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Nikon 25338 User Manual

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  • Page 2: Trademark Information

    Nikon reserves the right to change the specifications of the hardware and software described in these manuals at any time and without any prior notice. Neither Nik Software, Inc. nor Nikon will be held liable for any damages resulting from the use of this product.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Introduction Camera Adjustments ........45 ..........1 RAW Adjustments ..........50 RAW File Format Benefi ts ........2 Lens Adjustments ..........52 Camera Relationship ..........3 Light & Color Adjustments ........54 System Requirements & Detail Adjustments ...........57 Installation ..........5 Enhancement Steps ..........59 System Requirements .........5 Show/Hide Triangle ...........60 Installation ............5...
  • Page 4 ii ii Crop ..............77 Redo ..............125 Cut ..............125 Toolbar F4 – Black, White, and Copy ..............125 Neutral Control Points ......81 Paste ..............126 Black Control Point ..........81 Duplicate ............126 White Control Point .........82 Delete ..............126 Neutral Control Point ........82 Select All ............126 Toolbar F5 –...
  • Page 5 iii iii Color Profi le ............157 Zoom Out ............198 Apply Profi le ...........157 Full Screen ............198 Convert to Profi le ...........158 Hide Palettes ...........199 Compare ............199 Control Points Menu ......161 Compare in Browser ........199 Color Control Points… ........161 Compare in Editor ..........200 Black Control Point ........163 Compare With Original ........200 White Control Point…...
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  • Page 7: Introduction

    Introduction Capture NX™ is a powerful editing and photographic processing application designed specifically for digital photographers. Its simple, straight-forward user interface makes image enhancement easy, and exclusive features based on U Point™ photo editing technology provide a fully non-destructive workflow, which takes the guess work out of editing.

  • Page 8: Raw File Format Benefi Ts

    RAW File Format Benefits Capture NX contains full support for Nikon RAW NEF images and can be used with any JPEG and TIFF (RGB or LAB based) files. With JPEG and TIFF files, you can begin enhancing the files immediately by selecting one of the enhancements from the Menus.

  • Page 9: Camera Relationship

    Menu, which gives you access to Capture NX was designed to support the various controls for each of these all of the features of your Nikon settings. Within the Camera Settings camera, allowing you to change many Palette you are given access to a...

  • Page 11: System Requirements & Installation

    System Requirements & Installation System Requirements Monitor resolution 800 × 600 pixels (1024 x 768 or higher Operating System recommended) with 16-bit color (High Windows XP Home Edition, Windows Color/thousands of colors) with 24-bit XP Professional, Windows 2000 color (True Color/millions of colors) Professional recommended Mac OS X (version 10.3.9 or later)
  • Page 12 : Nikon cannot guaran- Please note tee the operation of Capture NX when Always use the default RGB color using other Nikon software at the same space as the working color space This option enables the option time. Use This...

  • Page 15: U Point™ Technology

    U Point Technology ™ A key feature in Capture NX is U Point technology. The controls powered by U Point technology enable you to modify sections of a photo directly, without having to go through the time-consuming process of making a mask required in other software applications.
  • Page 16 Step 1. A Color Control Point is placed on the sky Step 1. Selection for greater darkness and saturation. Although this Control Point mainly affects the sky, some of the clouds are affected as well. Step 2. Next, a Color Control Point is placed to Step 2.
  • Page 17 Before After...
  • Page 18 The Capture NX Interface Editor Menu Bar Toolbar ( Page 13 ) ( Page 113-208 ) ( Page 71-94 ) Bird’s Eye Edit List Photo Info ( Page 97 ) ( Page 43 ) ( Page 99 ) File Directory Camera Settings IPTC ( Page 37 )

  • Page 19: The Capture Nx Interface

    The Capture NX Interface Capture NX’s interface was designed to put all of the important tools for enhancing a digital photograph right at your fingertips. This section contains a brief overview of each of the main elements that make up the Capture NX interface. Editor Bird’s Eye The main window of Capture NX, the...

  • Page 20: Image Window

    can place multiple enhancements within Camera Settings one step by linking enhancements, and By opening the Camera Settings you can create batch processes based Palette, you can see all of the camera- on the contents of the steps. You can generated data for the current image, also manually create new steps using from information regarding the camera...

  • Page 23: Getting Started

    Getting Started Opening Capture NX Capture NX can be opened by selecting Capture NX from the Start Menu within Windows or by double-clicking on the application icon in the Applications folder within the Mac OS. Welcome Screen Open Recent Image Open Recent Browser Drag an Image Here ( Mac Only)

  • Page 24: Welcome Screen

    most recent folders viewed within the Windows OS: Browser, with the most recent folder Click on the Start button at the bottom displayed at the top. Other recently of your screen and select either All browsed folders are displayed beneath Programs (Windows XP) or Programs that folder in chronological order.

  • Page 25: Browsing And Opening Images

    Browsing and Opening displayed within the Browser. Once you have found the image you want to edit, Images double-click on that image. Capture NX provides you with a number If you would like to navigate to a differ- of ways of locating and opening images ent window other than the My Pictures in order to enhance them: you can (Windows) or the Pictures folder (Mac...

  • Page 26: Window Functionality Within Capture Nx

    Window Functionality Grip Edge Within Capture NX This edge provides you with an area to grab and reposition the window. If the Each window within Capture NX window is currently docked, clicking and provides you with a number of different dragging the window with this edge controls for that window.

  • Page 27: File Format Differences

    The NEF file NEF image files are generated by all format saves the complete contents of Nikon Digital SLR cameras as well as a the Edit List along with the full image number of COOLPIX cameras. Some of...
  • Page 28 TIFF Please Note: TIFF saved with CMYK The TIFF file format is commonly used data can only be saved with 8-bits per as a standard for high-quality image channel of color information. reproduction. Saving your image to this JPEG format will result in a file that contains the final state of your image as you see it on your monitor, with full image quality.

  • Page 29: How To Print

    How to Print Batch Processing Printing is very easy in Capture NX. You Batch Processing is the automatic appli- can select Print from the File Menu at cation of one or more enhancements to any time to print the current image, or a series of images.
  • Page 30 to those images, just as if you had How to Apply a Batch applied them to each image individu- Process With a Settings File ally. Settings Files are often used to apply a unique series of enhancements that can work for a wide variety of images, such as applying a black and white conversion to be used as a basis for an additional enhancement, or...
  • Page 31 images with the NEF file format with of the range of images in the batch. the same name and in the same folder Perform whatever enhancements as the original image. you think appropriate to the image, navigate to the Batch Menu, and select Copy Settings.
  • Page 32 How to Apply a Batch Process in the Browser In addition to being able to apply batch processes within the Editor or using the Batch Process feature, Capture NX offers you the ability to apply a batch process directly within the Browser. Begin by selecting and highlighting any number of images from within the Browser.

