Hey guys, I'm fairly new to photography. Would anyone have

I've heard good things about this adobe company.

ms paint will let you resize your images, per rules, OP, you fucking faggot.

If you bought a new camera, nikon comes with a software called viewnx 2, usually in a cd. Don't know about canon, but should be the same.

That kind of software will let you do basic stuff with raw files such as exposure compensarion, contrast, brightness, sharpness, white balance, picture control and resizing. Their jpeg exports are quite amazing too.
Hasselblad offers a free software like those that is quite good too.

For more advanced options you should either pay for lightroom (expensive depending on your situation) or if get linux and download darktable 2.0 for free. Both are amazing tools with advanced options like noise reduction, retouching tools, lens compensation, watermarks, etc...

I stick to viewnx2 because I dont have the money for lightroom, but it's basically the best software out there, followed by darktable. Such a pity it's not available for windows...

>>2904522
No mention of Gimp? Step it up

Darktable
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Gimp and Photoshop are for photo-manipulation, using them to make the typcally minor edits to exposure etc required for photography is a waste of effort....unless you actually need to spend the time on a single image.

>>2904524
OP here, I've been giving GIMP 2 a try, I was just interested in something that would help me learn a bit more about photo editing.

>>2904522
Super helpful, thanks a lot!

lightroom+photoshop is a pretty good combo imo

Adobe offers some great Freeware! Check out Photoshop and Lightroom