goldenyears Loc: Lake Osewgo

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speedmaster Loc: Kendall, FL

I would go for photoscape x... it is simple and full of functionality. The paid version with more advanced features as layers is only 39.00 but the free one is free of advertising and has 100% of the basic functionality. It works fine, very few bugs that I can count of... recommended

HiFromSusan

I find that Gimp has a fairly large learning curve. I too wish someone would simplify it for those of us who no longer have an eight-year-old nearby to show us how to use our computers ;-)

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You can't delete but you have an hour to edit, but you can't leave it blank, so just type _ or the word deleted or oops.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

Do you find Faststone to be adequate for most post processing needs? My apologies, but I am very new to digital photography and post processing 😬. I have Faststone and Lightroom, but would like to become proficient and use just one program if possible.

Thank You 🙏

JBGLADSTONE Loc: Oregon

Both Nikon and Canon offer free editing programs. I have used DPP4 for Canon many many times. In fact I was copying images to TIFF file to use on ON1 Photo10.5.
Why? Because this older PP did not allow update for my Canon 80D files.

petrochemist Loc: UK

FastStone managed more than 95% of what I've needed over the last 10 years. It' doesn't support layers & is limited in selective editing, but does all the global editing & allows cloning to remove those dust spots.
I use specialist software on the odd occasions I play with focus stacking (Combine ZP), panoramas (Microsoft ICE), or HDR...

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

I start all of my beginner students on Lightroom and shooting raw if their cameras can produce raw files. If not, it will still work with jpegs to the extent that jpegs can be worked with.

It is far easier to learn its small set of image editing commands, you can't make a mistake (you can reset each section or the either edit), and it helps deal with something up front - the file organization part - which completely befuddles many (myself included in the beginning) that is better handled before they have several thousand images and hundreds of completely disorganized folders. The Library function is a foreign concept to many, but once it is understood, nothing could be easier. Oh, and it is pretty inexpensive. My beginners do well with this approach. I don't teach them to fear editing anything but jpeg nor do I teach them to learn basic, limited capability software that, by design, cannot help them expand their editing skills.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

I received a Nikon software disc with my camera. But it is not compatible with Windows 10. 😢

Rusty69 Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

FastStone, and it is free.

a6k Loc: Detroit & Sanibel

Free only:

Sony, Canon and Nikon all offer free, easy to use apps that can handle their own raw formats and, of course, JPG. I have used Sony and Nikon but not Canon. The Canon one is well regarded as far as I know by the Canon users.

The Sony app is the one I know best. It can produce a 99.9% same JPG from raw as you would have gotten from the camera. The beauty of that is that you can produce any or all of the JPG's that you might have taken, all from the original raw file. Maybe the others can do this, too. The Sony app can do some basic edits, also and can export to the usual formats.

I also second the recommendation for Mac users to first give Photos and Preview a try before going any further. In my limited recent experience I endorse the IrfanView and FastStone recommendations for Windows but I think that as good as they are, if you have a Mac, use the Mac's tools first. IrfanView and FastStone are Windows only.

Any Fuji or other brands' users want to chime in on their manufacturer offerings?