Software Suggestions

Supernova5124

Supernova5124

New member
As I’m fairly new to photography, I don’t know much about software at all. I’m mostly YouTube educated when it comes to the little knowledge I do have, so I do know about Nikon’s NX Studio and have downloaded that. Are there any other applications I should get?
 
Fred Kingston

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
A lot of folks use Adobe's Lightroom for the Catalogue aspect. Taking pictures is one aspects. Editing is another, but the one most folks start late on until their overwhelmed is a method of cataloguing/storing their images for later retrieval...
 
Woodyg3

Woodyg3

Senior Member
Contributor
Lightroom/Photoshop is the best way to go in my opinion. It will take a while to get up to speed, but that is the case with any worthwhile software package.
 
Supernova5124

Supernova5124

New member
I see there are two options for Lightroom, you can get just Lightroom for $10/month or Lightroom + photoshop for $20/month. What does photoshop do that Lightroom doesn’t, and is there any reason to go with the bundle?
 
Fred Kingston

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
Supernova5124 said:
I see there are two options for Lightroom, you can get just Lightroom for $10/month or Lightroom + photoshop for $20/month. What does photoshop do that Lightroom doesn’t, and is there any reason to go with the bundle?
Click to expand...

Search for Adobe's Photography Plan... It includes both Lightrooms, Photoshop, and 20G of cloud storage... It's $9.99/month
 
Clovishound

Clovishound

Senior Member
That's the one I use. I prefer to use an $80 external drive to backup and store my pictures, rather than paying an additional $10 a month for a TB of storage.
 
Dawg Pics

Dawg Pics

Senior Member
I use Affinity photo. It is 69.99 one time license fee. I think they did one major upgrade since I got it. I runs pretty much like Photoshop. They have lots of tutorials on using it.
 
BF Hammer

BF Hammer

Senior Member
I take the starving artist approach. I'm all about open-source and freeware.

I import and organize images with Nikon NX-studio (Or whatever the current package is called).

I shoot Raw+JPEG and do most of my image postprocessing with RawTherapee. It will edit jpeg and tiff files also.

All other work that requires using layers, applying filters, and cloning gets exported from RawTherapee to GIMP. They integrate to each other a little. That is normally my last step to paste my watermark on a photo and export as a .jpg.
 
cwgrizz

cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
I started out with the Nikon NX or whatever it is. Then I tried GIMP which worked pretty well with a learning curve involved. Then RawTherapee (a big learning curve). See the trend ..FREE software. Then I purchased Adobe PS Essentials which worked well but was limited. Finally, I have settled on ON1 Raw which works well for me now. It can be purchased, or it is available through subscription. I said I would never do the subscription, but I did and if you decide to drop it later, the software you have is yours to keep/use.

Start with the free stuff and as you get some experience under your belt decide on something to purchase.
 
wildshots

wildshots

Senior Member
I agree with cwgrizz. Many of the image editing programs are so advanced that many of us would take years to become proficient with them.

There is one small piece of software that I have used for years. Irfanview ( https://www.irfanview.com/ ). It's free although the owner does accept donations. It will do a lot. It will let a beginner improve images that were unusable out of the camera. It bears a good once over.

Sam
 
B

Bonky

New member
wildshots said:
I agree with cwgrizz. Many of the image editing programs are so advanced that many of us would take years to become proficient with them.

There is one small piece of software that I have used for years. Irfanview ( https://www.irfanview.com/ ). It's free although the owner does accept donations. It will do a lot. It will let a beginner improve images that were unusable out of the camera. It bears a good once over.

Sam
Click to expand...
...but not available for Mac users.

Richard
 
Fred Kingston

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
I don't know...I don't use Nikon's editing software... The few times I tried their tethering and Wifi software, it pretty much sucked, so I didn't/don't waste time with their other software...
 
lightcapture

lightcapture

New member
If you use Mac computer or iPhone, Apple's 'Photos' editing program is excellent and intuitive to use.
It's my main editing program because it's so easy.

Screenshot 2024-02-10 at 10.55.29 AM.jpeg
 
Top