"Still loving you."
I've spent quite some time cursing over both DPP (Digital Photo Professional) and GIMP, a free-ware application I use instead of Photoshop. GIMP and Photoshop are supposed to be quite the same, although GIMP lacks the tutorials and the support that comes with Photoshop. But GIMP is free-ware, and at this point quite sufficient for my needs. And yes, it comes with the little lasso tool. Chocolate to be purchased separately.
My camera also comes with a next to fool-proof feature, the Creative Auto-feature. You'll find settings for taking warm/cold, soft/intense or darker/brighter pictures. There's also a little feature called 'Monochrome filters', with blue, black-white or sepia toning. Me like!!
I like the DPP application, it's so easy to curse at and also gives you many reasons to. You might want to consider another application if you're married. Or a more powerful computer. It also uses some crazy CR2-file that other programs have trouble reading. That's what you get for taking RAW-pictures with your camera. However, the quality is better, so I use it. Sometimes. (Read, whenever I remember to.) DPP have really nice and easy ways to enhance the basic features in the picture, like brightness, saturation and contrast. It can save a picture even though settings on the camera were off. Well, it can't do wonders, but it can do some nice shit. Like this:
I found that DPP is not that hard to learn and it is pretty nice to use too. You can do a lot in DPP, and there is a really nice tutorial on YouTube: Canon Digital Photo Professional - What is DPP.
And now for some more chocolate and GIMP.
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