  • Page 35: The Browser

    The Browser Capture NX contains a very powerful browser that enables you to browse, sort, and organize your images, as well as to rotate or apply batch processes to multiple images simultaneously. The Browser Inverse Sort Button Folder Menu Label Menu (Page 30) (Page 31) (Page 32)
  • Page 36 the current folder. Please see page 37 for more infor- mation regarding the File Directory Folder Back feature. This button navigates to the last folder Use the Direct Select Tool to select and that you opened within the Browser. move images within the Browser. Use This button is not accessible when the Hand Tool to pan throughout the viewing the first folder of that editing...

  • Page 37: Folder Menu

    Open page 199 for additional information regarding comparing. Select this option to open a folder browser dialog that enables you to Label your images. Please see locate a folder to display within the page 32 for additional information on Browser. labeling images.

  • Page 38: Label Menu

    the Light Table view. The Bird’s Eye View Palette is accessible within this view to The View sub-Menu enables you to see your current location in relation to choose from different methods to view the images on the Light Table. the contents of the current folder.

  • Page 39: Sort Menu

    Sort Menu is essentially the number of the label. For example, you can set an image to Unlabeled with the shortcut of 0. To remove an image’s label, simply highlight it and press the 0 key on your keyboard. The Sort Menu within the Browser Customize Label Names enables you to change the arrangement of your images within the Browser.

  • Page 40: Batch Menu

    Batch Menu The Batch Menu within the Browser contains a duplication of the contents of the Batch Menu from the Menu Bar and enables you to quickly access and apply batch processes to your images. For more information regarding the Batch functionalities of Capture NX, please see page 181.

  • Page 43: File Directory

    File Directory The File Directory displays the files on your hard disk in the same manner as the Operating System, within the Capture NX window, offering file copying and file moving functions. Double-clicking on any folder from within the File Directory will open that folder within the Browser.

  • Page 45: Camera Settings

    Camera Settings The Camera Settings Palette contains a list of all of the pertinent information regarding the current image. Within this Palette, you can see information regard- ing the camera, the time and date the image was shot, the exposure data, as well as the settings made within the camera that affected the current image.

  • Page 47: Iptc

    IPTC The IPTC Palette contains a standardized list of text fields that can be used to indicate the copyright and usage requirements of your images. The contents of the IPTC Palette, named after the committee that created the standard, the International Press Telecommunications Council, was originally designed to simplify and clarify information needed when sharing photographs with different publica- tions.

  • Page 49: The Edit List

    The Edit List The Edit List is the central location for all of the controls provided within Capture NX. The Edit List stores all of the enhancements that have been applied to your image in chronological order. The Edit List can be used as a history that allows you to go back and modify any of the adjustments that you have previously made to your images.

  • Page 50: Base Adjustments Step

    Every enhancement that you apply to Apply Checkbox next to the last step your images within Capture NX will be that you want to reapply. Capture recorded within the Edit List. The Edit NX will automatically apply all of the List contains the following sections: steps between the step you have just modified and the last step that you...

  • Page 51: Camera Adjustments

    (Available for all images) to RAW images do not appear in the menus. Tools specific to RAW images are • Detail Adjustments available in the Base Adjustments Step. (Available for all images) Please note: Any feature applied When you open an NEF file that within the Camera Adjustments is was generated with a camera, both applied to the entire image and cannot...
  • Page 52 WHITE BALANCE New White Balance RAW ONLY The White Balance feature is designed This pull-down Menu provides you with to enable you to change the white a number of controls for setting a new balance that was set within your white balance value.
  • Page 53 Flash This option sets the color Select this option if your image was temperature to 8,000K and is suited shot using a Nikon Speedlight as the for photographs taken in open light source. You can further modify this shade. setting with the Fine Adjustment Slider.
  • Page 54 best used on an image that contains a balance will be set to the average for Gray card illuminated by the main light the selected area. source. You will notice that the Red and Blue To choose a point, select Use Single Point sliders may have moved, which may and click Start.
  • Page 55 Choose from the following list: • Unchanged – This will revert to the saturation set in the camera. • Unchanged – This will revert to the contrast set in the camera. • Moderate • Low Contrast • Normal • Medium Low •...

  • Page 56: Raw Adjustments

    settings, or click Cancel to retain the Click OK to accept the Exposure sharpening set in your camera. Compensation effect, or click Cancel to prevent the Exposure Compensation To revert to the original sharpening effect from changing your image. setting at any point, simply uncheck the Apply Checkbox next to Sharpening.
  • Page 57 uncheck the Apply Checkbox next to and minimized. Hue Adjustment. Please note: The position as well as amount of dust on the low-pass filter COLOR MOIRÉ REDUCTION RAW ONLY may change. It is recommended that The Color Moiré Reduction feature you take reference images regularly and enables you to apply a noise reduction use a reference image that was taken...

  • Page 58: Lens Adjustments

    one Dust Off reference photo within last three locations that was selected the same folder, you will be presented within the Location pull-down Menu. with an options dialog to select which Once you have located the correct Dust image to use. It is recommended that Off reference photo, click OK to apply you select the image that was taken as the Dust Off effect to your image.
  • Page 59 VIGNETTE CONTROL RAW ONLY To apply the Vignette Control feature to The Vignette Control feature is used your image, click on the button next to to correct for loss of marginal lumina- Vignette Control to display the Vignette tion, a phenomenon associated with Control dialog window.

  • Page 60: Light & Color Adjustments

    Include Areas Where There is No The features located within the Light Image Data & Color Adjustments Section are also provided under the Menus, as well as in By default, the Include Areas Where the Adjust & Filter pull-down Menu of There is No Image Data option will be Enhancement Steps of the Edit List.
  • Page 61 D-LIGHTING If you would like to remove the Color Balance effect at any time, simply uncheck the Apply Checkbox next to Color Balance. COLOR BOOSTER The Color Booster enables you to optimally adjust the saturation, or vivid- D-Lighting reveals details in shadows ness, of colors.
  • Page 62 LEVELS & CURVES The LCH Editor controls the Luminosity, The Levels & Curves feature combines two Chroma, and Hue of the active image of the most often used tonal enhancing using individual editor dialogs. The features into one easy-to-use editor. The LCH Editor enables you to individually Levels &...

  • Page 63: Detail Adjustments

    Once you are satisfied with the results For a complete explanation of the of the Photo Effects feature, click on features of the Levels & Curves tool, the OK button. If you want to cancel please see page 137. the Photo Effects feature, click on the Once you are satisfied with the results of Cancel button.
  • Page 64 NOISE REDUCTION UNSHARP MASK The Noise Reduction feature enables you to reduce the effects of digital noise that sometimes appears in images taken with digital cameras. The Unsharp Mask feature increases the To begin using the Noise Reduction apparent sharpness of your image by feature, click on the button next to enhancing the edges of objects in your...

