CLOSED: 2.0 Advanced Competition 73

  • Thread starter Thread starter SlipZtrEm
  • 187 comments
  • 10,274 views
Status
Not open for further replies.
cphbullet
Hey guys i dont mean to turn this into a discussion thread but who better to ask.
Im looking at getting a laptop so i can start editing among other things, i was just wondering if anyone else uses a laptop for editing and if anyone could recommend one? Ive been saving for a good while now so something like an alienware or better isnt out of the question:)
Click to expand...

Get a Macbook Pro laptop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 or 4, and get an external harddrve to store photos on.
 
FINAL ENTRY

I swear I'm not jumping on the Lamborghini bandwagon. :ouch:​
 
Scuderia Paul
FINAL ENTRY

LAMBORGHINI GALLARDO LP560-4 NURBURGRING NORDSCHLEIFE
r7n7m.jpg

​
Click to expand...
Please resize your photo to 500px on either side. And, you must provide a link to its fullsize version. :)

I think you're new to the comp.
 
jus1029
Please resize your photo to 500px on either side. And, you must provide a link to its fullsize version. :)

I think you're new to the comp.
Click to expand...

Sorry. Apart from those 2 oversights I think I am fine! :banghead:

I will update as required. Thanks for the heads-up.
 
Anybody wants their entry in again? or changed?
Or else, i'll close this down.
 
Well, Scuderia Paul is making necessary changes.
 
ZEROX
Guess i'll leave this open up until he's done.
Click to expand...

Apologies for the delay. I resized, added my logo to and saved my image in Photoshop, overwriting it in the process, but have no access to my PlayStation 3 to get the original now.

I will be properly prepared should I enter again in the future. Sorry for messing you about.
 
Scuderia Paul
Apologies for the delay. I resized, added my logo to and saved my image in Photoshop, overwriting it in the process, but have no access to my PlayStation 3 to get the original now.

I will be properly prepared should I enter again in the future. Sorry for messing you about.
Click to expand...

What? No, you just need to resize the image you already have to 500px max on either side and then use that as a preview to link to your current image which you posted earlier. No need to get the original.
 
MusicalArtist
Get a Macbook Pro laptop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 or 4, and get an external harddrve to store photos on.
Click to expand...

That's my current setup as well. 13inches i7 MacBook pro, Adobe PS CS5, plus a Wacom drawing tablet. :)
 
CS6 Beta is available to download for free on Adobe's website. It's what I've been using for about a month now and I don't see any sign of the trial ending or anything. It works beautifully, I haven't found any bugs or glitches. Yet.
 
Depending on location, I use either CS3, or a combo of CS5 and Lightroom. The CS3 is on my home PC; my copy of CS5 is sitting in its box waiting for the arrival of my 15" MacBook Pro :). The CS5+LR combo is when I'm at my girlfriend's: also a 15" MBP. I'll probably buy LR for mine since I've been impressed with it so far.

The hardware isn't strictly important for any sort of 2.0 style editing: any decent modern computer, both desk and lap- top, can handle either PS or LR (or both). The trick is learning how to utilize both of those to the best of their abilities, and handily enough, there are plenty of tutorials here. Depending on what you'll be using your laptop for outside of GTP stuff, you may just be fine with a lower-end, cheaper PC-based laptop. MBP's start in the four digits here, for puny 13" models, so I only recommend them to those who plan on doing a lot of creative on it (photo editing, rendering, music production, etc). Basically, weigh out if you'll be consuming more (browsing, watching, reading), or creating more, and buy based on that. No point buying a top-end model if it's never fully utilized! :)
 
Good comment from SlipZ. I would recommend a MBP 15 or 17 inch but they are expensive.

For creative work the MBPs are simply great machines and the user experience is unbeatable.
 
SlipZtrEm
Depending on location, I use either CS3, or a combo of CS5 and Lightroom. The CS3 is on my home PC; my copy of CS5 is sitting in its box waiting for the arrival of my 15" MacBook Pro :). The CS5+LR combo is when I'm at my girlfriend's: also a 15" MBP. I'll probably buy LR for mine since I've been impressed with it so far.

