Need some help on taking coin pics and want to ask the experienced photographers about editing and making coins look as good as possible in a photo. Also need a couple pointers on pic editing.
First the software. I would suggest Lightroom. Once you have it, you will never use something else. It is so easy to use you will figure it out after a day!
You will get about as many different or divergent pieces of advice as there are folks who are willing to post to this thread. Keep that in mind.
My two cents: The main use of post editing software is to adjust colors, brightness and contrast, and to do simple square cropping. A secondary use is to do more advanced presentation procedures like circle cropping, side x side, outer-glows, backgrounds and reflections. If you are looking for free software, there a a couple good options: Google Picassa - color adjustments, contrast adjusments and square cropping photoscape - color adjustments, contrast adjustments and advanced cropping and reflections Gimp - color adjustments, contrast adjustments and advanced cropping and reflections green18 wrote a nice tutorial on how to circle crop and do some other presentation things in photoscape: http://www.cointalk.com/t175157/ For pay software, any software will have all features you need. Adobe Photoshop Adobe Fireworks Lightroom I personally use Adobe Fireworks because it is very simple to use. I am proficient in Photoshop, however Fireworks is by far the easiest for me personally. -greg