  • Page 65: Enhancement Steps

    Enhancement Steps For a complete explanation of the Unsharp Mask feature, please see page Apply Step Link Icon Apply Step Checkbox Off Checkbox On 153. Once you are satisfied with the results of the Unsharp Mask feature, click on the OK button. If you want to cancel the feature, click on the Cancel button.

  • Page 66: Show/Hide Triangle

    copied, pasted, removed, or added to a Apply Enhancement batch process by clicking and highlight- Checkbox ing the enhancement. Please see the The Apply Enhancement Checkbox section Working with Enhancements enables you to turn on and off on page 66 for additional information the effect of enhancements within regarding copying, pasting, or removing the current step.

  • Page 67: Adjust & Filter Pull-Down Menu

    Adjust & Filter Opacity Mixer Pull-Down Menu The Opacity Mixer provides you with the ability to blend either the current enhancement or all Control Points of the same type with the rest of the image. The Opacity Mixer option becomes avail- able as soon as you add any features from the Adjust, Control Point, or Filter Menus.
  • Page 68 Opacity (Chrominance Channel) Selecting this from the Channels Use this slider to control the amount of pull-down Menu applies the current the current effect on the Chrominance enhancement to all of the channels of portion of the image. Move this slider the image.
  • Page 69 Opacity (Blue Channel) This slider controls the amount of the current effect on the Blue channel of the image. You can move this slider to the left to prevent the current effect from being applied to the Blue channel, or you can reduce the other two sliders to ensure the current effect is being applied to the Blue channel only.

  • Page 70: Selection Notifi Cation Area

    Screen, Overlay, Multiply, and Darken. Feather Control Once you have selected the channel, The Feather Control option is presented the Blending Mode, and Opacity, click whenever a selection has been made OK to accept the Opacity Mixer’s effect. on the image. This feature enables you Click Cancel to prevent the Opacity to soften the edges of selections that Mixer from affecting the image.

  • Page 71: Versions Menu

    LAST SAVED Versions Menu This version becomes available within the Versions Palette as soon as the image is saved. This version provides you with the ability to revert to the last saved step within the versions. Please note: Selecting this option from the Versions Palette will retain all of the changes made since the last save, while selecting Revert from the File Menu...

  • Page 72: Batch Menu

    NEW VERSION . . . series of enhancements. This is especially helpful if you would like to start a new step to quickly paint in a selection with one of the selection tools. : Capture NX will Please note automatically create new steps for you; To create a version, click on the button however, the New Step Button can be...

  • Page 73: Deleting Steps And Enhancements

    This will display the contents of that first select and copy the desired step or step, including the enhancements that enhancement to the clipboard. were applied within the step. Either To do this, first click and highlight the step double-click on the enhancement or or enhancement that you wish to copy.

  • Page 74: Linking Enhancements

    the Batch Menu (either the Batch Please note: You may link any Menu from the main window or the number of enhancements together within Batch Menu within the Edit List). the same step, but please note that the greater the number of enhancements The copied step or enhancement will be that are applied within the same step, the placed after any current enhancements...

  • Page 75: Swapping Enhancements

    Swapping Enhancements Any of the enhancements from the Adjust and Filter Menus may be swapped or substituted for any of the other items located within the Adjust or Filter Menu at any time. Step 1. Click on the Adjust & Filter pull-down menu for the enhancement that you want to swap.

  • Page 77: Toolbar F2 - View Tools

    Toolbar F2 - View Tools These tools enable you to control and change the view of your images. This Toolbar can be viewed and hidden quickly by using the shortcut ‘F2’. The following object types can be selected: • Control Points •...

  • Page 78: Zoom Tool

    Zoom Tool The Zoom Tool enables you to zoom into and out of an image or Browser window. Select this tool and click on the image to zoom into the image. Hold the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key and click to zoom out. Double-click on the icon in order to zoom the current image to 100%.

  • Page 81: Toolbar F3 - Edit

    Toolbar F3 - Edit This Toolbar contains tools that can be used to do very coarse adjustments to your images. This Toolbar can be viewed or hidden quickly by using the shortcut ‘F3’. Multiple images can be rotated simultane- ously by selecting multiple images in the Browser and then clicking on this button.
  • Page 82 vertical and allow the Straighten Tool those numbers into the Straighten to automatically straighten your image. dialog. Positive numbers will rotate The Straighten Tool is not accessible the image clockwise, while negative while working within the Browser. numbers will cause the image to rotate counter-clockwise.

  • Page 83: Crop

    Crop Crop Options Dialog The Crop Tool enables you to remove areas from the margins of your image or At any point in the editing process to change the aspect ratio of your image. you can bring up the Crop Options to The Crop Tool is not accessible while change how the Crop Tool performs.
  • Page 84 Show Crop Grid By checking the Show Crop Grid Checkbox, a grid of nine equally-sized rectangles will be superimposed over the image within the crop rectangle. The Crop Grid is designed to assist you in cropping the image. You can also choose to temporarily superimpose this grid onto your image by holding down the Alt key (Windows) or the Option key (Mac OS) while you...

  • Page 87: Toolbar F4 - Black, White, And Neutral Control Points

    Toolbar F4 – Black, White, and Neutral Control Points This Toolbar contains the Black, White, and Neutral Control Points, which provide a new and exciting way of correcting the tonal range and color of your images. All three of these Control Points enable you to identify and control the tonal value and color of the image and provide you the ability to adjust, move, and remove their effects at any point in the future.

  • Page 88: White Control Point

    White Control Point Neutral Control Point The White Control Point enables you Neutral Control Points enable you to to place a Control Point directly onto correct a color cast in your photograph your image, causing the targeted color by forcing the targeted color to become to become white, which is the first step a defined color or to become neutral.
  • Page 89 : In its default state, the Please note Neutral Control Point will not affect the luminosity of your image; it will only affect the relationship of colors in your image. For additional information regarding the functionality of a Neutral Control Point, please see page 167.

  • Page 91: Based Tools

    Toolbar F5 – U Point technology-based Tools This Toolbar contains U Point technology-based tools that enable you to quickly enhance colors and details in your image. This Toolbar can be viewed and hidden easily by using the shortcut ‘F5’. Color Control Point The Color Control Point represents a Each Color Control Point that is placed unique way of adjusting the color and...