The hardware isn't strictly important for any sort of 2.0 style editing: any decent modern computer, both desk and lap- top, can handle either PS or LR (or both). The trick is learning how to utilize both of those to the best of their abilities, and handily enough, there are plenty of tutorials here. Depending on what you'll be using your laptop for outside of GTP stuff, you may just be fine with a lower-end, cheaper PC-based laptop. MBP's start in the four digits here, for puny 13" models, so I only recommend them to those who plan on doing a lot of creative on it (photo editing, rendering, music production, etc). Basically, weigh out if you'll be consuming more (browsing, watching, reading), or creating more, and buy based on that. No point buying a top-end model if it's never fully utilized! :)
Click to expand...
Hmm what does LR do/ how does it help? Ive never heard of LightRoom before, i was thinking mainly CS5 but people seem to be doing great things with GIMP as well so im debating that.
Im very bad at wording things but essentially what im trying to ask is, is there a 'best' program or do they all do pretty much the same thing? And which is the most user friendly? (I ask this because when using CS5 i had to tutorial EVERYTHING)
To be clear i'd mainly use it for editing, browsing and storing my itunes library (which is fairly small).
 
Don't get this "MacBook must have tool" just to edit photos. Standalone computers and hundred of laptops with another logo on them are useless? My i7 Core 2 Duo in is not enough for 2D applications?
 
cphbullet
Hmm what does LR do/ how does it help? Ive never heard of LightRoom before, i was thinking mainly CS5 but people seem to be doing great things with GIMP as well so im debating that.
Im very bad at wording things but essentially what im trying to ask is, is there a 'best' program or do they all do pretty much the same thing? And which is the most user friendly? (I ask this because when using CS5 i had to tutorial EVERYTHING)
To be clear i'd mainly use it for editing, browsing and storing my itunes library (which is fairly small).
Click to expand...

No, you don't need a MacBook Pro or something in that price range - I think you could use pretty much anything.
/written using an MBP. :lol:

And well, GIMP is IMO the by far most user-friendly, but PS is a lot more powerful with more options. But I think GIMP is sufficient for whatever editing you need to do with post-processing work. But PS is probably better for creating things from scratch. CS5 and the CS6 beta feels impossible to work with, I'm using the beta right now.

My 2 cents.
 
I think there is no "best software".
You just have to know how to use them properly. It takes some time, but if you found out how to use them you can create pretty much everything with it.
Just look how some users bring gimp to its full potential.:dunce:👍

I miself use LR and CS5 (like Slipz and many others).
LR is way easier to use then PS, but it doesn't have those many options PS has. So I myself use PS only to add some more effects or tweak the shot with borders/signatures and such. ;)
I also do all my editing on a MBP13". I just like the monitor and case/body of it way more than any other Laptop. Just personal preference.
But usually, every new Laptop should run those softwares without any trouble.

Btw, when will the polls be up? :dopey:
 
zambuca
Good comment from SlipZ. I would recommend a MBP 15 or 17 inch but they are expensive.

For creative work the MBPs are simply great machines and the user experience is unbeatable.
Click to expand...

Thanks Zam :). My courses throughout school all but demanded Mac usage, so I've slowly transferred over, and will agree that for creative work, they're just superb. Still trying to re-learn all the keyboard shortcuts I rely on here on the PC, and there are some slight differences between the two OS's when it comes to things I do regularly, but on the whole, I agree completely!

cphbullet
Hmm what does LR do/ how does it help? Ive never heard of LightRoom before, i was thinking mainly CS5 but people seem to be doing great things with GIMP as well so im debating that.
Im very bad at wording things but essentially what im trying to ask is, is there a 'best' program or do they all do pretty much the same thing? And which is the most user friendly? (I ask this because when using CS5 i had to tutorial EVERYTHING)
To be clear i'd mainly use it for editing, browsing and storing my itunes library (which is fairly small).
Click to expand...

ISO.7.studios wrote up a very handy mini-review on the differences between LR, PS, and to a lesser extent, Illustrator, in this thread at the other 'Planet. It applies just as much to GT as it does for Forza (and any other game images, really), so do not be scared by where it is ;).

