What software is essential (or maybe needed)?

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Hi all, I've got a Nikon D5000 and wondered what software will be essential for my PC? I know Photoshop etc but what about 3rd party software that you personally find a great help to maybe managing your photographs or editing them. I just want to set myself up a nice routine when I take my images off of my camera. I find I have to re-size a lot of them to make them great for sending or posting online so maybe you have an option for those images?

Is the Nikon software any good?

I'm looking for a cheap remote shutter release for my Nikon D5000 to see how I get on so do you think that this will be ok?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Remote-Shutte...raphy_DigitalCamAccess_RL?hash=item3efd4776d2

I noticed the price to but I see people using £6 diffusers from Argos so maybe I will get away with this ;)

Value your responses, thanks :thinking:
 
I've installed the Nikon Software (takes around an hour)
and tbh, I've not used it.

I simply copy the images from the card, and then paste into my second hard-drive.

If you can get yourself a copy of Nikon D5000 for dummies, it give a detailed "how to" in the back.
 
look at LIGHTROOM - edits and organises your pics - magic. Nikon software is good but very slow! LR speeds through your pics. Try the free trial.
 
Save yourself £400 and try Photoshop Elements 8 it'll do 99% of the post production things you'll need and even better if your on a Mac as it comes with Adobe Bridge CS4 (only on a mac I'm afraid)
 
Lightroom and or elements, both awesome, both needed in their own ways IMHO.
 
Picasa from Google is free and does basic editing and organising. Easy to use but you will outgrow it. that may be the time to consider elements. I don't use PS. Lightroom does all I need.
 
Picasa (free) for organising and finding then PhotoShop Elements for editting. I do sometimes resort to CS but PSE is much faster to load and seems to do things faster than CS. Can't remember what the stitching software I use is called but it came free with a scanner ot printer.
 
Are you in education?

If so, buy the Student version of Adobe Design Suite, you can pick it up for aroudn £180 (I think?), that'll be the best move can make. If not, then we download the trial versions and see if you think it's worth paying for!!
 
irfanview is a great utility
pixresizer is invaluable for creating web ready images quickly.

all free :)
 
whiteflyer said:
Save yourself £400 and try Photoshop Elements 8 it'll do 99% of the post production things you'll need and even better if your on a Mac as it comes with Adobe Bridge CS4 (only on a mac I'm afraid)
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I mostly go along with that.
I did not find Nikon software all that user friendly.

I use PSE7, but ignore the Organizer part and do my own organising within My Pictures.
 
In Windows you can't really beat Picasa for organising photo's, Lightroom or PSE will do everything else.
 
I use Aperture 3 to manage libraries and do basic tune ups - been using Aperture for about an year and I love it. I use PS for bigger jobs (not much to date, though am learning it at the mo).

TBH if you are on PC then lovely free Picasa is great for loads of stuff.
 
Don't forget Gimp. Free as well.
 
:plusone: for lightroom for processing and going through pictures. Plus its exports are brilliant for some batch operations as well.

However it doesnt have the ability of what people call photoshopping, but for processing raws its fine (am i right on these statements..)
 
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