Trigger Finger

Well my best christmas present this year was the Nikon D40 DSLR camera. I have been wanting to get into proper photography for years and this really is the ideal camera for such a situation. It has all the advanced functionality that higher models have, yet is comparitively small and light, plus has a lot of helpers for beginners. I HIGHLY recommend it. Check out my flickr stream. What I am having trouble with is software.

So far I have tried Nikons software, Picasa2, MS Expression Media, and Windows Live Photo Gallery.

 

 Nikon‘s software crashes ALL THE TIME on my vista box.

Picasa2 is pretty good, but lacks a lot of editing features.

 

Expression Media is very good, but the tiny window they give you for rotating, and the lack of a flickr publishing option for RAW images sucks. 

Windows Live Photo Gallery is pretty damn good. It has a good organiser (but then that’s not a problem in any of the programmes I have tried. It’s integration with Flickr is perfect (publishes from RAW)! But it has several problems. It’s rotation tool is the worst of all of them (90 degrees only), and it insists on monitoring ‘My Pictures’ and ‘My Videos’ which drives me MAD! And it can’t quick edit RAW files. But still WLPG is very effective when combined with Photoshop Elements so until one of you kind people can tell me of a better solution, I am sticking to it. WLPG is my manager/publisher, and Elements my editor. My checklist for the perfect image management tool would be: WLPG with its RAW publishing to flickr Built in quick editor that works with RAW Rotation in tiny gradients (like 0.1 degrees at a time) in a large window The very snappy performance of WLPG Tag management that actually writes to the file!

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