No so good for the savers and pensioners!

The rich can afford good health care, food, safer cars and neighborhoods.

LR will show you thumbnails of the pictures on your camera card whether in JPG or RAW.
Once you have downloaded the selected images you will be able to view them full size without processing.
Then just process the ones you want.

You can also set LR up to automatically apply processing as the files are imported into LR - this includes RAW processing and lens correction.

LR clone tool is OK for dust spots and similar but for much greater control it is best to export to another program - easy from LR and it takes the edited file back in.

It is very doubtful that you would really need Photoshop and is much cheaper to get Photoshop Elements that has the major bits of PS without all the surplus controls that a professional would ask for (and have time to master them).

There are some good deals on PS Elements and remember that after purchase you own it - not rent it for as long as you keep paying the fees!

Most people (a lot of pro's too) do perhaps 95% of their work in LR and only go vert to Elements or PS for more complex jobs.

Another lightweight and easy to make is to use internal wall cladding planks - which are tong and groove - held together with a couple of planks across the others. Again, hinge the sections in a zig-zag shape.

This method would be quite neat, low cost and easy to make up even for people new to DIY.

You may be able to make - or purchase - some lightweight narrow wardrobe doors and use simple hinges to hold them together in a zig-zag shape which would be self supporting.

For very light weight partitions you can get spring loaded poles - normally used for shower curtains - which would go between floor and ceiling without any fixings.

I did a lot of research on UWA lens including hands on at a camera shop and various reviews. A most useful review on 8 Ultra Wide Angle lens is on Youtube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRSyTOosOcc
As a result I purchased the Canon 10~18mm for its quality, lightness and silent AF. I have been very pleased with it and have been on several outdoor photo shoots where the lens has stayed on the camera all day.

If you find yourself close enough to identify a dangerous mosquito - then it is probably too late! :-o

Have a look at more professional services. I tried our equivalent to Walmart and was very disappointed with the colours and printing. I have also noticed that firms - especially the cheaper ones - seem to favour 4:3 aspect prints where DSLR's are 3:2 and I refuse to make my prints conform with what they want me to have.

Owned a MAC for a while thinking it would be much better and solve the PC problems but changed back.

MAC's are built better - but much more expensive.
MAC's were more secure but no so much now.
MAC's are faster - but be prepared to purchase a new machine every few years.

I tried both a iMac and a laptop.
The iMac was a nice neat computer - but didn't appear to have any upgrade potential.

The big but: the software I wanted to run wouldn't run on that version of the operating system and the newer operating system system wouldn't run on the hardware I had so I would need to purchase a newer machine to run the software - for now.

The laptop was a lovely solid machine but even worse software problems as it was older. But it does make a great DVD player for taking on holiday!

I had moved from Windows problems to MAC problems so moved back to the system I knew that was easily and cheaply upgradable and runs my favorite software from the latest LightRoom to my 18 year old Lotus suite.

Other than using a free program this is probably the best bet.
Another big advantage with LR is that it is non-destructive so you can make as many alterations as you like and go back to wherever you want to without affecting the original file at all.
You can also make different versions of the same picture.

I should sincerely hope so too - or was this a typo?

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Also checkout B&H lectures on YouTube for as much tuition as you can stand.

I would recommend Adobe Lightroom - it will take your RAW files and convert them to many formats including JPG.
It has a quite gentle learning curve, is very versatile, will do probably 95% of the processing you need and will organize your photos as well as rename or resize as required.
There are profiles in it for Canon as well as other cameras and also lens profiles which can automatically correct for your lens.
There are many very good Lightroom tutorials on YouTube - especially check out the B&H lectures on there, many are 90 mins long.

VR - you can satisfactorily hand hold down to 1/8 or 1/4 sec depending on focal length.