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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 174875" data-attributes="member: 13090">I think it's less a question of what application is &quot;good enough&quot; and more one of, &quot;How much do you need&quot;? If all you want to do is enlarge/reduce, crop, convert RAW files to JPG or TIFF or what have you, make basic (meaning global) exposure adjustments and simple color balancing you'll probably be fine with ViewNX or one of several other free image editing applications. <a href="http://www.gimp.org/" target="_blank">GIMP</a> is a one of the most powerful free apps out there and <a href="http://www.irfanview.com/" target="_blank">IRFanview</a> is something I still use even though I have Photoshop CS6 both at home and at work. It's just so freaking fast and easy for so many routine things.Now If you want industry-standard, professional level editing capabilities then yes; you'll need to shell out the bucks for Photoshop or get a Creative Cloud account. In between these two extremes are other applications like Adobe Lighrtoom or Photoshop Elements and third party apps like ACDsee Photo Editor or ACDsee Professional, Serif PhotoPlus or PaintShop Pro. Be warned that if you shoot RAW, that each camera has it's own RAW-codec and that codec, or the RAW format itself, may or may not be supported by any one of those particular applications....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 174875, member: 13090"] I think it's less a question of what application is "good enough" and more one of, "How much do you need"? If all you want to do is enlarge/reduce, crop, convert RAW files to JPG or TIFF or what have you, make basic (meaning global) exposure adjustments and simple color balancing you'll probably be fine with ViewNX or one of several other free image editing applications. [URL="http://www.gimp.org/"]GIMP[/URL] is a one of the most powerful free apps out there and [URL="http://www.irfanview.com/"]IRFanview[/URL] is something I still use even though I have Photoshop CS6 both at home and at work. It's just so freaking fast and easy for so many routine things. Now If you want industry-standard, professional level editing capabilities then yes; you'll need to shell out the bucks for Photoshop or get a Creative Cloud account. In between these two extremes are other applications like Adobe Lighrtoom or Photoshop Elements and third party apps like ACDsee Photo Editor or ACDsee Professional, Serif PhotoPlus or PaintShop Pro. Be warned that if you shoot RAW, that each camera has it's own RAW-codec and that codec, or the RAW format itself, may or may not be supported by any one of those particular applications. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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