KillRamsey
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Hood River, OR
- Name
- Kyle
Hiya folks.
All of you do more / better image processing than I do. I know some of you don't think you do much, but I am literally limited to a work-owned, locked-down laptop that cannot have anything new installed on it. So I have the MS Office photo editor, which will do mids / contrast / saturation / crops and not much else (and do them all pretty badly). And I had a thumb drive with Raw Therapee Mobile on it, but as soon as it updated itself to 4.1.22 recently, it will not find any images anywhere no matter what I do. RT was very nice for color channel work, tone mapping, correcting CA, that sort of thing. It was not very good at graduated filters (they look very artificial), and it doesn't do anything creative. RT Mobile also didn't work with X Trans raw files, which is a problem, given that I shoot an XT1... I just shoot jpg only.
So here's my thought / question: What sort of software do you all like for Xtrans most, Photo Ninja? Does PS support the X Trans yet? And then what hardware (tablet, laptop) that's available used would happily run that software without being glacially slow? In my head, I picture a craigslist laptop for $300, and software for another hundred. Am I missing a tablet option? I want to plug my SD card directly into whatever it is. And it doesn't need to do anything else but edit my images, for now. I want to add borders and image-based watermarks, too, preferably in batches.
What would you do?
All of you do more / better image processing than I do. I know some of you don't think you do much, but I am literally limited to a work-owned, locked-down laptop that cannot have anything new installed on it. So I have the MS Office photo editor, which will do mids / contrast / saturation / crops and not much else (and do them all pretty badly). And I had a thumb drive with Raw Therapee Mobile on it, but as soon as it updated itself to 4.1.22 recently, it will not find any images anywhere no matter what I do. RT was very nice for color channel work, tone mapping, correcting CA, that sort of thing. It was not very good at graduated filters (they look very artificial), and it doesn't do anything creative. RT Mobile also didn't work with X Trans raw files, which is a problem, given that I shoot an XT1... I just shoot jpg only.
So here's my thought / question: What sort of software do you all like for Xtrans most, Photo Ninja? Does PS support the X Trans yet? And then what hardware (tablet, laptop) that's available used would happily run that software without being glacially slow? In my head, I picture a craigslist laptop for $300, and software for another hundred. Am I missing a tablet option? I want to plug my SD card directly into whatever it is. And it doesn't need to do anything else but edit my images, for now. I want to add borders and image-based watermarks, too, preferably in batches.
What would you do?