Nikon D600 For Dummies

6

Downloading, Printing, and Sharing Your Photos

In This Chapter

• Choosing photo software
• Transferring pictures to your computer using Nikon ViewNX 2
• Processing Raw (NEF) files
• Taking steps to ensure great print quality
• Preparing your photos for online sharing

For many digital photographers, moving pictures from the camera to the computer — downloading, in geekspeak — is one of the more confusing aspects of the art form. Unfortunately, providing detailed downloading instructions in this book is impossible because the steps vary widely, depending on which computer software you use for the job.

To give you as much help as I can, however, this chapter starts with a quick review of photo software, just in case you aren't happy with your current solution. Following that, you can find information about downloading images, converting pictures that you shoot in the Raw format to a standard format, and preparing your pictures for print and online sharing. I do include specifics for performing some of these critical tasks using Nikon ViewNX 2, which is the free software that ships with your camera.