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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Mac book pro / photography (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by MDMPoster@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Please help!! Hobby photograph —personal/travel/pics of my family/kids ! I have a lot of photos sitting on SD cards that need to be edited & organized.

I have an older Mac book pro and I’m looking to upgrade. What do you edit on? I’ve only used my iPad in the past with Lightroom cc, not Lightroom classic. However, I’m considering buying Topaz and understand a computer is needed to run. So now I’m considering switching to Lightroom classic — can anyone tell me the differences ? Do I have to ditch the iPad all together if I switch to Lightroom classic ? It would be nice to still use the iPad when I’m not using Topaz. have not yet tackled learning photoshop— future goal but don’t currently use it.

I love the simplicity of using the iPad but I’m open to using the laptop .

I’m really trying to figure out what I need to make things easy—looking to buy another MacBook!

I would also love recommendations on how/where you store your raw & edited images bc I have a lot of travel photos from over the years 😃

Here are my options (I can “afford” any of these but only if it’s worth the extra cost and not wasteful): my husband and I are thinking the 18 RAM is enough — thoughts ???

MacBook Pro 14 inch $1,999 M3 Pro chip (11 Core CPU 14 GPU) 18GB RAM 512 SSD

MacBook Pro 14 inch $2,399 M3 Pro chip (12 Core CPU 18 GPU) 18GB RAM 1TB SSD

MacBook Pro 16 inch $2,899 M3 Pro chip (12 Core CPU 18 GPU) 36GB RAM 512 SSD

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[–] Over-Tonight-9929@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why Topaz? Topaz isn't the same as Lightroom. Topaz is more for 'special' things like noise reduction, upscaling, sharpening,... It's not an organizing and processing software like Lightroom is.

Just use Lightroom Classic. It's nearly the same as the other version but a bit more feature-packed and the interface is way better. Works on all devices however if you tend to post-process a ton of photos daily/weekly, a better machine is recommended. You tablet will do fine for family and travel photos...