I do have a DVD burner in my computer...I just don't see that any DVD burning software came with it. I burned a movie to a DVD using a trial version on DVD santa, but it says that I need to buy it now in order to have it work again...so I know I can burn if only I have the right software.

I just don't know if there is any free software that will work for my photo files, or if I am going to need to buy one...and if so, what the best one would be to buy.

The free software I tried so far keeps telling me that I can't burn the raw files for some reason.

I am still confused about something.

From Adobe Bridge I can save my files to an alternate location. I can sent it to my drive in order to burn a CD. After I send them there, my computer gives me a message that they are ready to burn, and I burn them.

If I put a DVD in the drive, I can still send the folder there, but I need DVD burning software. my CD burning software will not work.

Is Picassa actually burning software, or just a way to send it to the drive like Bridge can do?

And...it is much less expensive too! I think I will try the trial version and see what I think.

I found the answer to this. It is the HDR processing I was looking for. I found the CS3 HDR processing somewhat confusing to use. I don't think my results turned out very good.

I previously tried the trial version of PhotoMatrix and I found it to be much more user friendly. I am wondering if it is worth buying, or if with time I will feel more comfortable with what CS3 offers.

Does anyone have opinions about this?

Could someone please tell me how to combine 3 different exposures on CS3? I am just learning the program. I took some eclipse pictures last night, and have 3 to 5 bracketed exposures that I would like to combine.

Thank you. I will try Picasa, and see how that works.

My computer did not come with any, and the ones I am downloading for free don't allow me to save RAW or PSD files. What could I use for burning software that would allow me to save all my files on DVD?

It sounds like with the K10D, you might not have a need to convert to TIFF, but with other models you would do so in order not to lose information over time and use of opening and closing the image? I think that is what I am understanding as I read throught this.

I have just been learning CS, and what I have been doing is to save as PSD after my RAW adjustments. Then I usually go to do some other adjustment layers, and cleaning it up. I usually save in TIFF or PSD before and after I flatten my image. I only make jpegs for saving on the web or emails. I just read that it was better to save in PSD or TIFF to retail data. I am still learning myself.

That is very nice! I got some too, but have not had time to work on them. I was going to try and combine 3 exposures and see how it looked.