GIMP can do some excellent things - so can Paint.net, as Gtuned has shown. It's similar to real life photography in that sense; a great photographer can produce fantastic shots with a simple point and shoot, while an amateur could waste the inherent abilities in a DSLR they're handed. Photo-editing, much like the act of shooting the images themselves, relies on the user more than the abilities the program is capable of, because if you can't utilize it effectively, it's all for nought. I've seen too many awful "Find Edges + Lens Flare" images in my days :p

If user-friendliness is a concern, I do highly recommend starting with Lightroom. It's user interface is much easier to run through, and alterations are made in a much more straight-forward sense; you "see" what you're changing more directly than the sometimes obtuse options and settings in Photoshop. The main benefit of Photoshop, for me, are the layers: as you'll read in that post I've linked above, PS is a great jack-of-all-trades that has a strength in multi-disciplinary files - the Competition banners, or my gallery layouts - while Lightroom is a very focused tool, a scalpel for strictly editing images, similar to, you guessed it, a lightroom during the old film days :).

NINJA-EDIT: These are posted from my phone - just got in from work, so polls will hopefully be up in a few hours, though I only have the PMC Top 25 PM in my inbox, and neither new theme for Weeks 74 yet!
 
SlipZtrEm
Thanks Zam :). My courses throughout school all but demanded Mac usage, so I've slowly transferred over, and will agree that for creative work, they're just superb. Still trying to re-learn all the keyboard shortcuts I rely on here on the PC, and there are some slight differences between the two OS's when it comes to things I do regularly, but on the whole, I agree completely!



ISO.7.studios wrote up a very handy mini-review on the differences between LR, PS, and to a lesser extent, Illustrator, in this thread at the other 'Planet. It applies just as much to GT as it does for Forza (and any other game images, really), so do not be scared by where it is ;).

GIMP can do some excellent things - so can Paint.net, as Gtuned has shown. It's similar to real life photography in that sense; a great photographer can produce fantastic shots with a simple point and shoot, while an amateur could waste the inherent abilities in a DSLR they're handed. Photo-editing, much like the act of shooting the images themselves, relies on the user more than the abilities the program is capable of, because if you can't utilize it effectively, it's all for nought. I've seen too many awful "Find Edges + Lens Flare" images in my days :p

If user-friendliness is a concern, I do highly recommend starting with Lightroom. It's user interface is much easier to run through, and alterations are made in a much more straight-forward sense; you "see" what you're changing more directly than the sometimes obtuse options and settings in Photoshop. The main benefit of Photoshop, for me, are the layers: as you'll read in that post I've linked above, PS is a great jack-of-all-trades that has a strength in multi-disciplinary files - the Competition banners, or my gallery layouts - while Lightroom is a very focused tool, a scalpel for strictly editing images, similar to, you guessed it, a lightroom during the old film days :).

NINJA-EDIT: These are posted from my phone - just got in from work, so polls will hopefully be up in a few hours, though I only have the PMC Top 25 PM in my inbox, and neither new theme for Weeks 74 yet!
Click to expand...
I can see this will require more thought than i had anticipated, right now im thinking get GIMP, CS5 and LR and just spend hours fiddling with everything on each of them, i suppose it comes down to 'i have about 1200-1600 pound to spend, how much will all that software set me back'?
Unfortunately the link doesnt work on my ps3:yuck:.
I think in terms of editing id be using them to clear jaggies on standards, increase colour saturation and generally clean the image up.

If no one submits a theme idea i have one?:lol:
 
Scuderia Paul
Apologies for the delay. I resized, added my logo to and saved my image in Photoshop, overwriting it in the process, but have no access to my PlayStation 3 to get the original now.

I will be properly prepared should I enter again in the future. Sorry for messing you about.
Click to expand...

Nah it's okay. :D
Anyway...

COMPETITION CLOSED.

I'm sorry because some will ultimately dissapointed but all of the entry deserve to be in the poll. 👍

I'll try to post all the feedback some point in this week.​
 
Last edited:
cphbullet
I can see this will require more thought than i had anticipated, right now im thinking get GIMP, CS5 and LR and just spend hours fiddling with everything on each of them, i suppose it comes down to 'i have about 1200-1600 pound to spend, how much will all that software set me back'?
Unfortunately the link doesnt work on my ps3:yuck:.
I think in terms of editing id be using them to clear jaggies on standards, increase colour saturation and generally clean the image up.
Click to expand...

Honestly a MBP and CS5 is overkill for editing GT5 pictures. I use it since it's part of my job. But you will be doing very good with a state of the art PC laptop and paint.net. If you are not planning on becoming a pro designer or photographer there's no need to go all in. Sometimes the greatest things come from a simple setup.
 
Good advice:) thanks I'll ponder this, it would have made sense to say earlier, I'll probably be studying photography next year at college or uni.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Latest Posts

Back