Think I’ve asked this before but can’t find the post if so:
Hey, mobile #photography#photo types: What editing apps do you use on your phones to touch up photos?
I was using Photoshop Express and Fotor this morning and found both would only let you modify an image a certain number of times before the paywall popped up.
Free is best, but I’m happy to pay a nominal fee (not subscribe) for a robust enough app.
@mentallyalex Never heard of it but I’ll check it out.
That’s the thing. I get that I may have to pay for it, which I totally get. What I don’t like is things like Adobe (or Masto apps… ahem) going with subscription models instead.
@mentallyalex For sure. And frankly Adobe is just soaking people on their various subscriptions anyway. I was looking at a digital audio workspaces for getting into voiceover work, and Adobe wants $32 a month (plus taxes, of course) for their DAW called Audition. For just that one program.
@mentallyalex I’ll have to keep DaVinci Resolve in mind if I ever go that route. Thanks for the suggestion.
I’ve only heard of Reaper recently. The guy from one of the video series I’ve been watching about voiceover work uses it. Sounds interesting.
I’ve been using Audacity, mainly because it’s free and seems to do the pretty straight-forward mono recording and editing I need very well. Still in the early stages, but I’m sure I can now deliver some quality at least basic material.
@mentallyalex Audacity will do a ton more than I need right now — multitrack recording and a lot of effects and applications to use when mixing and matching such stuff — so I’m trying to balance figuring out what I need to know sooner rather than later vs what can wait for now. The more I can offer to do, the better set I’ll be for bigger fees, but I don’t want to sit on my hands and earn nothing between now and then.
@mentallyalex I wouldn’t doubt that the story is true, if only because I’ve heard the same kind of thing about entire bands or parts of them trying out equipment from bygone eras and using it because they like how it sounds.
Probably akin to photography equipment. You can drop thousands on a photo camera with bells and whistles up the wazoo, but that won’t make you a good photographer. You think Ansel Adams needed that kind of gear? Or did he make magic with what he had?
@mentallyalex All of which is to say, I figure if I make any notable amount of money at all doing voiceover, I’ll upgrade piecemeal as I can. I’ll look at paying for another mic or interface or DAW if/when they seem to work better for me than what I’ve got. Until then, everything more I buy to do the V.O. work is money I’m out without even knowing yet if I can make money doing it.
I was looking for some videos about optimizing compression and noise gate, and two really insightful series were hosted by guys who… yep… sat down at Reaper to show their lessons. And the Reaper UI looked a lot more robust than Audacity, with features that helped make their points.
Then another video detailed how every program except Audacity lets you undo changes to a waveform made before a program shut down and restart.
I should clarify that I’m mainly looking to adjust nuances like colours, tone, exposure, etc. Filters can be nice — Snapseed has one in particular that is excellent at enriching colours and clarifying detail in water via somehow shedding some reflections, but I’m trying where practical to stop using Google products — but aren’t the main draw. Nothing crazy.
Mainly looking to help make the pics I take into more of what I’m seeing, as it were, when they fall short on their own.
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