  • Page 92: Red-Eye Control Point

    settings prevents other Control Points Control the Red-Eye Control Point’s from affecting that object. effect by increasing or decreasing the Size slider. For a complete description on the functionality of the Color Control Point, The Hide option completely removes please see page 161. the effect of the Red-Eye Control Point temporarily, enabling you to see the Shortcut:...

  • Page 95: Toolbar F6 - Selection Tools

    Toolbar F6 - Selection Tools This Toolbar contains various selection tools that can be used to selectively apply any of the enhancements available within Capture NX. This Toolbar can be viewed and hidden easily by using the shortcut ‘F6’. These tools are not accessible while working within the Browser.
  • Page 96 Selecting the Minus Brush enables you to remove the current step’s enhance- ments selectively. You can toggle to this tool with the - key after selecting the Brush Tool from the Toolbar, or you can temporarily toggle to this tool by holding down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key while the Plus Brush is selected.

  • Page 97: Brush Options Dialog

    Increase this value and the brush will Brush Options Dialog either add more of the current step’s enhancements to the image when using the Plus Brush or it will remove more of the current step’s enhancements from the image when using the Minus Brush. PRESSURE CONTROLS This pull-down Menu enables you to control the different brush elements using a pressure-...

  • Page 98: Lasso & Marquee Tools

    Lasso & Marquee Tools Hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key while drawing the selec- tion to draw the selection from the Lasso tool center instead of the corner. Polygon Lasso tool Rectangle The Oval Marquee Tool enables you to Marquee tool draw a round selection.

  • Page 99: Selection Gradient

    To apply a gradient, begin by clicking Lasso & Marquee and dragging a line on your image. Options Dialog The spot at which you first click will define the start of the gradient; the spot at which you let go of the mouse will define the end of the gradient.

  • Page 100: Fill / Remove Tools

    sent the percent of opacity, and allow and then clicking on either the Fill or you to set the maximum, the minimum, Remove buttons, the effect will not be and the midpoint values of the gradi- completely filled or cleared from the ent.

  • Page 103: The Bird's Eye

    The Bird’s Eye The Bird’s Eye Palette enables you to view a portion of the image which is visible in the active image window. This is especially helpful when you are zoomed into your image and you cannot see the entire image in the active image window. A smaller version of your entire image is The Bird’s Eye Palette is also available displayed in the Bird’s Eye Palette, and...

  • Page 105: Photo Info

    Photo Info The Photo Info Palette provides you with a real-time display of important informa- tion about your image. Within the Photo Info display you have access to both a live histogram and Watch Points from the current image. Histogram The Histogram Palette displays a real- time updated histogram of the distri- If the Photo Info Palette is collapsed,...
  • Page 106 Double-Threshold within the histogram with the Channels pull-down Menu. By default, all three channels (Red, Green, and Blue) are displayed. When all three channels are displayed, individual Red, Green, and Blue histograms are superimposed over one another. Where the individual histograms overlap, secondary colors are displayed.

  • Page 107: Watch Points

    far enough so that a few pixels appear, Point you wish to remove. and then place the white or black point Color Model at the corresponding area that contains a cluster of pixels in close proximity. This pull-down Menu enables you to select the color model used to describe Watch Points the colors within the Watch Point...
  • Page 108 Please note: Values for the different channels range from 0 to 255, with values for 12 and 16-bit images being scaled to fit into this range.

  • Page 111: The Image Window

    The Image Window Image Windows are the frames that contain your images and provide you with important data which can help you enhance the image. Image Windows are displayed as long as Capture NX is not in Full Screen mode. If you cannot see the Image Window around your image, simply exit the Full Screen Mode by selecting Full Screen from the View Menu or by pressing the F key.

  • Page 112: Soft Proof

    Each Image Window displays important Soft Proof information about the image: Image Name This is the file name you have given the current image. Zoom Ratio The Zoom Ratio is the current zoom ratio of the image. A value of 100% means you are looking at the actual image data, while anything lower than The Soft Proof function enables you...
  • Page 113 printer profiles, benefit from different profile. It is recommended that you use rendering intents. Experiment with the Absolute Colorimetric if you want to different rendering intents within your proof your images for a specific print workflow to find the option that works device other than your printer, since this best.

  • Page 115: The Color Picker

    The Color Picker The Color Picker is available from a number of enhancements and provides you with the ability to select any color within the RGB, HSB, or LAB color spaces. Additionally, you are provided with swatches as well as memory colors to provide you with preselected colors.
  • Page 116 Within the Color Picker you are You can change the targeted color by provided with the following controls: entering different values directly into the RGB Selection Boxes. Color Wheel HSB Selection Boxes The Color Wheel enables you to select the targeted hue for the color. When The HSB Selection Boxes display the you click within the Color Wheel, the current color in Hue, Saturation,...
  • Page 117 selected by the Color Eyedropper. Swatches Show/Hide Triangle Clicking on the button will display the Swatches section of the Color Picker, which contains a selection of preset swatches and four Memory Color Ranges. Swatches Section The Swatches section contains two sections that provide you with additional control in selecting a color to use with the current enhancement.

  • Page 119: File Menu

    File Menu Open With... The Open With command enables you to open the current image with all of the current enhancements in a separate application. You can select the alterna- tive application that will open the image within the application preferences. Open Folder in Browser...

  • Page 120: Open Recent

    Open Recent This color model saves your image This area displays the most recent information with Red, Green, and Blue ten images opened with Capture color channels, and is recommended for NX. Simply click on any of the items most images. displayed in this list to open it within Capture NX.

  • Page 121: Save As

    Shortcut: unless your printer requests that you do not embed the color profile in the image. Ctrl + S (Windows) Command + S (Mac OS) JPEG Save As..The Save As feature enables you to save the current image into a different file, with the ability to change the location, the file name, and file extension.

  • Page 122: Revert

    None printer requests that you do not embed This option does not compress the the color profile in the image. image information. ADVANCED The Advanced Show/Hide Triangle This option employs a lossless compres- provides with access to the Quality sion scheme based on the LZW compres- Slider.

  • Page 123: Print

    paper source, and orientation, as well Browser and selecting print, you can as other options which depend on create Print Packages, contact sheets, the printer and operating system. It is or print multiple images in a batch. recommended that you open and adjust After selecting Print from the File the settings within this dialog prior to Menu, the Print dialog will appear.

  • Page 124: Meta Data

    PRINT INFORMATION Generally these options are only appli- cable when you have selected multiple The options within the Print Information images from the Browser to print. section place specific information regarding your image beneath each Copies image. You can choose from three This option enables you to select the different sets of information: number of copies of the current pages...
  • Page 125 Click on the Change button to adjust Packages. Select the desired package the settings. from the pop-up Menu and the Print Preview will be updated accordingly. Page Layout Tab SELECT PICTURE SIZE This mode of printing enables you to set up different Print Packages based on the desired size of the images.

