Morning Bebop
Thank you for your reply. I've found out that Photo's does actually support the files for D5iv but it seems to be a very basic program for editing, although I am only a amateur I would prefer a program that is more advanced with tools and at least a histogram.
I'm in the process of looking at DPP but as I've used Elements is Lightroom similar or is more advanced. Do you know the costs of Lightroom if I decided to buy a new program?
Photo's does have histogram! You can see the main features about halfway down this page -
https://www.apple.com/uk/macos/photos/
Not saying it's as functional as Lightoom / Capture One etc, but there is a lot in there that covers a lot of peoples needs.
Thanks andrewc
I appreciate that. There's a good few suggestion put to me and I'm going to look at them all, I would prefer the more straight forward option even if it means investing in new software. I've haven"t used lightroom before, is there much difference from Elements?
Lightroom is a non-destructive catalog system with fairy sophisticated editing features, but those features are mainly those that are designed to affect the image as a whole (exposure etc), with some (improving) capability to allow you to apply those same adjustments to just part of the image (Gradient filters, radial filters, masking etc), but it won't allow you to move objects around in the image, and has limited ability to 'remove' things (spots okay, simple lines etc okay, more complex stuff, not so great).
By contrast Elements (and it's bigger Sister Photoshop) are pixel based editors, and do allow you to stretch, remove, add etc elements to the image (think replacing eyes from one group photo to another where someone was not blinking etc). Elements offers more guided tutorials than Photoshop and is simpler to use, albeit less powerful at the end of the day.
There's an overlap between the two product sets (you can do somethings in Lightroom that are better down in Elements, and you can do some things in elements that lightroom is better at etc), and for most people, either will have enough functionality to cover most of of your needs, so best option is to grab both and see which way of working you prefer.
We're all on our own journeys and at different stages! I've just cancelled by Adobe subscription (to much protestation from Adobe, first registered product in 2004 apparently!), and am moving towards a much simpler workflow that I think Photos will cover (hence why I keep on about it!), but the best advice is to ignore others (including me) and try the options until you settle on something that works for you now.
I am having a doozy of a time deciding what todo with my 30K+ photo's in LR though and how best to manage them moving forward, but that's another story!
A Youtube clip was referring Canon's DPP (Digital Photo Professional) 
