Photo Software - what would you like here?

How about ART. raw therapee. darkroom etc for linux users?

See what I meant. ;-)

I agree-separate forums for each pp product is a waste of space. some will always be void of users.

I would like a special slot for Canon DPP just to swear about it ! 😎

Photato wrote: The "Retouching" label was a bad one IMO. Photo Editing would be a better label.

LMAO

I agree, to have too many categories would complicate matters too much & block some users from learning about alternatives.

Bit late with this, but

Glad to see the renaming. I got a lot of, mostly, good humored abuse when I suggested something similar a few years back

Not at all sure about the proliferation of sub-forums. A lot here post about how best to develop workflows with multiple products (e.e Lightroom and PhotoLab)

How would we see that working?

1) ok for me

2) no idea ... Do you refer OS: Windows, Apple, or Android? if So ---->>> it's a very good idea

Two levels solve all:
GPPT- all generic chat
GPPT> Windows
GPPT> Apple
GPPT> Android
GPPT> On Camera

OK,
but what do you mean by "Operating System" if not Windows. Apple. Linux. ???

What I would really like to see is a separate category for ON1 Photo RAW .
I think this is equivalent to Lightroom after all.

Crazy idea from a coding idiot...
As a user of DxO Photolab and Affinity Photo, I like the range of specific forums suggested. The level of granularity has been mentioned as a potential concern.

What if for some catergories that could fall under a broader general forum catergory, the forum thread title woud have to include mandatory tags for product and process followed by the question. Users could then set a filter like in Excel, to only view product and process threads relevant to their needs, and then revert to an unfiltered view.

Ok, I'll take a walk now.

Just my 2c. Is it hard to split it at some later stage? I'd consider making it on on demand basis. Broader forum descriptions stimulate discussions (as people see a lot of messages/comments in one place). People may be reluctant to post into an abandoned/low activity subforum as they wouldn't expect to get an answer there.
Once a generic subforum gets too overcrowded, it can be split further into subforums.

I really liked having all softwares under one heading because it was how I discovered more about different options. If there is a good search function then it is simple for someone to pull up threads about their preferred software but if there are set sections then people are not likely to post in say the DxO section and then also go post the threads into the general section so people may not know there is a post comparing DxO to another software, if that makes sense? I don't know what is possible but I would like to suggest just a main post-processing forum but with the ability for the user to set a personal preference to just have threads on their chosen softwares to separate out and appear for them on their device. That way both things are accomplished...as I say it would be a shame to get so specific in the categories that people missed threads in different ones.

If there end up being separate categories then I agree there must be one for ON1 Photo Raw...

I don’t think we should break things up until we have a higher member count. If you’re keeping score, I’m a DxO PhotoLab 6 user, having given up waiting for Canon to optimize DPPro, which was my go-to editor for many years.

You can already do this simply by clicking the categorical “Post Processing Software & Techniques” link on the main forum page, or by clicking the breadcrumb trail when visiting a specific sub-forum.

IMHO the sub-forums you’ve created recently are a darn good start & should be resilient over time. Thanks.

I would not encourage too much shredding, but if this direction is accepted, Darktable is probably popular enough.

I’m not sure that you’d want to have separate forums for each editor. A single place to go for most general post processing stuff is probably a better idea, IMO. If you’re having an issue with Lightroom, some Lightroom users can chime in. Capture One, DxO, or Darktable issues? Their folks can chime in for those editor-specific questions. Lots of people are fluent in (and regular users of) a number of different brands of software, sometimes all at the same time. It’s often helpful and informative to see what others come up with using different software than what you are currently familiar with too. I can maybe see separate forums for colorization, infrared, astro, portrait retouching, and other more specialized sorts of processing, but for general processing tips and comparisons, I think you’ll get more mileage out of single forum where lots of different processing options can be considered in the same place. My earlier RAW processing specific forum suggestion was intended to operate in a similar capacity.