  • Page 126: Color Management Tab

    achieve a borderless print. Color Management Tab Original Image: 8” x 12” The Color Management tab enables you to set the Color Management options for the images when they are printed. The settings within the Color Management tab default to the settings indicated within the Capture NX Preferences.
  • Page 127 INTENT produce are shifted to the closest color The Intent option lets you choose one of possible. This option preserves as many four different rendering intents to apply natural colors as possible and is often the to your image. The different rendering best choice for printing photographs.

  • Page 128: Exit

    Exit Select this option to quit out of Capture Shortcut: Ctrl + Q (Windows) Command + Q (Mac OS) Please note : Within the Mac OS, Exit can be found under the Capture NX Menu.

  • Page 131: Edit Menu

    Edit Menu Shortcut: Ctrl + Z (Windows) Command + Z (Mac OS) Redo The Redo feature becomes available after the undo command has been used and enables you to reapply anything that was undone with the undo command. Shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + Z (Windows) Command + Shift + Z (Mac OS) The Cut command clears an object and places it within Capture NX’s clipboard,...

  • Page 132: Paste

    Delete clipboard, making that object accessible to paste. The Copy command can be The Delete command removes the used on the following objects: currently selected object. The Delete • Text within a text box command can be performed on the •...

  • Page 133: Flip

    Flip Please see page 75 for a description Use the Flip command to mirror the of the functionality of the rotate and image across one of two axes: straighten features. Size / Resolution • Choose Horizontal to mirror the image across the vertical axis. •...

  • Page 134: Change The File Size (Image Size)

    mation in order to match the new size (width and height) into the dialog of the image. windows. It is recommended that you enter the same size into both windows, Change the File Size based on the longest side of the image. (Image Size) For instance, if you want to resize a folder of images of varying dimensions...

  • Page 135: General

    D1X RAW DEFAULT General Use this option to set the default size of NEF images taken with the D1X. This option utilizes a unique resizing algorithm to resize D1X images to a 10 Megapixel equivalent image. DEFAULT UNITS Use this option to set the unit of measurement either to Inches or Millimeters.

  • Page 136: Color Management

    maintain the relationships of colors so Color Management that the printed image appears natural to the human eye. While this intent maintains the relationships of colors, the actual color values will be changed. Saturation The Saturation rendering intent attempts to produce highly saturated colors, but it may not produce accurate colors in a photograph.

  • Page 137: Levels & Grid

    USE BLACK POINT COMPENSATION CMYK SEPARATION PROFILE Check this box to set the default state This preference enables you to set the of the various color management default separation profile to be used options throughout Capture NX to when saving images as TIFF in CMYK. utilize Black Point Compensation.
  • Page 138 BLACK AUTO-CONTRAST CLIP the colors of each pixel before display- Set this number to determine the percent- ing the result. This option is recom- age of the darkest pixels to exclude when mended for higher resolution images. using the Black Point Dropper within the COLOR Levels &...

  • Page 139: Cache Settings

    interacted with most recently will open Cache Settings the fastest. It is important to note that no unique information is stored within these cache files, and if a cache file is replaced, your image file will not lose any information or quality. It will simply require additional processing in order to open, which will take additional time.
  • Page 140 LIMIT CACHE SIZE Check this box in order to set a limit to the amount of space Capture NX will use for cache files. You can then use the slider to change the amount of space available for the Capture NX cache system. Next to the slider you will see the amount of space currently allocated to the Capture NX cache system, along with an approxi-...

  • Page 143: Adjust Menu

    Adjust Menu levels (brightness), and color balance to make maximum use of the tone range and color gamut offered by a particu- lar output device, such as a printer or monitor. The Levels & Curves feature provides you with controls to make tonal adjust- ments to specific portions of the active image’s tone range for either the entire image or to specific color channels,...
  • Page 144 Show Before/After Channel Selector Histogram White Output Slider Auto Contrast Button White Point Dropper Neutral Point Dropper Black Point Dropper Add Anchor Point Reset Current Channel Black Output Slider Reset All Channels Temporary Cancel Button Black Point Mid Point White Point different channels quickly by using the a bar graph of the total number of following keyboard shortcuts:...
  • Page 145 within the Levels & Curves editor. the entire possible range of values. It is recommended that you move the White You can begin to modify the lightness Point Slider all the way to the left to of your image either by moving the match up with the right-most informa- Black, White, and Mid Point Sliders or tion from the displayed histogram.
  • Page 146 slider down, you darken the lightest WHITE POINT DROPPER luminosity level in the image. These two Clicking on this button will change sliders are often used if the darkest and the mouse cursor into a White Point lightest colors should not be black and Dropper cursor.

  • Page 147: Contrast / Brightness

    setting a neutral point in your image, RESET CURRENT CHANNEL try using the Neutral Control Point Clicking on this button will reset only Handle from the Control Point Menu. the current channel to the default For more information on Neutral values.

  • Page 148: Auto Levels

    to produce quick contrast or brightness Auto Levels effects that you can paint in selectively using one of the selective tools. Use the included controls to adjust your image. CONTRAST The Contrast Slider provides you with the ability to affect the contrast of your image.

  • Page 149: D-Lighting

    ADVANCED D-Lighting The Advanced method begins with the same result as the Auto method but provides you with two sliders to control the result: Correct Contrast D-Lighting reveals details in shadows Use the Correct Contrast slider to either and highlights, correcting for underexpo- increase or decrease the amount of sure, backlighting, or insufficient flash, contrast that is being applied to your...
  • Page 150 Color Boost Slider a better quality enhancement than the Move the Color Boost slider to the right Faster method. to increase saturation throughout the Shadow Adjustment Slider entire image. Move the Shadow Adjustment slider to BETTER QUALITY the right to bring out additional detail in the shadows of the active image.

  • Page 151: Color

    Color this Luminosity Histogram enables you to control the relationship of input luminos- ity values to output luminosity values. The LCH Editor enables you to individu- The Luminosity Histogram represents ally control the Luminosity, the Color a bar graph of the total number of Lightness, Chroma, and Hue of the pixels that appear at different levels of active image using individual editor...
  • Page 152 Black and White output sliders darkest value that can be displayed in a digital file. The Black and White output sliders enable you to set the maximum and White Point Slider minimum brightness levels of the image. Move the White Point Slider to the By dragging the Black Output Slider up, left to set all luminosity values from you lighten the darkest luminosity level...
  • Page 153 values. Curve, superimposed above the Hue Map, can be used to isolate and adjust Reset All Channels the lightness of individual colors. Click on this button to reset all editors Clicking on the curve will create an within the LCH editor to their default anchor point.
  • Page 154 hide the effect of the Color Lightness Anchor points can be removed by editor. simply clicking and dragging the anchor point off the Hue Map. CHROMA Use the Width slider to increase or decrease the range of similar colors affected by the color identified with the Chroma anchor point.
  • Page 155 are provided a Hue Curve that can be Reset All Channels used to isolate and adjust the Hue of Click on this button to reset all editors individual colors. within the LCH editor to their default values. Clicking on the curve will create an anchor point.

