Photo shop software

[6508.froggy]

Can anyone give me direction on good photo software. 

My computer died the other day and some things cannot be retrieved. I was using fantastic photo software but cannot remember what brand and it is probably obsolete now as  I had ised it for many years. 

I have download several and am not impressed with any off them so suggestions would be welcome. 

Thanks

[egglesdtp]

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@black*poppy wrote:

But you have to use Photoshop if you want to do stuff like wipe out backgrounds and that sort of fancy stuff.  Photoshop doesn't batch process.

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Yes it does. File>Automate>Batch (that is the sequence in CS2)

[black*poppy]

So you can copy all the same adjustments across different photos? That would be cool

[tazzieterror]

Yes, or you can select only certain adjustments to be applied to other images. For example, I'll shoot a bunch of products one after the other, get the exposure, colour, white balance etc right on the first image, and only copy these adjustments to the other products images - cropping, angle correction, dust-spot removal are usually specific to each image, so I don't copy these adjustments.

[tazzieterror]

Sorry, black*poppy I think I didn't read back far enough - I was referring to Lightroom, I think you were asking about Photoshop, so please disregard my reply if so.