1. FastStone viewer for culling images before downloading..

Http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm.

2. Downloader Pro to get images onto PC.

Http://www.breezesys.com/Downloader/index.htm.

3. Rawshooter Essentials (still) - for raw conversion.

No longer available.

4. Photoshop.

Http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/.

5. Neatimage for noise reduction when required.

Http://www.neatimage.com/.

6. Qimage for getting the best printed results.

Http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/.

7. Irfanview especially for batch conversions.

Http://www.irfanview.com/.

Regards, Mark.

Http://www.pbase.com/mark_allen.

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Try a search for the recent thread I think it was called "best photoshop plugins" or favorite photoshop plugins. It got quite a few responses..

I don't have any plug-ins yet, but I'm toying with the idea of "portraiture."..

FastStone > ACR > PSCS2..

Sometimes Noiseware, as plug-in for PSCS (very occasionally, because of 30Ds great high ISO)..

Cheers,Alex..

Equipment list is in the profile...

The top two applications in my arsenal are:.

1. Rawshooter Premium (no longer available).

2. Photoshop CS2.

Jerryhttp://www.jbellphotography.com..

Lightroom, no question.Now that you've judged the quality of my typing, take a look at my photos..http://www.photo.net/photos/GlenBarrington..

Irfanview, Nikon Capture NX & QimageChris Elliott.

*Nikon* D Eighty + Fifty - Other equipment in Profile.

Http://PlacidoD.zenfolio.com/..

Having just gotten an Olympus DSLR, I can't imagine doing without Olympus Studio, which automates editing functions such as distortion correction, shading compensation, and tone correction, and allows me to use the camera tethered to my computer...

Silkypix Developer Studio 3 for all raw conversion (that is all my photographs).

Paint Shop Pro X.

IdImager.

And, out on a limb as I'm a Konica Minolta user, Dalifer..

Finally, EasyHDR might be about to make it onto the essentials list..

FastStone>RSP (RawShooter Premium)>Photoshop>Focus Magic and other plug ins.Or, FastStone>Lightroom>Photoshop.

Troll WhispererBill Turner.

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Serious answer!Now that you've judged the quality of my typing, take a look at my photos..http://www.photo.net/photos/GlenBarrington..

This is a beginners forum. Beginners can get good pictrues using what comes in the bocx with the camera, at least for the first little while..

When it is time to spend even more money or pretty close to the time a digital SLR is bought - Photoshop Elements, for about $100 in the US and Canada, is a great program..

When you are ready for 16x20 framed photos, MAYBE it will be time to spend even more..

BAK..