I agree with Moose. Stick with the the free stuff which will certainly
handle what the beginner will be interested in and perhaps even much
more. The biggest advantage of PS Elements is ACR, layers and extensive
help info on the web. But, when he first opens the box, he's a long,
long way from requiring that. Viewer 3's help file and some basic
explanations from you should be sufficient.
I suspect that my wife's opinion of my photos is probably typical of
many people. She doesn't understand why I spend so much time working on
photos... she thinks they're fine just as they came from the camera.
Blown highlights, blocked up shadows and many other forms of
photographic ugliness don't bother her one bit. Your brother may be the
same. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/31/2014 9:22 PM, Moose wrote:
On 5/31/2014 3:16 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
Based on research and recommendations from The Helpful Moose, I've
ordered
the E-PM2 kit with the two lenses.
He's on Windows. Also not (at least now) in need of something like
Lightroom.
Need a recommendation for something fairly inexpensive that has some
controls, but is also easy enough for a beginner to use. Preferably,
with
the ability to handle RAW at a future date once they start digging in
more.
What's wrong with Oly Viewer 3?
Free with the camera.
Excellent on color, noise and decent sharpening.
For anyone who uses the camera settings for color, contrast, sharpen,
etc. on JPEGs, the default results from Raw conversion will be like what
they are used to.
Doesn't do much in the way of highlight recovery, but if someone gets
that far, they may be looking for something else.
The usual array of sliders, Ala LR and everybody else, with which one
may improve images, and likely often enough make them worse.
K.I.S.S. Moose
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