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My current Photoshop Elements 10 on my eight-year-old iMac will not process raw photos taken with my D750.

I am moving to a new iMac. What is the best (and easiest) processing software to go along with my new computer that will allow full processing of pics from my Nikon D750?

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Photoshop.
—Bob

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

Affinity Photo, available on the app store $49.99. Works very similar to Adobe Photoshop, and some ways easer and some features are better, while others may not be. Also Luminar works well and is easy to use has layers and masking but does not have selections like Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Also try your native Nikon software for raw editing, you might be very surprised.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

You can use Apple Photos (on your new Mac when you get it), Serif Affinity Photo ($50 once), Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 ($100), the Adobe Photography Bundle ($10/month, including Photoshop CC, Adobe Lightroom CC, Adobe Lightroom CLASSIC, Adobe Bridge, the latest Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and some other stuff), or any of at least a half dozen other apps.

I use the Adobe Photography Bundle. It's always up to date, runs great on my Late 2013 iMac with 16GB RAM and a 2TB SSD drive, and does most of what I need. In fact, I use Lightroom Classic about 80% of the time, and Photoshop CC for most of the rest. Photoshop is at version 20, which means it is all-powerful bloatware. That's a good thing and a bad thing! It'll do nearly anything, but it is a black hole that sucks time you can't get back. Lightroom does most of the preliminary and final work a lot more efficiently (cull editing, adding metadata, renaming files, sorting, rating, developing, cropping, light spotting, web posting, book production, and printing). Photoshop is a bitmap editor, featuring layers, masking, pixel-level retouching, adding text, etc.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

Go ahead and look at Photos in your Launchpad. It does 95% of all the editing I generally need to do. Best of all ....it's free.

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

In addition to that Apple Photos has feature called extensions which enables you to send a picture to another application such as Affinity Photo and/or Luminar for editing. It even works with the NIK collection and the thing with Apple Photos is at anytime if you decide you don”t like the edit you can reset the picture to the original.

ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or

I forgot about the extensions, that is where I have ON1, Capture 1 and Elements.

bsprague Loc: Lacey, WA, USA

'What is the best (and easiest) processing software to go along with my new computer"

You already know Photoshop Elements, so that's easiest. Nothing is "best", but Photoshop Elements has a capable version of Adobe Camera Raw.

wrangler5 Loc: Missouri

This. I'm sure the current version of Elements will read your raw files, and its operation should be familiar. There probably are a lot of new features included in the current version, but I'll bet Adobe has videos covering each one of 'em.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Adobe Photoshop CC.

sergiohm

Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop subscription

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

If you're using Elements, just get the current version. It's a lot better than 10, and will open your D750 files. If you want something more capable, Try Capture One or the Photoshop/Lightroom suite. The most economical way to get outstanding software and staying current, so you don't have to sweat trying to get a 3 yr old camera to work with 10 year old software is the Ps/Lr solution.

warrenvon Loc: Ellicott City, MD

I still use Elements 10 and it will open D750 .nef files. You need to update your ACR (RAW files preprocessor in Elements). Once you dod that your present MAC will process D750 files.
If you buy a new MAC it will be supplied with Catalina operating system which will NOT play well with ay of Adobe file handling software. The new MAC software will only work with 64 bit applications and drivers. In simple terms, some Adobe drivers etc are still 32 bit and as such will not work. Adobe is "working the issue". They have had over a year and still no completely functional Catalina software are in place!
GOOD luck with your search.

I'd update my Elements 10 ACR version and stick with what you have for now.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Luminar--I am learning to love it.

KankRat Loc: SW Chicago Suburbs

I can't believe how much you can do with just Apple Photos.