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I want to be able to make my photos look really good…I am really good at taking photos but I am not a professional photographer by any means…I am always so impressed with the quality of photos pros use and so I wanted to know what software programs do you use to perform your:
a) Enhancements – I want a program capable of augmenting body parts… I’m not saying I am doing this currently but I definetly want something which is capable
b) Quality Air Brushing
c) User Friendly Interface Platform
***What do you think of Adobe’s products?***

I am working with some overweight woman who I would like to help them visualize how they would look with thinner faces etc. Most of them have been obese their entire lives and have no photo graphs to help them. Having a picture of myself when I was at a good healthy weight was what helped me loose all the weight I had gained during pregnancy and then an injury afterwards kept it on. I have seen commercials for plastic surgery and such that takes a photo and then changes a persons appearance to show what they would look like, so I’m sure there is software out there, I just don’t know the name of it. I really want to help these women, so if you know, please help. And also, please no fat jokes just to get yourself some points for answering questions. Addiction to food is no different than addiction to booze or cigarretes except it changes a person’s physical appearance. I used to be over 100lbs overweight myself and know from experience it hurts when the jokes come, so be nice ok?

I want to have the same set up as photographers who do “sessions” where the camera is USB’d to the computer and you can take photos which instantly transfer to the computer for editing / viewing / printing etc etc. I need to do long sesions of taking product photos and it would be great to not have to stop and upload all the time!

Almost every one of us, who have digital photo camera, saw “grainy” photos at least once. That’s thanking to colored pixels (so-called grains, speckles) that are present on photos, but do not exist in the reality.

There are several causes why the noise happens to digital photos: long exposure times, heating of the camera sensor, high ISO settings, matrix defects, small pixel size etc. The effect is very frequent to the consumer digital cameras that are built on CCD or CMOS sensors.

Digital noise is very unpleasant artefact that spoils really good shots sometimes. Every shot corresponds to a unique moment which will never happen again, and the only thing we have to do with a cool, but noisy photo is to retouch it slightly to make it perfect.

Does such a post-processiong software exist? Yes it does. There are several noise reduction photoshop pugins (for both windows and macOS) specially designed to remove noise grains from digital photographs:

http://www.digital-photography-software.com/archives/27

The utilities allow reduction of (together and separately): luminance noise and color (chroma) noise. Additional options include fading, blurring and sharpening edges.

So, removing of the most unpleasant picture imperfection – the digital noise – is possible and much more easier than one can imagine. Due to modern image processing algorithms, the plugins can work almost automatically, so noise reduction does not require any advanced computer skills from a photographer.

Noise reduction is made easy nowadays.

I purchased Photo Explosion and I hate it. I’m an amateur and don’t want to spend more than $100 on software, but there are so many packages out there that I’m lost on which to purchase.
Currently, I take photos of nature. I’m not sure if this matters.
Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!!!