In order to make pictures the raw information has to be processed in various ways.
Raw files hold information about the light that fell on the sensor that can be used to create pictures but don't actually hold pictures themselves. I'd appreciate your recommendations for entry-level software options for editing Olympus. I see where I can do some editing with the camera, but I'm really limited by the small display. I've had my Olympus E-M5 II for about 9 months now, and would like to start playing with raw images. Lots of choices and opinions are out there, methinks you just gotta jump in and start swimming.!!! I had no luck with the free, open-source software programs due to the amount of computer code tinkering those programs sometimes need to run effectively.
Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom probably have the largest amount of video support on YouTube, ranging from poorly to expertly produced.Īffinity Photo comes in probably second place, support-wise on YouTube, with several authors having produced really fine videos.
YouTube can be your best friend, when the software program you are using has plenty of instructional videos available. There is also the learning curve presented by each new program's user interface. My best advice, download one software program's trial version and give the program a try, then, move on to the next program's trial version and give that one a try, on and on until you find a program that you really enjoy using.Īs a beginner, there is a fairly steep learning curve regarding image processing in general lots of new nomenclature and concepts to learn. I arrived at DxO PhotoLab as my main RAW processor and Affinity Photo as my go-to program for layer-based and deep pixel editing (for example, portrait retouching) workflow after several months of trials of several different image editing software programs, starting as a complete beginner.Īffinity and DxO were the only two programs whose user interfaces meshed well with my brain. I am presuming when you wrote "entry-level" you meant easy to learn?Įasy to learn does not necessarily mean entry level or limited in power some very capable RAW processing software programs are fairly easy to learn Affinity Photo and DxO PhotoLab, to name two.
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