Looking for a program to process nicon raw

[Dog boy Dave]

I have a Nicon kool pix 5700. I think the raw format for nicon is Neff. but kinda confused. It seems to be propriotory to Nicon. Can anyone recomend a freeware program to do minor color adjustments and such for the nicon native images while in raw? ? I use the Nicon program to download from camera but cant process the images other than convert to .jpg and such.

 

[Misled]

Don't know about freeware, but Photoshop Elements can. It runs about a hundred bucks.

 

[pyroboy1der]

Picasa from google can do it. The only hitch is that depending on what camera you have Picasa sometimes puts a small red line down the right edge of the print (my nikon d7000 does this) It's supposed to be fixed in a future update.

 

[BlueCorn]

Download the Adobe DNG converter. It'll convert your NEF to DNG which can be opened by just about any editor.

 

[xtm]

Download ViewNX from 'Nicon' free: http://www.nikonusa.com/Nikon-Products/Product/Imaging-Software/NVNX/ViewNX.html