Photo downloading and munipulation?
Purchased a new HP laptop with windows 10 and need to find a program for downloading photos from SD card and manipulating them. What would you suggest?
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Just for information purposes -- Photoshop (Adobe) the mother of many Pro Photographers recently began a "monthly subscription" service for its photo programs - a most unfortunate development in my opinion. It requires a user to continue paying the monthly fee, or lose the ability to process images.
Soon, we will not be able to buy the Adobe programs, but only use it with a monthly code. I expect some of the other pay photo services will go that route soon if it proves beneficial to Adobe ... then, photo processing programs will own you/us for life.
Some basic programs may remain free with a camera (we hope so) but it seems to become a wave of the future to anchor a user into a monthly fee rather than buy a program and use it. A $110 program in the past will become $10 a month forever, so after a year ($120), the program becomes pure profit and user cost.
Not so sure it benefits the casual user to sign up, even though improvements become a part of the monthly fee, most do not use anywhere near the potential in programs.
So a word of advice -- if you own a photo program of any kind, save it, keep it, treasure it. We may not get another chance.
Soon, we will not be able to buy the Adobe programs, but only use it with a monthly code. I expect some of the other pay photo services will go that route soon if it proves beneficial to Adobe ... then, photo processing programs will own you/us for life.
Some basic programs may remain free with a camera (we hope so) but it seems to become a wave of the future to anchor a user into a monthly fee rather than buy a program and use it. A $110 program in the past will become $10 a month forever, so after a year ($120), the program becomes pure profit and user cost.
Not so sure it benefits the casual user to sign up, even though improvements become a part of the monthly fee, most do not use anywhere near the potential in programs.
So a word of advice -- if you own a photo program of any kind, save it, keep it, treasure it. We may not get another chance.
