Nikon CAPTURE NX BROCHURE

http://capturenx.com/

Intuitive editing, elegantly simple

PHOTO EDITING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

Fast forward to a new
generation of image editing

Go to the next generation of high-quality image

editing and processing to supercharge your

workflow. Advanced Nikon Capture 4 plus

exclusive patented U PointTMtechnology, by Nik

Software Inc., delivers easier access to the results

of your imagination.

The new Capture NX software releases not only

the newest powers of Nikon’s Electronic Format

(NEF) files; for the first time, it makes JPEG and

TIFF processing and editing elegant and easy

enough for any photographer to implement, with

no need for complicated procedures. Its new

interface provides access to powerful and visually

intuitive enhancement tools you need, so it’s easier

to explore, with more visual potential. With

Capture NX to realize your imagination, the

possibilities are endless!

U PointTMTechnology

Only Capture NX image editing uses Nik Software’s patented
U Point

TM

technology to give you the results that you envision.
This new innovation in photo image processing and editing,
applicable to Nikon’s NEF files as well as any camera’s JPEG and
TIFF files*, features powerful tools to enhance images without
the complicated processes of other photo editing software;
implementation using Capture NX is elegant and easy by
design. Simply select among the available Control Points and
adjust each point’s sliders until you see the image as you like it.
It’s a highly visual, intuitive technique. The
extensive Nikon toolbox for NEF that is provided
complements U Point

TM

. This combination of

features is unsurpassed!

* Please refer to Functions/Files Compatibility Chart on back of this
brochure for details about file compatibility.

Color Control Points

Color Control Points let you directly select and
isolate an entire image or an area within it for
enhancement in a fraction of the time that other
image editing tools require. Within moments,
you can choose and use any Color Control Point
to modify hue, brightness, saturation, red, green,
blue, warmth and contrast within each selected
area. When you use multiple Control Points,
Capture NX learns to distinguish among the
Control Points and effects changes to your
desired area-selection. So you save time and elim­inate complication. With Color Control Points, it
takes just a few seconds to achieve the degree of
professional quality image enhancement and
control you want!

Black, White, Neutral Control Points

Black, White and Neutral Control Points can be used to set the
dynamic range and correct color casts in your images. Neutral
Control Points can also be used to set color balance in an
image. Each Control Point appears on the image and can be
easily dragged from point to point, for precise movement and
positioning to achieve the desired effect. The Control Points’
sliders let you adjust their effect for the respective Control Point
areas. Neutral Control Points can be used to set a targeted color

to any color available within the color picker. This is useful for
removing color casts and toning, even without a neutral object
in the scene. Use of multiple Neutral Control Points helps
reduce multiple color casts and enhance selected colors in
images. The drag, point and slider control is very easy to use,
yet very powerful and creative in its effect!

Show Selection for Accurate Control

Use the “show selection” feature for each Color Control Point

to see which area of the image is affected by the Color Control
Point. This process reverses the image into a black and white
view and clearly shows the image areas under adjustment.

Red-Eye Reduction

Thanks to U Point

TM

Technology,
red-eye can be easily removed.
Just place a Red-Eye Reduction
Control Point on each of the
offending eyes, and away it goes!
With just a few slider adjust-

retaining important details in the image. This tool is especially
useful for images shot with high ISO.

16-bit image compatibility (available for RAW and 16-bit
TIFF files only)

Capture NX functions are fully compatible with 16-bit images,
regardless of whether they originate as NEF or 16-bit TIFF files.
This ensures that all editing enhancements deliver as much
detail in your images as possible.

Color Management

With Color Management tools, Capture NX makes workflow
management more comprehensive. For example, the ability to
convert and assign a color profile helps ensure that colors are
accurate from your first to last edit. Utilize Capture NX’s Soft
Proof tool to view how a specific printer will recreate image
colors on your monitor. The Capture NX print function lets you
use an assigned profile to print your images.

D-Lighting

The D-Lighting tool lets you simultaneously reveal details in shad­ows and highlights, and correct for areas of underexposure,
backlighting or insufficient flash, without altering properly
exposed areas or introducing unwanted artifacts. Slider control
allows you to select the relationship of brightness to darkness.
When used with Nikon’s NEF Exposure Compensation tool for
restoring lost highlight details, the combination of Exposure
Compensation and D-Lighting can help you recover many
images that you might otherwise discard.

Printing

Capture NX makes printing very convenient. From directly
within the software’s Editor and Browser modes, you can
command printing of individual images, contact sheets and
print packages, while maintaining a fully color-managed work­flow.

Features and functions not shown here, but which are avail­able in Nikon Capture 4, are included in Capture NX as well.

Selective Tools

With Capture NX, you get additional tools for selective appli­cation of over 25 enhancements. For example, the Brush tool
can paint in or paint out an enhancement, the Lasso and
Marquee tools offer familiar selections, and the Gradient tool
can gradually add or remove an effect.

Browser

The completely redesigned Capture NX Browser lets you sort,
organize, compare, tag and improve images. Use it to select an
image to enhance, rename a series of photographs, or quickly
and easily apply a batch process to a group of images.

Batching

By automatically applying one or more enhancements to a
series of images, the new, improved batch processing of
Capture NX gives photographers superior benefits of simplicity
and saved time.

Edit List

For easier, more intuitive photo editing, the Capture NX Edit List
helps you to track, cancel or add new modifications.

Versions

Versions is a very powerful tool for Nikon’s NEF files, making it
possible to create multiple versions of your original NEF image,
all within the original image file. Imagine, 2, 6, 8, 10 or more
versions within one file! There is no need to search your com­puter to find versions — just open the original NEF and click on
the Versions to review them. Nor is there any need for exten­sive hard disk space for many copies of versions. All such copies
can be contained in one file for convenience, creativity and effi­ciency — the original file’s size changes by a tiny amount!
Versions of JPEG and TIFF files can also be stored, as long as the
image window remains open.

Lens Correction Tools (some functions available for RAW
files only)

Expand your imaging possibilities with three original tools for
correcting various lens effects: Vignette Control can automati­cally reduce the effect of marginal lumination; Color
Aberration Control can reduce color fringing effects; and
Distortion Control can reduce pincushion and barrel distortion
effects.

Advanced Noise Reduction

Capture NX noise reduction offers the latest, most advanced
Nikon algorithms to reduce or remove unwanted noise while

D-LightingColor Aberration Control

Making advanced image editing more visually intuitive, Nikon’s new way

Versatile Functions

Enjoy the sheer power and convenience of intuitive photo editing

New Feature

ments, you can use a Color Control Point to make blue (or any
other eye color) eyes brighter, darker or more radiant. With a
mere Ctrl-D click, you can duplicate your Color Control Point so
you can rest assured that the effect to each eye will be the same.

Setting great value on photographers’ spirits

• Non-Destructive Image Editing
Capture NX applies non-destructive image processing to NEF
files, which means that you’ll never compromise your original
NEF images or image quality. All enhancements are saved in an
Instruction Set along with the original data and Thumbnail.
Ordinarily, changes made to a JPEG or TIFF file will affect its orig­inal image data; to avoid this, save as another file name, or use
Nikon’s original technology. So instead, your Original JPEG and
TIFF images can be saved conveniently as “converted” NEF files.

• NEF Quality
To help you realize more of the potential of NEF, Capture NX
utilizes camera settings within any camera-produced NEF file
and ensures that parameters set within any Nikon camera-pro­duced NEF file (White Balance, Sharpening, Color Mode,
Saturation, etc.) are applied to the image as originally select­ed. So your creative picture taking decisions are preserved, and
there’s less to do later, when you’re working on your picture
on a computer.

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