Beginner Can you recommend me beginners image editing software?

pjm1 said:
Congrats on your (impending?) purchase, Jon. When I started off, I went through what I call the classic stages of learning to shoot:

1. Take a photo and "chimp" (look at the LCD screen) and think, "hey that looks ok"
2. Import into computer as JPEG... "hmmm, that's not looking so good after all."
3. Learn/read that saving images as RAW gives you more flexibility, so do that an import the RAW files instead... "ouch - that looks even worse?!"
4. Download image editing software, import RAW files, play with sliders, setting most to +100 or -100, just like Serge Ramelli says on his videos
5. Friends say, "hey, cool photo!" Gather dozens of likes on Facebook (I don't have many friends)
6. Friend who is a pro photographer looks and explains how I could perhaps improve the composition, the lighting, the focus, the depth of field, the foreground interest and maybe drop all of the OTT processing

Which then leads to a perpetual quest over many years to get more right in camera and less messing around with processing in the computer.

But don't let that stop you, because image manipulation can be great fun and for me it was part of the learning process!
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Cheers Paul, I've been the proud owner of a Nikon D7100 for the past two weeks and have been merrily pointing it about the place snapping away and then swearing that the picture I've taken haven't turned out as I wanted. :)

I've got my head round depth of field (with the apature priority setting) but always get the ISO setting wrong and have no idea at all about composition, I need to do some reading up on it. I already shoot in Raw because I was told it's better by folk who know more than me, and it sounds manly. On the plus side I'm learning the camera better and some photos turn out to be not too bad.

 
Came here to post about the Nik software, its a total no brainer.
I paid over £100 for this a few years ago!
 
Focus on Lightroom. You will choose soething else and after few months will realise that Lightroom is amazing ,only thing that is missing
are the layers, but if your pictures are with good composition you dont need them.
 
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