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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 167911" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>RAW vs JPG is photography's version of the Ford vs. Chevy debate and will rage on forever, most likely, because the different formats both have their place and their uses. I just think shooting in RAW is the next logical step for those who really want to take more creative control over their photography but I also understand that's now what everyone wants to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I hesitate to say "Best" but it think we can all agree it is the most powerful. It's also pretty much the standard of the industry. It's also expensive and there are alternative programs that work very, very well. I would suggest you look into <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html" target="_blank">Adobe Lightroom</a> before taking the plunge and buying Photoshop and I say this as a Photoshop CS-6 user. The only reason I'm using CS-6 is because I could get the academic license version which cost a fraction of full retail. You can download free, 30-day trials of course of both applications.</p><p></p><p>Free editors I can highly suggest that work with RAW files are <a href="http://picasa.google.com/" target="_blank">Google's Picasa</a> and <a href="http://www.irfanview.com/" target="_blank">IRFanview</a>, though the latter requires you install some plugins (just a tiny separate file you'll need to download from their webpage). Nikon's ViewNX2 has it's following but I find the interface abominable, personally. Still, that's just my opinion and ViewNX is a very capable editing package that's also free.</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ffffff">...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 167911, member: 13090"] RAW vs JPG is photography's version of the Ford vs. Chevy debate and will rage on forever, most likely, because the different formats both have their place and their uses. I just think shooting in RAW is the next logical step for those who really want to take more creative control over their photography but I also understand that's now what everyone wants to do. I hesitate to say "Best" but it think we can all agree it is the most powerful. It's also pretty much the standard of the industry. It's also expensive and there are alternative programs that work very, very well. I would suggest you look into [URL="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom.html"]Adobe Lightroom[/URL] before taking the plunge and buying Photoshop and I say this as a Photoshop CS-6 user. The only reason I'm using CS-6 is because I could get the academic license version which cost a fraction of full retail. You can download free, 30-day trials of course of both applications. Free editors I can highly suggest that work with RAW files are [URL="http://picasa.google.com/"]Google's Picasa[/URL] and [URL="http://www.irfanview.com/"]IRFanview[/URL], though the latter requires you install some plugins (just a tiny separate file you'll need to download from their webpage). Nikon's ViewNX2 has it's following but I find the interface abominable, personally. Still, that's just my opinion and ViewNX is a very capable editing package that's also free. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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