Software - Adobe or Canon's or Nikon...

[monkey]

I currently use Adobe Elements for archiving my film photos, transferred onto CD and then to my PC's hard drive. I'm about to get a new digital camera and was wondering if I'm better sticking to Adobe or should I use Canon's own software that comes with the camera? (Or any other manufacturers as final decision to be made.)

Should I even bother to load the manufacturers software or just "get photos" to import from the card using Adobe.

If I download jpegs from capture card into manufacturers software and then move to Adobe do they suffer any picture loss? I seem to recall, when copying jpegs they can suffer a loss of resolution, is this true?

I don't do a lot of post processing, (but may in the future) just the usual red eye correction, cropping etc. I'm mainly concerned with preserving original image and archiving for future. Also emailing photos and printing on home printer or from lab.

I'm new to this digital stuff, so any advice welcome. My archive so far is fairly small so not too late to start again if needs be.

[T06]

It looks to me the better picture is in the Nikon Capture software versus the Adobe Potoshop 7.When first loading the pic.from p/shop to capture the photo seem to jump in detail & becomes more vibrant.Whether thats because of the Nikon camera I have or what I know not.

[cwphoto]

Depends on what you want to do with the pictures. If you simply want to archive them then just use Windows Explorer to copy from your media card to your choice of folder.

Having said, a big part of digital photography can be the satisfaction of manipulating the images. So I'd recommend loading the manufacturer's software and having a play at some point - you can normally still archive in your program of choice though.