  • Page 156: Color Balance

    BRIGHTNESS Reset All Channels Adjust this slider to the left to decrease Click on this button to reset all editors the brightness of the entire image or to within the LCH editor to their default the right to increase the brightness of values.

  • Page 157: Color Booster

    Shortcut: The Auto button within Please note: Ctrl + B (Windows) the Color Booster is only available when Command + B (Mac OS) selecting the Color Booster from the Color & Light Adjustments sub-step of Color Booster the Base Adjustments step. Saturation / Warmth The Color Booster enables you to optimally adjust the saturation, or...

  • Page 158: Focus

    RADIUS the image. Moving the slider to the left causes all colors throughout the image The Radius slider controls the intensity to become cooler, or bluer. Moving the of the blur being applied to the image. slider to the right will warm all of the OPACITY colors within the image to contain more red-orange.

  • Page 159: Unsharp Mask

    RADIUS within your image. The Radius controls the size of the : It is recommended that Please note edge to display in the resulting image. you zoom your image to 100% while Settings for this slider are dependant determining the amount of sharpening on the size of the image, so a radius to apply to your image.

  • Page 160: Correct

    Correct THRESHOLD The Threshold slider is designed to Color Aberration Control limit where sharpening is applied with the current settings. The higher the threshold setting, the less that objects in the image will be sharpened. This slider works to indicate how much of a difference between one pixel and its neighbors is necessary in order to apply sharpening.

  • Page 161: Distortion Control

    reduces cyan fringes. To reduce pincushion distortion, drag the Control Slider to the right. BLUE — YELLOW To reduce barrel distortion, drag the The Blue — Yellow Slider contracts and Control Slider to the left. expands the blue channel to reduce When correcting a significant amount either blue or yellow fringing.

  • Page 162: Noise Reduction

    Noise Reduction pull-down Menu. Select Faster for faster processing or Better Quality for a more precise noise reduction effect. EDGE NOISE REDUCTION When you check the Edge Noise Reduction checkbox, Capture NX will reduce noise artifacts around the edges of objects within the image, resulting in more distinct outlines.

  • Page 163: Color Profi Le

    Color Profile ent methods of altering the profile to color manage your image. Apply Profile Choose Apply Profile to assign a profile to the current image. This option is most often used when you would like to assign an input profile, such as a profile you created for your camera, to the image.

  • Page 164: Convert To Profi Le

    device’s color profile. Convert to Profile To convert your image’s profile to a different output profile, first select the target profile from the Profile pull-down Menu. You are then provided with two additional controls to affect how the image is converted: INTENT The Intent option lets you choose between four different rendering intents...
  • Page 165 Relative Colorimetric When you have finished setting the This rendering intent maps the white parameters for the Color Profile dialog, point of the image to the white point click on the OK button. To prevent any defined by the printer profile and repro- changes from being applied by the duces accurately all of the colors that Color Profile dialog, click on the cancel...

  • Page 167: Control Points Menu

    Control Points Menu values of that slider within the Color Control Point dialog. Color Control Points… The Color Control Points represent a unique way of adjusting the color and light in an image. Each Color Control Point enables you to perform advanced color changes in a selective fashion, without the need to create selections or masks.

  • Page 168: Show Selection

    The RGB Mode provides you with Size, Red, Green, and Blue sliders. The All mode provides you with Size, Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, Red, Green, Blue, and Warmth sliders. Color Picker Swatch The Color Picker Swatch enables you to select any color from the Color Picker. The object targeted by the current Color Control Point is then changed to the color identified with the Color Picker.

  • Page 169: Black Control Point

    control-clicking (Mac OS) the Color Basic - The Basic method is the fastest Control Point and selecting Show and most direct method to apply the Selection. handles from the current step to your image. This method is recommended Hide for web graphics and illustrations. The Hide option completely removes Normal - The Normal method provides the effect of the Color Control Point...
  • Page 170 Black points are normally set on what the Luminosity to controlling the values should be the darkest point of the for red, green, and blue separately. You image and are used to establish one can also hide the Black Control Point or end of the dynamic range of the image.

  • Page 171: White Control Point

    White Control Point… Black Control Point and three entry boxes in the Black Point dialog, repre- The White Control Point enables you senting the red, green, and blue values to place a Control Point directly on of the black point. your image and to cause the targeted object not only to become white, but Hide...
  • Page 172 After placing the White Control Point, you can control the luminosity of the white point either with the slider Once you have opened the Advanced provided or by entering a luminosity area of the White Point Dialog Box, value into the White Point Dialog Box. you can change between controlling A Reset button is provided that enables the luminosity and controlling the...

  • Page 173: Neutral Control Point

    Control Point and selecting Hide. RGB Mode Each step may contain up to one Black and one White Control Point, while allowing for an unlimited number of Neutral Control Points. Neutral Control Point… The RGB Mode of the White Control Point enables you to set the individual red, green, and blue values of the target white.
  • Page 174 a neutral item, such as a gray card. By selecting an object that is intended to be neutral, Capture NX is able to calcu- late the difference between that object and the color that is currently repre- senting that object. The Neutral Control Point will attempt to remove the differ- ence in color from the targeted object as well as from the entire image.
  • Page 175 tion that the slider is moved. By increas- ing the Red slider, for example, you are indicating that the object should contain more red than it currently displays. By increasing the Red slider you will add red to the entire image. One unique feature of the Neutral Control Points is that multiple Neutral Points can be utilized in the same...
  • Page 176 Changing this value when only one Show Selection Neutral Control Point is applied will The Show selection checkbox enables affect the mid-tones throughout the you to see where the current Color image. When more than one Neutral Control Point is affecting the image. Control Point is applied to the same Areas inked in white are being affected image within the same step, any...

  • Page 177: Red-Eye Control Point

    Red-Eye Control Point… Reset The Reset function within the Control The Red-Eye Control Point enables you Points Menu enables you to reset the to manually remove the red-eye effect currently selected Control Points to often caused by flash photography. their default states. Simply select the Red-Eye Control Point and place it on an eye that has red-eye.

  • Page 179: Filter Menu

    Filter Menu Enhance Photo Photo Effects… The Photo Effects feature enables you to take more creative control of your image. With this tool you can convert your image to a Black and White, Sepia, Enhance Photo is the default method or Tinted image.

