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1. First I've heard of it. Commercial Freeware?

Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:32 PM

Yesterday

https://www.nchsoftware.com/photoeditor/kb/free.html

Is this program completely free?

Yes.

We make this software free with the hope you will like it so much you might come back and try some of our other many other programs.

There are absolutely no restrictions in this version of the program.

Here are the other programs they reference:

https://www.nchsoftware.com/software/index.html

Quite a few.

It will be interesting to see what people think of this.

I get such great jpegs from Nikons that I almost always need only Preview.app to get super results, and I did a lot of medium format film photography.
Beyond that, GIMP, Darktable and RawTherapee for raw files.
I'm so pleased with the jpegs out of the camera that I haven't felt a need to do RAW.
But I keep them all "just in case"
Just in case I have time to deal with them.

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First I've heard of it. Commercial Freeware? usonian Yesterday #1

I do minor modifications bif 21 hrs ago #2

I find that digital camera sensors block up highlights, but preserve detail in shadows, the opposite of film. usonian 20 hrs ago #3

I've been using PhotoShop for ages bif 19 hrs ago #4

You'll be just fine! usonian 18 hrs ago #5

Unfortunately, I don't think I can use GIMP bif 17 hrs ago #6

Try this usonian 15 hrs ago #7

No luck bif 4 hrs ago #8