Saturday, 23 October 2010

Computer Platforms

With digital photography, an important element of the photographers tools is the computer used to download, store and edit the digital photographs.  With the increase in digital photography computers are becoming more powerful with large hard drives on which to store the photographs, and the integral DVD writers for recording the photographs onto DVDs for offline storage.

There are two main platforms:

  • Windows based PCs
  • Apple Macs

Although the Linux platform is working hard with its development of photo editors, like GIMP (which is a cross platform editor; Windows, Mac, linux, as well as a portable App for Windows).


Each platform has its advantages and disadvantages with some software (eg Corel Paintshop Pro, Serif Photo Plus) available for only for certain platforms.


To many people the Apple Mac platform is seen as 'the' graphics machine.


Within these platforms there are different forms available like laptop and desk top computers. 

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