freebies

holty · 28 May 2011

are there any free downloads for editing raw files ??
i have a trial version of nx2 at present.
what is the best program to download for free or what is the best cheapest to download ??
i have elements 7 just now

Phil789 · 28 May 2011

Don't know if you are familiar with the software "Gimp". It is open source image editing software similar to Photoshop.

This link should help:

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/opening-raw-images-in-gimp-with-ufraw-for-windows-the-basics

P.S. I don't use this so can't really help much more. Just got that from a google search

Oggy · 28 May 2011

Irfanview or Picassa.

Have you tried PSE7? My version will open Pentax but not Canon RAWs.

GIMP is more a JPG editor.

Phil789 · 28 May 2011

That link I posted talks through processing of raw files in Gimp. But maybe one of the others you suggested is better, I'm not sure. I use lightroom :shrug:

tijuana taxi · 28 May 2011

You can use Adobe Camera RAW with Elements

roseway · 28 May 2011

RawTherapee

holty · 30 May 2011

thanks for the replies i will go through them and see what s what

cheers grahame

lexie · 30 May 2011

tijuana taxi said:
You can use Adobe Camera RAW with Elements

i use adobe camera raw with cs4 and it's pretty good. google it and you should find a link to download it.

mastertrinity · 30 May 2011

Didn't you have a CD that came with your camera with some RAW converting software?

I think with Nikons you get given NX Viewer or something like that

lexie · 30 May 2011

mastertrinity said:
Didn't you have a CD that came with your camera with some RAW converting software?

I think with Nikons you get given NX Viewer or something like that

he could be in the same boat as me, camera bought second hand with no cd. i used to use sony's pmb software which was great but now i use adobe bridge to sort my images, camera raw to edit the raw file and photoshop to edit the jpeg

Jango · 30 May 2011

If you go to the Nikon website you can download for free, View NX, it's very good, i use it for my nef files.

mastertrinity · 30 May 2011

Jango said:
If you go to the Nikon website you can download for free, View NX, it's very good, i use it for my nef files.

That's the one!

redhed17 · 30 May 2011

There's a lot of options here for RAW converters.

Craikeybaby · 30 May 2011

Have you tried using ACR within Elements?

Oggy · 31 May 2011

Craikeybaby said:
Have you tried using ACR within Elements?

I may well be wrong on this one, but I thought ACR only did .DNGs. I tried it for a while and it did not open .PEFs (Pentax RAW).

ChrisH · 31 May 2011

I use the latest Faststone image viewer which has a reasonable image editor built in. Good thing is it costs nowt

Craikeybaby · 31 May 2011

Oggy said:
I may well be wrong on this one, but I thought ACR only did .DNGs. I tried it for a while and it did not open .PEFs (Pentax RAW).

ACR does all types of raw files, just some later cameras are not supported on the older versions (there used to be a sticky about this at the top of the forum).

However, you should be able to use the Adobe DNG convertor to convert your PEF files to DNG to use with ACR.

redhed17 · 31 May 2011

Craikeybaby said:
ACR does all types of raw files, just some later cameras are not supported on the older versions (there used to be a sticky about this at the top of the forum).

The Sticky about Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CS/Elements Compatibility is here.

Oggy · 31 May 2011

D'Oh - checking my software archives, the program I was thinking of was their DNG converter.

My bad. :bonk: