Author Topic: Software for working with RAW files (Read 3217 times)

Phadrea · « **on:** March 25, 2013, 12:32 »

For years I have been using the free Raw Shooter Essentials software but I feel it is now limited as you cannot crop and I feel the colors, contrast do not look the same whenever rendered to a Jpeg, whatever format Jpeg you choose .

So far I have been looking at Photoshop elements 11 as this now handles RAW. This is the price I am willing to pay, not 100's for Photoshop. Would this be the best choice for me ?

steheap · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2013, 12:38 »

I would go for Lightroom - not only is it a lot cheaper than Photoshop, but it also gives you some great tools for organizing your images, keywording them and exporting to JPEGs for upload. I find that probably 80% of my images can be completed totally in Lightroom and I only go to a full image editing system to remove complex logos and things like that.

Steve

vlad_the_imp · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2013, 12:41 »

If you're a Nikon user Capture NX2 is great, it's designed to work with Nikon cameras, is very intuitive, I have pretty much 100% acceptance rate with it.

Phadrea · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2013, 12:49 »

Yes, I am just downloading NX for free :-)

mtkang · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2013, 12:53 »

i remember i tried bibble before..it seems quite good.. but it seldom discuss..anyone using it?

LesHoward · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2013, 13:13 »

I second what Steve said.

Plus - it's been quite a few years but if my foggy memory serves - Adobe bought out Rawshooter then used it as the basis for parts of Lightroom 1.

Phadrea · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2013, 15:51 »

Thanks folks. Yep, looks like I will go for Lightroom 4. It will mean going through all my old Raw files and doing them properly. Might mean pulling some shots and re-submitting looking on what you can do with this amazing software.

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