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RE: Technology, My Lifeline

in #life7 years ago

Great work, who needs raw if you keep your phone handy! I’m sure it won’t be long before the new MacBook arrives, I have a new laptop on my list hopefully before the end of the year but we’ll see. New laptop day is always awesome!!

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I need a new laptop day, it’s been six years since the last one! What computer do you use for working on pictures?

Wow, I think it's been about 3 years for me, although I've never spent more than £600 on a laptop, so I'd love to splash out this year. I always used to build our PCs myself to make sure we had something really powerful and great monitors. Now that we get our professional work edited for us we tend to just use my wifes PC for the final adjustments before we send out the files, although we rarely use Photoshop now, honestly you can do 99% of things with just Lightroom! Can't believe how powerful that program has got! My wife just bought a Windows Laptop which is perfect for edits on the go and can push Photoshop and Lightroom fine. I use an old Lenovo L450 which I absolutely love because the keyboard is fantastic, it's splash proof and shock proof etc (lenovo's always are!) and the screen is actually really accurate. Not that vibrant, but accurate. That said it's a bit dated now so it runs lightroom pretty slow and photoshop is a bit of a no go. Love the idea of something like the Surface Pro or a HP x360 but I'd miss the keyboard!

I have to admit, I’m a litte disappointed that you don’t post process youself! 😮 I’ve never actually used Lightroom, I can hardly even get it open before it crashes. I might need to look into that when I get that new and powerful laptop😁

Haha it's just the wedding photos we have an editor for, so everything else is just done on lightroom on the laptop unless I want to really go for it, in which case I'll pop it on the main PC and use photoshop for some brushing and layers! You should definitely give it a try, it's much more intuitive!