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Originally Posted by Don Hoey
...relative prices to suggest that you can do a lot without breaking the bank, even if you achieve that through using more than one program.
... If you run NX then you will need another photo editor to do cloning and some of the fancy pants stuff that Christine, Clive, Craftysnapper and others do.
...NX, a jpeg can be saved as a NEF file
Don
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Photoshop is available in the much cheaper Elements form, about £50 for those who can get on with the Adobe interface. The only thing that seemed to be lacking is curves, for which you have to have 3rd party plug-in, though maybe Lightroom has now got there. On curves the beauty of DPP is that the RGB control window shows levels AND curves in all 3 colours superimposed with main window being a very accurate preview.
If NX doesn't include cloning (as DPP does), then yes a 2nd stage prog is essential; one is anyway for horizon levelling (or use a bubble-cube in the first place?)
Do you really mean "in NX, a jpeg can be saved as a NEF file", ie would it make some of its features available for non-Nikon files?