Does anybody know a better program than photoshop for editing digital images more professionally. Something more like digital grading. Thanks, and please get back to me ASAP.

I think "digital grading" is a term more used in the motion picture industry? At least that's what a search on google turns up. Sorry, I can't add more.

Hmmm. You don't like PS. Then I suppose Adobe After Effects will not cut it. Have you tried searching for magazine print editing programs or something like desk top publishing? What are you looking to do when you edit the photo? If you are looking for something that can batch process for example there are programs that do that. If you are looking for programs which perform certain actions with less user input PS can do that sort of thing also. ( Personally I have no idea how though. ) Hey Misha, what is digital grading? Bsteph

Hmmm ... what do you mean by more professionally? PS is one of the top digital photo editing packages around (if you don't take into account $200,000 custom apps). Only time I've ever heard the term digital grading was for movies. Isn't it computer controlled light level and color correction/enhancement? I remember reading once about how they use that (if that's the right term) to do things like restore film masters of degraded films so that the faded or damaged parts match correctly to the non-damaged parts. If that's what you mean, PS has extensive tools for color correction and level adjustments. So, do you mean some kind of fully automatic color correction across images or across frames of a movie? Kind of confused. -=>Donald

......hummmm... ....... as far as i know... Photoshop is the best Professional-Level photoretouch program out there. the digital grading process make sense mostly for films... in which PS is not suited to operate only beacause it doesn't support a continuous workflow of images required by movie works... for example... as far as i know GIMP has a tool (FilmGimp i guess) that lets you work on continuous image workflows... but again... you have to work on movies? If you doesn't work on movies why you bother? GIMP is not comparable in terms of quality and usability to PS. It has surely really powerful tools... and it is free but you need a math grade to operate it with it's interesting hand-made calc functions... Sorry man but PS is still the most powerful and advanced product... i advice you to get in touch a bit more with it... there are a lot of strange triks that surely will suit your taste in photo correction and handling... give him a little more time...

Well, I was trying to edit a video. I was going to try to split it into their own seperate frames and try to retouch them that way, but now I'm seeing that I won't be able to do it that way, I'm looking to do seperate clips that way. I use Photoshop Elements. Is there a difference between that and the regular PS? Is one better than the other? Thanks for all your help and attempts to understand what I wanted to do.

Stairway - Yea, Photoshop is far more robust than Photoshop Elements. But neither of them is made for editing video. They are designed for still frame editing and minimal multiple frame stuff. You really need a specialized video package to do what you want to do. Of course, you're gonna pay a hefty price for the good stuff. Something like Discreet's Lustre or Colorfront's Color*Star. Of course, Lustre costs something like $350,000. I don't really know if any of the advanced consumer packages have digital grading capability. Maybe something like Adobe's After Effects, but not sure. -=>Donald

I think you will have to use Adobe Premiere or some other video editing program for this... (*

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I honestly do not know much about this subject, (but that has never stopped me before). There was a recent article in PC Magazine, so maybe looking around there could point you to some choices. Photoshop is NOT the best choice for you. For editing, (moving sequences, adding transitions, sound), Adobe Premiere seems well regarded. I do not know if it does colorization or "digital grading." FilmGIMP should, but is still relatively new. [But it is cheap!]

Thanks everyone... Misha, I heard that FilmGIMP was free, am I right? But is it only for Linux? Thanks again everyone.

humm... well... FILMGimp is free... it's a tool for GIMP, the famous photoretouch program for linux. I've it installed on my MacOS X. It's nice and cheap... but you will have to understand the way it works by yourself... ...the docs are pretty obscure in some passages.... anyway... if you have a Mac it should not a problem finding a release... you will need apple's X11 and FINK to download and build it... dunno if it is released under Windoze...