  • Page 180: Black & White

    removes red from the image, which will Black & White cause the image to become more cyan. Adjusting this slider to the right adds red to the image, removing cyan from the image. MAGENTA — GREEN The Magenta — Green Slider enables you to shift the colors of your image from magenta to green.
  • Page 181 you to alter the black and white effect Sepia on your image. When you move this slider to the right, objects that contain magenta become lighter, while objects containing green become darker. Moving this slider to the left causes objects that contain magenta to become darker and objects containing green to become brighter.
  • Page 182 Moving this slider to the left removes Tinted green from the filter, causing the filter and the image to become more magenta. Adjusting this slider to the right adds green to the filter and the image. YELLOW — BLUE The Yellow — Blue Slider enables you to control the amount of yellow or blue in the filter being used.

  • Page 183: Add Grain/Noise

    effect from being applied to your Add Grain/Noise… image. Contrast: Color Range… The Add Grain / Noise feature enables you to add the stylistic effect of either grain or noise to your image. The grain feature emulates different sizes of film The Contrast: Color Range feature grain within your image, while the enables you to control the contrast...

  • Page 184: Colorize

    CONTRAST selective tools in a step that has not The Contrast Slider controls the amount already had an enhancement applied of contrast that is affected between to it. the color selected in the Spectrum Within the Colorize enhancement you slider and that color’s complementary can select the color to be applied to color.
  • Page 185 FILTER COLOR The Filter Color Slider enables you to choose the hue of the filter that is used to convert the image from color to black and white. FILTER STRENGTH Use the Filter Strength Slider to control the intensity of the filter used in the black and white conversion.

  • Page 187: Batch Menu

    Batch Menu group of images, or back into the same image. To copy the entire series of settings from the current image, simply select this option from one of the Batch Menu options. To copy selected settings from the Edit List, click to highlight a specific step or enhancement.

  • Page 188: Save Settings

    settings into the current image either in within the Save Settings dialog that you the Editor or in the Browser, or you can create Settings Files that will be used paste settings into a series of images for batch processes in the future. selected within the Browser.

  • Page 189: Load Settings

    the Load settings sub-menu. Batch Process Alert Box If you save only one enhancement into a Settings File, Capture NX will place that Settings File into a folder named after the enhancement selected. If you would like to place that file in a differ- ent location, click on the Browse button and navigate to a different folder.

  • Page 190: Processing Queue

    SHOW DIFFERENCES possibilities from within the Settings File, or to delete that step entirely. The Show Differences dialog always displays one additional step beyond the steps available within the target image. You can use this additional step to append one of the enhancements to the end of the Edit List.
  • Page 191 CLEAR FROM LIST you are presented with the queue of images still waiting to be processed, button enables you Clear From List along with a log that contains a list of to clear the highlighted image from the all of the images that have already been Queue window.

  • Page 192: File Naming Dialog

    to cause the Processing Queue window Please see page 186 for more infor- to close when the batch process has mation on the File Naming Dialog. completed. Use Source File Name NOTIFY WHEN COMPLETED Select Use Source File Name to save the This option will create a system beep processed image with original file name.

  • Page 193: Batch Options

    New Name Manage Settings Files This option will enable you to type in a new name to enter at the beginning of the new file name. None This option will prevent a prefix from being added to the beginning of the new file name.

  • Page 194: Batch Process

    Include Subfolders Add feature, the Settings File that you selected will automatically be copied to Check the Include Subfolders checkbox the Settings folder of Capture NX. if you would like to process the contents of the folder along with the DELETE contents of any folders within the The Delete button will delete the...
  • Page 195 Replace Current Settings Rename The Replace Current Settings option By selecting Rename, Capture NX will will apply the enhancements from the rename the images using the naming Settings File to all images, and will system found with the File Naming overwrite any enhancements that may window.

  • Page 196: Watched Folder

    WATCHED FOLDER this setting to embed the current profile in the image while saving. Browse After you have identified all of the param- Click on the Browse button to locate eters for the batch process, click Start. the folder that you would like Capture This will call up the Processing Queue and NX to monitor for new images to apply enable you to begin the Batch Process.
  • Page 197 Settings File to all images, and will you can manually identify the desti- overwrite any enhancements that may nation folder you wish to use for the already be contained with the images images after the batch process. Click affected by the Batch Process. on the browse button to identify the location to place the processed images.
  • Page 198 use the setting identified here, but any images that originated as 8-bit files will remain as 8-bit files and will not be converted to 16-bit if the 16-bit option is selected. COMPRESSION The Compression pull-down Menu enables you to choose what type of compression to apply to the images.

  • Page 201: View Menu

    View Menu Neutral, Color, or Red-Eye Control Points. By selecting this option, all Control Points will be hidden so that you can see the image without any of the Control Point icons appearing on top of the image. Show Selection The Show Selection option enables you to display the Selection for the current Show All Control Points...

  • Page 202: Show Grid

    Show Grid areas that contain maximum values will be displayed within the image window when this option is enabled. That is, only the pixels that contain a value of 255 will be displayed for each of the three channels. The resulting image will contain white, primary, and secondary colors only.

  • Page 203: Show Lost Shadows

    Shortcut: Shift + H This area contains values Black of 0 for the Red, Green, Show Lost Shadows and Blue channels. This area contains values Blue of 0 for the Red and Green channels. This area contains values Green of 0 for the Red and Blue channels.

  • Page 204: View At 100

    Zoom In not been enhanced. Using the Show Focus Area feature after the image has Select this option to zoom one step into been rotated, straightened, cropped, the active image. or after applying the Fisheye Lens or Shortcut: Distortion Correction features may result in the focus area being displayed Ctrl + ‘+’...

  • Page 205: Hide Palettes

    Hide Palettes Select this feature to quickly hide all of the palettes in the work area. Shortcut: Tab key Compare The three different Compare modes of Capture NX provide you with different options for comparing images. The first While comparing the images you can two options, Compare in Editor and click on an image and label it using one Compare in Browser, are only accessible...

  • Page 206: Compare In Editor

    Compare in Editor Compare With Original Use this option to compare two different Use this option to compare the origi- images in the Editor. Select two differ- nal with the current state of the active ent images in the Browser and select image within the Edit mode.

  • Page 209: Window Menu

    Window Menu Cascade The Cascade option resizes and arranges all of the currently opened image windows over the top of one another so that each window is the same size and all of the windows appear within the space available on your monitor. Tile The Tile option resizes and arranges all of...

  • Page 210: Reset Palette Location

    Edit List the currently open image windows so that they all appear on the screen in a grid. Selecting the Edit List option from the Reset Palette Location Window Menu will show the Edit List. If the Edit List Palette is not visible, it This option resets the location and will make the Edit List Palette visible.

