I am looking for suggestions for free or cheap photo editing software. I have RAW NEF files from a Nikon and am trying to use View NX2 but it takes almost 10 minutes PER PICTURE to edit/save - this is unreasonable! View NX won't load the NEF file - I get a message that NEF files are unsupported. Photoshop keeps freezing, Bibble works, but saves the NEF files as JPEG at the same MB as the NEF and 14MB+ is too large to upload online. When I save it this way and use the converter from View NX2 it compresses to about 10MB which is still too large. View NX2 editing the JPEG photos works well, but takes a 4MB picture and compresses it to 1MB or less --- so am I missing something with one of the programs or does anyone recommend a photo editing software that actually works? I've got about 400 pictures, NEF files that need to be edited - but it's going to take a month using View NX2 and I can't find anything else that works. Suggestions or advice would be helpful!
BTW, I am using a Toshiba laptop, 3 years old, 2.2GHz processor, 2GB ram. I don't have the money to get a new laptop or pay mega bucks for software - but there's got to be something that works!
Added (1). I am also using Vista and I need the files after editing and converting to be around 5 Mb.
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