Hi new here need some advice

[Thomas i]

I have recently bought a xt30ii and I struggle to find a edeting program. I love taking pictures but hate editing them. So I am looking for program that is easy to use. I primarily use jpeg sooc. Any suggestions.

Thomas 

[Olaf W.]

Welcome to our forum. You should give some more Information about the equipment you‘re intending to use for editing.

[pw-pix]

People looking to get away from Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop subscriptions have been praising Affinity Photo as a viable replacement for Photoshop. It's a perpetual licence instead of a subscription and is affordably priced. Available for Windows and Mac computers (and iPad).

I've not used it, but I have used their Publisher DTP software and it's very good.

 

[jerryy]

As @Olaf W. mentions, knowing which equipment you will be using would make it easier to offer editing suggestions. There are plenty of no-cost and low-cost (and high-cost) editing softwares available, some are cross platform, some are only for particular operating systems. The Affinity Photo option @pw-pix mentions is very good and would be in the low-cost group.

By editing, do you mean things such as changing white balance settings or film simulations or cropping or something more substantial?

Also, if you are intending to edit your images, have you considered shooting in raw instead of jpeg? There are plenty of advantages for you to do that and if you decide you wanted just a jpeg version after all, it is very, very easy to get that, hardly any effort at all.

[Thomas i]

Thanks for the feedback 

[SPB-007]

There is also Raw Power and the newer Nitro from 'gentlemen coders’ Nitro/Raw Power on Mac - that is if you are on Mac. If on Windows or Mac, Affinity is a great program too, but more complex than wither Nitro or Raw Power.

[SimonF]

I personally have a subscription with Adobe Lightroom, which includes Photoshop. I don't tend to do a huge amount of editing, however i do also have installed on my laptop Fuji X Raw Studio which is very good, particularly with regards to Fujifilm film simulations, and you can store custom recipes on there too. Another fairly basic one which i still have is Raw File Converter EX 3, by SILKYPIX. I cannot remember where exactly i got it from, but if you put it in a search engine it should come up, it allows you to do basic editing, cropping etc, and has the Fujifilm film simulations too.

[MARRIEDGUY9]

I use Capture One......some say it has better results with Fuji RAW files than Adobe; however, I've never used Adobe and can't compare.  I like Capture One; easy to use, a lot of tutorials available, and I'm happy with the results.  The sky replacement function in Adobe has me thinking about switching though.  Capture One's AI select is just OK at selecting sky, depends on how much landscaping you want to do.