  • Page 213: Help Menu

    Help Menu Technical Support The Technical Support option will launch your Internet browser and provide you with links to the different Technical Support options available for Capture NX. Follow one of those links to reach the online technical support options. : Clicking on one of Please note these options will require an Internet...

  • Page 214: About Capture Nx

    About Capture NX The About Capture NX option shows you the version number of Capture NX, which can be helpful when contacting technical support. : Within the Mac OS, Please note the About Capture NX option can be found under the Capture window.

  • Page 217: Appendix: Short-Cuts

    Appendix: Short-cuts Tool Windows Macintosh Keyboard Modifier Direct Select (arrow) Holding down the Ctrl (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) key while dragging an image in the Browser copies the image. Pan (hand) Spacebar while working with any other tool temporarily switches that tool to the Hand Tool. Zoom Control + Spacebar (Windows) or Command + Spacebar (Mac OS) while in any other tool will temporar- ily turn to the zoom in tool.
  • Page 218 Holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while working with the Plus Gradient temporarily turns the gradient into a Minus Gradient. Minus Gradient Holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while working with the Minus Gradient temporarily turns the gradient into a Plus Gradient. Plus Lasso Holding down Alt (Option) (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while working with the Plus Lasso temporar- ily turns the lasso into a Minus Lasso.
  • Page 219 Apply Labels - Tag 4 Apply Labels - Tag 5 Apply Labels - Tag 6 Apply Labels - Tag 7 Apply Labels - Tag 8 Apply Labels - Tag 9 Apply Labels- Remove Label Sort By Label - Label 1 Shift + 1 Shift + 1 Sort By Label - Label 2...

  • Page 220: Appendix: Supplied Color Profiles

    1.2 Profiles with a Gamma Value of 1. Standard RGB Profiles 2.2 sRGB: NKsRGB.icm (Windows)/ Supplied in Capture NX Nikon sRGB 4.0.0.3001 (Macintosh) 1.1 Profiles with a Gamma Value This RGB profile is used in the major- of 1.8 Apple RGB: NKApple.icm ity of Windows monitors.
  • Page 221 Adobe RGB (1998): NKAdobe. chromaticity (x, y) graph. The greater icm (Windows)/ Nikon Adobe RGB the area enclosed by the triangle that (1998) 4.0.0.3000 (Macintosh) represents the color-space profile, the A color-space profile defined in Adobe wider its gamut.
  • Page 222 Adobe Photoshop profi le sRGB (Nikon sRGB 4.0.0.3001) sRGB Apple RGB (Nikon Apple RGB 4.0.0.3000) Apple RGB Color Match RGB (Nikon Color Match RGB 4.0.0.3000) Color Match RGB Bruce RGB (Nikon Bruce RGB 4.0.0.3000) – NTSC (1953) (Nikon NTSC (1953) 4.0.0.3000)

  • Page 223: Appendix: Advisories & Additional Notices

    Make Backup Copies Install desired updates. To personalize your list Make backup copies of important of Nikon digital products or to view a pictures before processing. Nikon will list of the installed software supported not be held liable for damages or lost...

  • Page 224: White Balance

    Privacy White Balance “Mired” Information provided by the user as part of this service will not be given to third Any given change in color temperature parties without the user’s permission. produces a greater difference in color at low color temperatures than it would at Installation higher color temperatures.

  • Page 225: Exposure Compensation

    Color Mode Exposure Compensation Color Mode Highlights in images saved in Nikon Capture 4.4 or earlier with a negative Use this instead of embedded profile value selected for exposure compen- is selected in the Color Management sation may display differently when tab of the Preferences dialog, the opened in Capture NX.

  • Page 226: Vignette Control

    Image Dust Off priority auto (A) Image Dust Off only affects relatively d) Aperture: choose the minimum featureless areas of the image. aperture (largest f/-number) e) Focus: choose manual focus and set Reusing Dust Off settings focus to infinity Before pasting or loading Image Dust 3) Take a photograph Off settings for another image, be sure With the lens about 4 inches (10 cm)

  • Page 227: Opening Images

    Images saved in Capture NX can not be viewed on a camera. Versions Versions for NEF images are saved NEF Files (Nikon Capture 4 or with the image and recalled whenever Earlier) the image is opened in Capture NX. NEF files created with Capture NX...

  • Page 228: File Naming Conventions

    : The “NKCMYK. Please note printer and paper size settings when icm” (Windows) and “Nikon CMYK you click the Print button to begin 4.0.0.3000” (Macintosh) CMYK profiles printing, a message will be displayed...
  • Page 229 The Curve Edit Display RGB color-space profiles. The Although values for input and output “NKCMYK.icm” (Windows) and “Nikon in the Curves palette range from zero CMYK 4.0.0.3000” (Macintosh) CMYK to 255 (eight-bit precision, familiar to...
  • Page 230 (no input) is assigned a value of while Digital DEE settings saved with zero. Output is calculated by raising NEF images in earlier versions of Nikon input to a power that is the inverse of Capture 4 are lost when these images the gamma value (output = input (1/ γ)).

  • Page 231: Error Messages

    Unsharp Mask Batch Processing Unsharp Mask Before Using Batch Processing Unsharp Mask sharpens edges without affecting color balance by making To ensure that desired results are adjustments only to luminosity (bright- achieved, we recommend processing ness). The effect is the same as a test image before beginning batch performing Unsharp Mask with the processing.

  • Page 233: Index

    Index Batch Processing ......23, 225 Bird’s Eye ........13, 97, 204 About Capture NX ......... 208 Black & White ........174 Add Grain/Noise ........177 Black and White Conversion ....178 Adjust & Filter Pull-Down Menu ....61 Black Control Point ......81, 163 Adjust Menu .........
  • Page 234 Conflict management ....188, 190 Filter Menu ........... 173 Contents ..........207 Fisheye Lens ..........53 Contrast / Brightness ......141 Fit Photo ..........128 Contrast: Color Range ......177 Fit to Screen ......... 198 Control Points Menu ......161 Flip ............
  • Page 235 NEF ............21 Neutral Control Point ...... 82, 167 New Step Button ........66 Saturation ..........49 Nikon Message Center Agent ....217 Saturation / Warmth ......151 Noise Reduction ......58, 156 Save ..........114, 221 JPEG ......... 115, 221 NEF ...........
  • Page 236 Load Settings ........24 Paste Settings ........25 Versions ..........221 Save Settings ........24 Versions Menu ........65 Sharpening ..........49 View at 100% ........198 Short-cuts ..........211 View Menu ........... 195 Show All Control Points ......195 Vignette Control ......

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