Raw

[Brittany White]

Recently purchased a Nikon D3100 and I would like to shoot in raw. Any free software you guys can suggest to me?

So far I only have Picasa

[iqscotland]

For the first year of my project I just used View NX2, which came with my D3100, for RAW and Gimp for anything else.

[Ian Watts]

+1 for GIMP, but the software that comes with your camera should be able to handle it.

[Frank Hymus]

Yep, View NX2 is fine to get started. If you do graduate to commercial software, don't get Capture NX2 from Nikon. It doesn't do halfway near as much as the price would lead you to expect. Nikon do great cameras and lenses, but their software basically sucks.

[Tuncay]

On Windows, free and open source?
· RawTherapee: http://rawtherapee.com/
· UFRaw: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/
· Rawstudio: http://rawstudio.org/

[Tuncay]

@iwatts Gimp does not handle RAW files itself. Otherwise I recommend Gimp highly for additional editing (besides it does not have 16bit support too).

[Ian Watts]

@wayoflife My apologies - it does with a plug in - http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

[Ian Watts]

@wayoflife Just noticed you mentioned that - also available as a plug in for Gimp

[Brittany White]

@wayoflife Does it only work for Windows? I have a mac.

[Brittany White]

@iqscotland Thank you!!

[Tuncay]

@kaleidoscopeyes I thought you would have a Windows. I just assume it, if not noted otherwise. These programs are build for Mac OSX too. For RawTherapee, select what system you have. 64-bit or 32-bit, which Mac OSX version. The download page is: http://rawtherapee.com/downloads

[Andreas]

I know its not free but iPhoto is only 15 usd, easy to work with and makes raw just as easy as jpeg.

[Brittany White]

@primitiveprobe I have iPhoto, actually. I wasn't sure if I could or not. Thanks!

[Brittany White]

@wayoflife Thanks!

[Andreas]

@kaleidoscopeyes Excellent, then you can import it like any other photo. Only difference is you get a few more choices on import if you take raw+jpeg.