it well.

The tragedy you see in the news one day. Photographer gets trample to death by  flowers, a photographer took another photo of flowers and they uprooted and trample all over the photographer. Photographer dies from over saturation, while taking a photo of a rainbow a photographer stared into the rainbows color to long and gets saturated. Photographer gets paper cut from a photo when scrolling thru an internet album.