Specifications

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CAPTURE NX
PHOTO - VIDEO - PRO AUDIO
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 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 batch processing of Capture
NX provides superior benefits of
simplicity and saved time.
Edit List: For easier, more intuitive edit-
ing, the Capture NX Edit List helps you to
track, cancel or add new modifications.
Markers: Markers let you create multiple
versions of an original NEF image, all
within the original image file. Imagine, 2,
6, 8, 10 or more versions within one file!
No need to search your computer to find
versions – just open the original NEF and
click on the Markers to review them. And
no need for extensive hard disk space for
many copies of versions. All copies can be
contained in one file for convenience and
efficiency – the original file’s size changes
by a tiny amount! Retain original NEF’s
raw versatility, as the original image and
each version is securely stored.
Advanced Noise Reduction: Capture NX
noise reduction offers the latest, Nikon
algorithms to reduce or remove unwanted
noise while retaining important details in
the image. This tool is especially useful
for images shot with high ISO.
Lens Correction Tools (some functions
available for RAW files only): Expand
your imaging possibilities with three
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.
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 TIFF files. Ensures
that all editing enhancements deliver as
much detail in your images as possible.
Color Management: Color Management
tools 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 the 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: 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 in
combination with the NEF Exposure
Compensation tool for restoring lost
highlight details, you can recover many
images that you might otherwise discard.
Printing: From Editor and Browser, you
can print individual images, contact
sheets and print packages, while main-
taining a fully color-managed workflow.
U Point Technology
Capture NX uses Nik Software’s patented
U Point technology to give you the results that
you envision. This innovation in photo image
processing and editing, applicable to Nikon’s
NEF files as well as JPEG and TIFF files, fea-
tures powerful tools to easily enhance images.
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.
Color Control Points:
Color Control Points let you select and isolate
an entire image or an area within it for
enhancement in minutes. 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-selec-
tion. With Color Control Points, it takes just a
few seconds to achieve the 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 dragged from point to point,
for precise movement and positioning to a
desired effect. 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 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.
Versatile Functions and Intuitive Photo Editing
Red-Eye Reduction
Thanks to U Point 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 adjustments,
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.