Software to compliment Nikon Capture

[Kirk Zufelt]

I just switched over to shooting RAW and invested in Nikon Capture. It seems obvious I will need some other processing software. I have a Mac and was wondering if I could get some recommendations on complimentary software. thanks for any insights.

Kirk Zufelt

[Harold Davis]

Capture NX2. you can get a 60 day free trial. check it out. it's pretty strong!!

[Kirk Zufelt]

Harold:

I have Capture NX2 and it seems great. However I need something with other capabilities such as adding text. The other issue is I haven't been able to figure out how eliminate larger distracting items with this program. The retouch brush is not useful for this. Kirk

[John Chardine]

Industry standard is Photoshop (expensive) or Photoshop Elements (much cheaper).

[Tony Whitehead]

Lightroom and Aperture are both useful for RAW conversion and some editing but you will need a version of PS to access advanced editing capabilities (layers). There are cheaper (even free options - GIMP) but PS has all the good training literature and videos that make learning it easier and for that reason I would bite the bullet and get the full version - PS4 has been a good step forward from PS3 in my view - the addition of a an application frame in Mac has been great.

[Michael Pancier]

Nik software has their famous plug ins for Capture. They all use the u-point technology. I would suggest the Nik Color Effects Pro and Viveza ... great programs

[Bill Jobes]

I use Capture NX2, as it seems to be the way to go in initially dealing with Nikon's proprietary raw files.

From there I hop to CS3 for any tweaks and printing.