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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 833398" data-attributes="member: 48483">Ray, I am just going to chime in with my own solution with free software. NX Studio is a perfectly good solution, but there are more powerful alternatives.I had been importing photos with NX Studio but I have been using <a href="https://www.digikam.org/download/" target="_blank">DigiKam</a> lately. The organization options are more powerful. Free software.I edit Raw files with <a href="https://rawtherapee.com/" target="_blank">RawTherapee</a>. It is easily 80% of the feature set of Lightroom but free. No AI, yet. I see I have an update to get today. RawTherapee also integrates to work with my next tool...<a href="https://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank">GIMP</a> is the photo editor when working with layers is needed. Think of it's relationship to RawTherapee as similar to Photoshop's relationship to Lightroom. If you configure the path to GIMP in RawTherapee's configuration screen, the 1-touch export to GIMP will auto convert to a TIF and load it in GIMP for you. All of these started out as Linux software and were ported to Windows and Mac long ago.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 833398, member: 48483"] Ray, I am just going to chime in with my own solution with free software. NX Studio is a perfectly good solution, but there are more powerful alternatives. I had been importing photos with NX Studio but I have been using [URL='https://www.digikam.org/download/']DigiKam[/URL] lately. The organization options are more powerful. Free software. I edit Raw files with [URL='https://rawtherapee.com/']RawTherapee[/URL]. It is easily 80% of the feature set of Lightroom but free. No AI, yet. I see I have an update to get today. RawTherapee also integrates to work with my next tool... [URL='https://www.gimp.org/']GIMP[/URL] is the photo editor when working with layers is needed. Think of it's relationship to RawTherapee as similar to Photoshop's relationship to Lightroom. If you configure the path to GIMP in RawTherapee's configuration screen, the 1-touch export to GIMP will auto convert to a TIF and load it in GIMP for you. All of these started out as Linux software and were ported to Windows and Mac long ago. [/QUOTE]

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