Nikon D3200 Digital Field Guide

Appendix A: Postproduction

Gone are the days of developing your photographs using enlargers and trays of chemicals. Now, image postproduction is done in the digital darkroom, more commonly known as your home computer. There are a great many choices of free image and video editing applications (including those from Nikon that came with your camera), as well as free applications, like iPhoto, that come on many computers.

There are also scaled-back editions of the industry leading applications from Adobe, including Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements. The really good part about all of this is that you don’t need to spend a lot of money to get started, and you can always upgrade in the future if you outgrow the free or more inexpensive options.