POST-PROCESSING

[Steve Jepson]

I will be investing in some post-processing software for renderings soon.

Does anyone have experience with these three?

Photoshop
After Affects
Nuke

Which would you recommend?

http://www.maxwellrender.com/postproduction/

[Eduardo Rolon]

You will need Photoshop always and it is the standard option for stills. After Effects and Nuke are for animations.

[Steve Jepson]

Thanks.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Have a look at Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer (Affinity Publisher will be landing in public beta soon).

These are credible alternatives to the Adobe Creative Suite products, They're $70US, no subscription and Affinity Photo at least can read and write Photoshop files.

https://affinity.serif.com

[Eduardo Rolon]

+1 on Affinity but I think that the Plugin will only run within PS.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

a bunch of PS plug-ins can be used with Affinity Photo. The forum and their YouTube site have more info about this.

[Anonymous]

And just in case, It might not be the best software, but I replace Photoshop with Gimp a few years ago for still post Processing and I haven't really to spend money on post processing software for still renders. Again not saying is the best but it works pretty good for me.

[Eduardo Rolon]

Affinity Photo is so inexpensive that there is no reason to use GMP.

[Anonymous]

ejrolon wrote:
Affinity Photo is so inexpensive that there is no reason to use GMP.

Also Agree!
I just get used to Gimp