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Unless you only take pictures, and then immediately print them directly to a PictBridge-
compatible printer, somewhere along the line you’re going to need to make use of the
broad array of software available for the Nikon D7000. The picture-fixing options in
the Retouch menu let you make only modest modifications to your carefully crafted
photos. If your needs involve more than fixing red-eye, cropping and trimming, and
maybe adjusting tonal values with D-Lighting, you’re definitely going to want to use a
utility or editor of some sort to perfect your images. After you’ve captured some great
images and have them safely stored on your Nikon D7000’s memory card, you’ll need
to transfer them from your camera and memory card to your computer, where they can
be organized, fine-tuned in an image editor, and prepared for web display, printing, or
some other final destination.
Fortunately, there are lots of software utilities and applications to help you do all these
things. This chapter will introduce you to a few of them. Please note that this is not a
“how-to-do-it” software chapter. This book has already expanded to more than twice
the size of my previous camera guides, and I’m going to use every available page to offer
advice on how to get the most from your D7000. There’s no space to explain how to
use all the features of Nikon Capture NX2, nor how to tweak RAW file settings in
Adobe Camera Raw. Entire books have been written about both products. This chap-
ter is intended solely to help you get your bearings among the large number of utilities
and applications available, to help you better understand what each does, and how you
might want to use them. At the very end of the chapter, however, I’m going to make an
exception and provide some simple instructions for using Adobe Camera Raw, to help
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Useful Software for
the Nikon D7000