I really did cheat by using a great FREE editing program called PhotoScape (more info and download from www.photoscape.org ). It's quite powerful, has loads of features and is very simple to use.
I'm going to quote Rooz here. That program is freaking terrific!
Okay it ain't no Photoshop or Lightroom but IMO after about 10 minutes use it ranks with Irfanview as a must have for something to play around with. I haven't tried the RAW editor yet it will be interesting to see how it goes with .NEF files.
... I haven't tried the RAW editor yet it will be interesting to see how it goes with .NEF files.
Just a word about RAW files. Apparently there's a trick to using PhotoScape with RAW -- I picked this up at the cnet.com site:
"It supports RAW, as well as all other major image formats from JPEG and PNG to animated GIFs. It comes with prebuilt templates for users to create photo collages, fumetti, and Web comics, and has a standard set of red-eye removal, light/shadow, and contrast-editing features. One warning about the RAW processing: although it looks like you can drag and drop, the converter doesn't change RAW to JPEG unless you load the RAW file from within the native file navigator. It's a minor bug, but one that can lead you to believe that there's no RAW support at all. You can also batch edit images, combine them, and print them out one at a time or several at once."
The PRINT function is good, too. I've just printed out the photo below at 10"x8" size, and the result seems better than when I print from Irfanview. And the price is right!
PS I downloaded MS ICE but haven't used it yet. In your comment you said, "Manual metering, camera held in portrait, CH and just hold the shutter button down and swing from left to right." Pardon my ignorance, but what does CH stand for?
Last edited by Sir Les; 10-20-2009 at 02:33 AM.
Nikon D7000 and a bunch of Nikon stuff — oh, and some Canon p&s's too
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