Vero Beach Bum Loc: Vero Beach, FL

Hey, newbie here at Ugly Hedgehog. Have previous experience in black and white film, developing and enlarging. Getting back into the hobby and would like opinions on different software. Will be spending most of my time digitally but will work with colour film on occasion. I appreciate your opinions

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

welcome, you will find this site extremly helpfull and the people friendly. :) I can tell by the way you spell color you are not a Yank. By the way check out my location underneath my screen name. perhaps we can go shooting together sometime? ;-)

Vero Beach Bum Loc: Vero Beach, FL

Sounds like a good idea SinatraMan. Am getting into the hobby again and have joined the Vero Beach Photo Club which meets fourth Thursday of the month at the community center on 14th Ave. They have safaris. Maybe we can meet there

baraboobilly Loc: Baraboo, WI

I'm a newbie too at hedgehog and having a bit of trouble figuring out how to post.

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

:thumbup: Great idea I will met you there for the august meeting. I will be wearing a detroit tigers hat. To the nextposter sorry forgot your screenname. To post photos you can respond to a topic by hitting reply. A screen will come up where you can type your message. underneath the box are 3 little boxes with a browse button next to each one, Hit browse, locate the file where your photos are click on the photo and you can type in the little box title or anything about the photo.You can do this three times. once you started attaching photos DO NOT HIT THE PREVIEW BUTTON. hit send. If you want to post more pictures click on add new atachment link on the bottom of your post. To post a new topic you click on post new topic then follow the same directions

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brentrh Loc: Deltona, FL

Lightroom and shooting RAW post process. It is like old days of film but no chemicals and you do it in daylight.

Laramie Loc: Tempe

As far as your digital camera is concerned, the manufacturer likely provides a program for at least some digital processing.

Orphoto Loc: Oregon

Brent...this is the 2nd thread fronm 12 years ago. Watch those dates!

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Especially since the OP was asking about software, so 12 year old info is unlikely to be useful.

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

Against my better judgement, I will offer some thoughts:

First, the notion of shooting in raw format (no need to capitalize that - it is not an acronym) is a good one - this will afford you a much greater latitude in post processing.

Second, know that a huge difference between digital and wet works photography is the need to keep track of what can easily turn into hundreds, thousands or more digital images. So while there are a gaggle of post processing programs out here that enable all kinds of miraculous stuff, you really should consider how you want to organize the images as well as create a "workflow" that delineates the steps you take once you copy the images from the camera(s) to your computer.
You may want to rename the files, because when you have 4000 files that all start with "DCS-" or whatever it can be a daunting task to find the shots of Aunt Sally or Fiji or whatever. This can be done with various utilities, and Lightroom Classic (no doubt others) offer this function as well.
Part of being able to retrieve given image files without papal dispensation will also involve what kind of folder setup you want to create. Some folks create a folder for each year, and within that folders for each month. Others like to create folders for events ("Australia cruise", "Aunt Sally's 90th", etc.) As with renaming - there is no one God given answer - everyone has their preferences - but if you start out doing something that makes sense to you in the beginning it can save a lot of heartache and time a few years down the line.
And while you should already be making backups of your computer regularly, they may become more important when you start storing what might be important (to you at least) images on it. Again, various folks will no doubt be happy to regale you with why their preferred system is best, but my point here is to get you to cogitate on the concept.

On a not-quite-tangential note - that thing about being able to retrieve photos long after they were taken can be dealt with quite nicely with metadata like "keywords". Lightroom has (and again, perhaps DxO ProLab, OnOne, and others do as well) has some powerful keywording capabilities - including facial recognition. So once I have confirmed (or taught it) that this and that and that other photo contains Aunt Sally's face, I can at any time create a virtual folder containing all the photos with her in them regardless of what year or sub-sub folder or whatever I might have stored them in. Again, my goal is to acquaint you with the concept, and not sell you on a particular program.

As you might glean, digital brings with it a whole flotilla of new challenges - all of which can be dealt with but step one is recognizing they are there.

I hope that helps, at least a little.