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Downloading, Printing, and Sharing Your Photos

In This Chapter

arrow Choosing photo software

arrow Transferring pictures to your computer using Nikon ViewNX 2

arrow Processing Raw (NEF) files

arrow Taking steps to ensure great print quality

arrow 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 depend 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 ...

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