gasnwidaho Loc: Elk City Idaho

i Know this has been asked a lot but i have win 7 32 bit and shoot raw with a cannon 6d what would work best for me The poor mountain hermit

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

Well, that would be Lightroom.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

The best photo editor that is similar to Lightroom is DXO Photolab. Unlike Lightroom though you don't need to import your images into it. It assumes that you are capable of managing your assets outside of the program which eliminates one of the biggest problems that people tend to have with Lightroom.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Snide answer: Film would likely be less costly. But... the cost of Lightroom for two months (both versions, plus Photoshop and Bridge are a $9.99 per month bundle) is about the same as a roll of film and processing with proof prints (About $20).

GIMP is free. But it is more like Photoshop than Lr. Affinity Photo is $50, but again, more Photoshop-like.

bmike101 Loc: Gainesville, Florida

darktable is good

papakatz45 Loc: South Florida-West Palm Beach

Digital Photo Professional DPP, which came with your camera.

Joe Blow

DPP 4.2 requires minimum 4 GB memory and will act like a snail. 8 GB and Win 8.1 or better to have it act decently.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

I use Lightroom. But I also use Capture One - Capture one is better than Lr. But you will need to upgrade your computer. Prioritize. . .

rayr

Raw Therapee, Darktable, LightZone, all free and very good raw editors. Raw Therapee being my choice.

Linary Loc: UK

Take care, if you choose Lightroom ensure it will run on your 32 bit machine (or buy a new 64 bit computer!)

Some of the above answers have missed the fact that your computer is 32 bit.

janelux Loc: Florida

Just to make sure you are clear....Lightroom doesn't NOT import your photos into their program, it simply learns where you store them, either on your computer hard drive or an external drive.

kvanhook Loc: Oriental, NC

I like Luminar. I use it more than the Lightroom I have.

dcampbell52 Loc: Clearwater Fl

Actually, when I "IMPORT" images in Adobe Lightroom, I put one of my cards with images on it into a card reader. I then click IMPORT in the Lightroom "LIBRARY" mode. Lightroom Imports the images from the card to the target location on my hard drive into a separate folder (mine are setup by dates. I have a D: drive.. then Photos folder. In the Photos folder Lightroom makes a folder called 2018 and in that folder a folder called 2018-01-01 in which IT copies all of the photos that I took on January 1st 2018. It creates a second folder called 2018-01-03 (I didn't take any photos on Jan 2nd but did on Jan 3rd. Adobe reads the date code of the images to do this.. In other words, I may have images from 6 days of shooting on the card and Lightroom will sort the images by date and put them in (or create) the appropriate folders for storage. YES LIGHTROOM copies the images to my hard drive FROM my cards. Then, once the images are COPIED and verified, I format the memory card in the camera. So, yes, Lightroom Does INDEED import my photos to a specific location on a specific hard drive. In addition, on closing, Lightroom backs up the library to another hard drive on my computer. I could have it write it to my WD Cloud but I do that manually.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

That may well be true, but DPP 3.14 should work with a 6D and be a better match for the OP's computer.

angelbinky

I've not seen it posted here, but I would like to make another suggestion. I am a commercial printer/publisher and I use photoshop for designing. However, I have found that I enjoy working with Inkscape. It's not a popular, or maybe even well-known photo editor. The best part about it is that it's FREE. It has alot of features that even photoshop doesn't. I use it mostly for special effects. I'm not sure about importing and such.... never had to use it for what I do, but someone with that knowledge might want to check it out and post their results.

Being a book cover designer, the special effects give the cover a more interesting appeal. It might not be for everyone, but you might want to give it a shot, especially because it's FREE>