Digital Cameras photo editing

[Horny Ringman]

My wife just got a new pentax digital SLR camera. She has always been a fairly decent photographer adn she wants to start taking pics of her friends kids and stuff for a little side business. I was thinking about getting her some sort of good digital photo editing software for Xmas. Anyone know of anything that is good for professional photo editing. I want something that is pretty top of the line since she will be taking peoples money, she may need to do more than just fix the red eye. thanks.

 

[EEE]

adobe photoshop. what the pros use

 

[dustin_c1]

Most pro-level cameras come with raw file processing software. I have only used Nikon Capture, but I haven't heard great things about any company's raw processing software. I'm sure Pentax's software is like the others - good enough.

As long as you can manipulate the color curves on a per-channel basis, it will do almost all of what you need it to do.

As the above poster suggests, the only software that is going to be a big enough improvement over Pentax's raw processing software will be Adobe Photoshop. Be sure to get something higher than version 6 (that means version 7 or CS) because the later versions allow you to apply icc printer color profiles to images and actually proof your prints on a properly calibrated monitor!