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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 506583" data-attributes="member: 9240">(my fix of your question)There is no answer to your question other than to highly recommend that you learn something about editing photos so you learn your needs and wants, and then you can look at software that does that for you.Are you simply taking photographs for your own enjoyment that you'll share with friends, print occasionally and merely want to make them look better than what you get straight out of camera?&nbsp; If so there are a bunch of free programs out there and I suggest you find one and begin to learn it, and in doing so learn about editing photos.&nbsp; If you're shooting RAW, Nikon's own View NX2, while discontinued, is more than you'll need for that.Are you wanting to eventually get into some serious editing and more &quot;artistic&quot; stuff?&nbsp; If so then I would recommend the PS/LR CC package, because you'll only have to learn once.&nbsp; Lightroom is all you need for basic to intermediate image editing and you can spend most of your first year paying for the CC subscription and not even open Photoshop and still be ahead of the game financially with LR alone.&nbsp; You can then go another 3 years before you've paid off the PS investment, and you're working on the most up to date stuff all the time.&nbsp; If you ever decide to abandon it you will retain Lightroom as a catalog tool (no editing) and you can use it to invoke whatever editor you decide to migrate to.&nbsp; People will tell you it's confusing, but most of them have started on something else, or are more familiar with the layout of the exact same tools in Adobe Camera RAW.&nbsp; There are great free tutorials to get you started on it, if you decide to go that way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 506583, member: 9240"] (my fix of your question) There is no answer to your question other than to highly recommend that you learn something about editing photos so you learn your needs and wants, and then you can look at software that does that for you. Are you simply taking photographs for your own enjoyment that you'll share with friends, print occasionally and merely want to make them look [I]better[/I] than what you get straight out of camera? If so there are a bunch of free programs out there and I suggest you find one and begin to learn it, and in doing so learn about editing photos. If you're shooting RAW, Nikon's own View NX2, while discontinued, is more than you'll need for that. Are you wanting to eventually get into some serious editing and more "artistic" stuff? If so then I would recommend the PS/LR CC package, because you'll only have to learn once. Lightroom is all you need for basic to intermediate image editing and you can spend most of your first year paying for the CC subscription and not even open Photoshop and still be ahead of the game financially with LR alone. You can then go another 3 years before you've paid off the PS investment, and you're working on the most up to date stuff all the time. If you ever decide to abandon it you will retain Lightroom as a catalog tool (no editing) and you can use it to invoke whatever editor you decide to migrate to. People will tell you it's confusing, but most of them have started on something else, or are more familiar with the layout of [I]the exact same tools[/I] in Adobe Camera RAW. There are great free tutorials to get you started on it, if you decide to go that way. [/QUOTE]

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